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Oleg the Wise, the Glossary

Oleg (Ѡлегъ, Ольгъ; Helgi; died 912), also known as Oleg the Wise, was a Varangian prince of the Rus' who became prince of Kiev, and laid the foundations of the Kievan Rus' state.^[1]

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10th-century princes from Kievan Rus'
Deaths due to snake bites
Princes of Kiev
Princes of Novgorod
Rurikids
Varangians

A Viking Saga

A Viking Saga is a 2008 film about the early life and rise to power of Oleg of Novgorod, the Rus prince who attacked and conquered Kiev in AD 882 from the Rus war-lords Askold and Dir, before moving his capital there.

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Abbasid Caliphate

The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (translit) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Aleksey Shakhmatov

Aleksey Aleksandrovich Shakhmatov (Алексе́й Алекса́ндрович Ша́хматов, – 16 August 1920) was a Russian philologist and historian credited with laying the foundations for the science of textology.

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Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.

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Anatoly Novoseltsev

Anatoly Petrovich Novoseltsev (Анатолий Петрович Новосельцев; 26 July 1933, Irkutsk, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – 12 September 1995 Moscow, Russia) was a Russian orientalist who brought to light and translated into Russian a slew of obscure Persian and Arab documents relating to the early history of Kievan Rus'.

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Askold and Dir

Askold and Dir (Haskuldr or Hǫskuldr and Dyr or Djur in Old Norse; died in 882), mentioned in both the Primary Chronicle, the Novgorod First Chronicle, and the Nikon Chronicle, were the earliest known rulers of Kiev.

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Árpád

Árpád (845 – 907) was the head of the confederation of the Magyar tribes at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries. Oleg the Wise and Árpád are 9th-century monarchs in Europe.

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Örvar-Oddr

Örvar-Oddr (Ǫrvar-Oddr, "Arrow-Odd" or "Arrow's Point") is a legendary hero about whom an anonymous Icelander wrote a fornaldarsaga in the latter part of the 13th century.

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Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.

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Black Grave

The Black Grave (translit) is the largest burial mound (kurgan) in Chernihiv, Ukraine.

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Caspian expeditions of the Rus'

The Caspian expeditions of the Rus' were military raids undertaken by the Rus' between the late 9th century and 1041 on the Caspian Sea shores, of what are nowadays Iran, Dagestan, and Azerbaijan. Oleg the Wise and Caspian expeditions of the Rus' are Varangians.

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Caucasian Albania

Caucasian Albania is a modern exonym for a former state located in ancient times in the Caucasus, mostly in what is now Azerbaijan (where both of its capitals were located).

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Chernihiv

Chernihiv (Чернігів,; Chernigov) is a city and municipality in northern Ukraine, which serves as the administrative center of Chernihiv Oblast and Chernihiv Raion within the oblast.

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Constantin Zuckerman

Constantin Zuckerman (born 1957) is a French historian and Professor of Byzantine studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris.

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Constantinople

Constantinople (see other names) became the capital of the Roman Empire during the reign of Constantine the Great in 330.

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Crusader Kings III

Crusader Kings III is a grand strategy role-playing video game set in the Middle Ages, developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive as a sequel to Crusader Kings (2004) and Crusader Kings II (2012).

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Danila Kozlovsky

Danila Valeryevich Kozlovsky (Данила Валерьевич Козловский; born 3 May 1985) is a Russian actor and director.

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David Christian (historian)

David Gilbert Christian (born June 30, 1946), a historian and scholar of Russian history, has become notable for teaching and promoting the emerging discipline of Big History.

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David Samuel Margoliouth

David Samuel Margoliouth, FBA (17 October 1858, in London – 22 March 1940, in London) was an English orientalist.

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De Administrando Imperio

("On the Governance of the Empire") is the Latin title of a Greek-language work written by the 10th-century Eastern Roman Emperor Constantine VII.

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Dnieper

The Dnieper, also called Dnepr or Dnipro, is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea.

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Docudrama

Docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of television and film, which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events.

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Douglas Morton Dunlop

Douglas Morton Dunlop (1909–1987) was a renowned British orientalist and scholar of Islamic and Eurasian history.

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Drevlians

The Drevlians, Derevlians or Derevlianians (Drevliany or label, Drevlyane) were a tribe of East Slavs between the 6th and the 10th centuries, which inhabited the territories of Polesia and right-bank Ukraine, west of the eastern Polans and along the lower reaches of the rivers Teteriv, Uzh, Ubort, and Stsviha.

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Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture

The Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture (EIEC) is an encyclopedia of Indo-European studies and the Proto-Indo-Europeans.

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Erik Holmey

Erik Holmey (born 25 February 1942) is a Danish actor.

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Franco Nero

Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero (born 23 November 1941), known professionally as Franco Nero, is an Italian actor, producer, and director.

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George Vernadsky

George Vernadsky (Гео́ргий Влади́мирович Верна́дский; August 20, 1887 – June 12, 1973) was a Russian-born American historian and an author of numerous books on Russian history.

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Gosizdat

State Publishing House of the RSFSR (Russian: Госуда́рственное изда́тельство РСФСР), also known as Gosizdat (Госиздат), was a publishing house founded in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic on 21 May 1919.

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Grand Prince of Kiev

The Grand Prince of Kiev (sometimes grand duke) was the title of the monarch of Kievan Rus', residing in Kiev (modern Kyiv) from the 10th to 13th centuries.

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Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin

The Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin, also known as the Hungarian conquest or the Hungarian land-taking, was a series of historical events ending with the settlement of the Hungarians in Central Europe in the late 9th and early 10th century.

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Igor of Kiev

Igor (Игорь; Ingvarr; – 945) was Prince of Kiev from 912 to 945. Oleg the Wise and Igor of Kiev are 10th-century princes from Kievan Rus', princes of Kiev, Rurikids and Varangians.

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Isle of Sheppey

The Isle of Sheppey is an island off the northern coast of Kent, England, neighbouring the Thames Estuary, centred from central London.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Ken Vedsegaard

Ken Vedsegaard (born 14 October 1972) is a Danish actor.

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Khagan

Khagan or Qaghan (Mongolian:; or Khagan; 𐰴𐰍𐰣) is a title of imperial rank in Turkic, Mongolic, and some other languages, equal to the status of emperor and someone who rules a khaganate (empire).

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Khazars

The Khazars were a nomadic Turkic people that, in the late 6th-century CE, established a major commercial empire covering the southeastern section of modern European Russia, southern Ukraine, Crimea, and Kazakhstan.

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Kievan Chronicle

The Kievan Chronicle or Kyivan Chronicle is a chronicle of Kievan Rus'.

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Kievan Rus'

Kievan Rus', also known as Kyivan Rus,.

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Knyaz

Knyaz or knez, also knjaz, kniaz (кънѧѕь|kŭnędzĭ) is a historical Slavic title, used both as a royal and noble title in different times of history and different ancient Slavic lands.

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Kurgan

A kurgan is a type of tumulus constructed over a grave, often characterized by containing a single human body along with grave vessels, weapons and horses.

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Kyiv

Kyiv (also Kiev) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.

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László Helyey

László Helyey (21 May 1948 – 3 January 2014) was a Hungarian actor.

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Mikhail Artamonov (historian)

Mikhail Illarionovich Artamonov (Михаил Илларионович Артамонов; in the village of Vygolovo, Tver Governorate, now Molokovsky District, Tver Oblast - July 31, 1972 in Leningrad) was a Soviet and Russian historian and archeologist, who came to be recognized as the founding father of modern Khazar studies.

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Miskawayh

Ibn Miskawayh (مُسْکُـوْيَه Muskūyah, 932–1030), (Arabic: مِسْكَوَيْه، أبو علي محمد بن أحمد بن يعقوب مسكويه الرازي) full name Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb Miskawayh al-Rāzī was a Persian chancery official of the Buyid era, and philosopher and historian from Parandak, Iran.

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Muslims

Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.

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Nikolay Olyalin

Nikolay Vladimiriovich Olyalin (Николай Владимирович Олялин; 22 May 1941 - 17 November 2009) was a Soviet-Ukrainian actor of Russian ethnicity.

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Norman Golb

Norman Golb (15 January 1928 – 29 December 2020) was a scholar of Jewish history and the Ludwig Rosenberger Professor in Jewish History and Civilization at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

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Novgorod First Chronicle

The Novgorod First Chronicle (nəvɡɐˈrot͡skəjə ˈpʲervəjə ˈlʲetəpʲɪsʲ, commonly abbreviated as NPL) or The Chronicle of Novgorod, 1016–1471 is the oldest extant Rus' chronicle of the Novgorod Republic.

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Old Norse

Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages.

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Old Norse religion

Old Norse religion, also known as Norse paganism, is a branch of Germanic religion which developed during the Proto-Norse period, when the North Germanic peoples separated into a distinct branch of the Germanic peoples.

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Omeljan Pritsak

Omeljan Yosypovych Pritsak (Омелян Йосипович Пріцак; 7 April 1919, Luka, Sambir County, West Ukrainian People's Republic – 29 May 2006, Boston) was the first Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University and the founder and first director (1973–1989) of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

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Peter Gantzler

Peter Gantzler (born 28 September 1958) is a Danish actor.

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Primary Chronicle

The Russian Primary Chronicle, commonly shortened to Primary Chronicle (translit, commonly transcribed Povest' vremennykh let (PVL)), is a chronicle of Kievan Rus' from about 850 to 1110.

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Prince of Novgorod

The Prince of Novgorod (translit) was the title of the ruler of Novgorod in present-day Russia. Oleg the Wise and Prince of Novgorod are princes of Novgorod.

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Proto-Indo-European society

Proto-Indo-European society is the reconstructed culture of Proto-Indo-Europeans, the ancient speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language, ancestor of all modern Indo-European languages.

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Romanos I Lekapenos

Romanos I Lakapenos or Lekapenos (Ῥωμανός Λακαπήνος or Λεκαπηνός, Rōmanos Lakapēnos or Lekapēnos; 870 – 15 June 948), Latinized as Romanus I Lecapenus, was Byzantine emperor from 920 until his deposition in 944, serving as regent for and senior co-ruler of the young Constantine VII.

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Rurik

Rurik (also spelled Rorik, Riurik or Ryurik; Rjurikŭ; Hrøríkʀ; died 879) was a Varangian chieftain of the Rus' who, according to tradition, was invited to reign in Novgorod in the year 862. Oleg the Wise and Rurik are 9th-century monarchs in Europe, princes of Novgorod, Rurikids and Varangians.

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Rurikids

The Rurik dynasty, also known as the Rurikid or Riurikid dynasty, as well as simply Rurikids or Riurikids, was a noble lineage allegedly founded by the Varangian prince Rurik, who, according to tradition, established himself at Novgorod in the year 862. The Rurikids were the ruling dynasty of Kievan Rus' and its principalities following its disintegration.

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Rus' people

The Rus, also known as Russes, were a people in early medieval Eastern Europe. Oleg the Wise and Rus' people are Varangians.

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Rus'–Byzantine War (907)

Siege of Constantinople It is a military raid of the fleet of Rus' against Byzantium, a huge army landed in the Thrace and began to plunder it, after that the Byzantines offered peace to Rus.

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Schechter Letter

The Schechter Letter, also called the Genizah Letter or Cambridge Document, was discovered in the Cairo Geniza by Solomon Schechter in 1912.

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Slavic paganism

Slavic paganism, Slavic mythology, or Slavic religion is the religious beliefs, myths, and ritual practices of the Slavs before Christianisation, which occurred at various stages between the 8th and the 13th century.

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Smolensk

Smolensk is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River, west-southwest of Moscow.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Staraya Ladoga

Staraya Ladoga (t), known as Ladoga until 1704, is a rural locality (a selo) in Volkhovsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Volkhov River near Lake Ladoga, north of the town of Volkhov, the administrative center of the district. Oleg the Wise and Staraya Ladoga are Varangians.

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Thrace

Thrace (Trakiya; Thráki; Trakya) is a geographical and historical region in Southeast Europe.

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Threefold death

The threefold death, which is suffered by kings, heroes, and gods, is a reconstructed Proto-Indo-European theme encountered in Indic, Greek, Celtic, and Germanic mythology.

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Tmutarakan

Tmutarakan (Tmutarakán') was a medieval principality of Kievan Rus' and trading town that controlled the Cimmerian Bosporus, the passage from the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov, between the late 10th and 11th centuries.

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Trifunctional hypothesis

The trifunctional hypothesis of prehistoric Proto-Indo-European society postulates a tripartite ideology ("idéologie tripartite") reflected in the existence of three classes or castes—priests, warriors, and commoners (farmers or tradesmen)—corresponding to the three functions of the sacral, the martial and the economic, respectively.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_the_Wise

Also known as Helgi of Novgorod, Oleg Veshchy, Oleg of Kiev, Oleg of Kyiv, Oleg of Novgorod, Oleg the Prophet, Oleg the Seer, Oleh I, Oleh of Kyiv, Oleh of Novgorod, Oleh the Seer, Prince Oleg.

, Old Norse religion, Omeljan Pritsak, Peter Gantzler, Primary Chronicle, Prince of Novgorod, Proto-Indo-European society, Romanos I Lekapenos, Rurik, Rurikids, Rus' people, Rus'–Byzantine War (907), Schechter Letter, Slavic paganism, Smolensk, Soviet Union, Staraya Ladoga, Thrace, Threefold death, Tmutarakan, Trifunctional hypothesis, Tumulus, Varangians, Veliky Novgorod, Vikings (TV series), Vikings season 6, Viktor Vasnetsov, Volkhv.

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See also

10th-century princes from Kievan Rus'

Deaths due to snake bites

Princes of Kiev

Princes of Novgorod

Rurikids

Varangians

References