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Borovkov D.A. About Russia and the “Russian khaganate”

Abstract: this article analyzes the evidence of old Russian (Primary Chronicle), Byzantine, Latin and Arabic sources of IX-X centuries mentioning ethnonyms “Russia” and “Khagan” of Russians. The focus is on containment of “Russia” and the evolution of this concept from ethnicity to social meaning, as well as the historiographical representation of the “Russian khaganate” in IX century (the most probable location of which is the Middle Dnieper).


Keywords:

history, Russia, Varangian, Slavs, Khagan, Khaganate, the Khazars, the record, title, localization.


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