Kiyev
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- Names
Kiyev
Kyyiv
Kyiv
Kiyiv
Kiev
Kiew
Könugard
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on Dnepr river; was key in trade route from Scandinavia to Byzantium; held by Viking Varangians from 862; was center of 1st Russian state, Kievan Rus; flourished in 11th cen.; taken by Mongols 13th cen.; Russian from 1686; badly damaged in WW II.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Britannica Book of the Year (1993); Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Rand McNally Atlas (1989); Rand McNally Atlas (1994); Times Atlas of World History (1993); Times Atlas of the World (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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