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    The Russian Primary Chronicle, commonly shortened to Primary Chronicle (Church Slavonic: Повѣсть времѧньныхъ лѣтъ, romanized: Pověstĭ vremęnĭnyxŭ lětŭ...
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    Peninsula in the east, uniting the East Slavic tribes. According to the Primary Chronicle, the first ruler to unite East Slavic lands into what would become...
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  • According to the Primary Chronicle, the fleet of Rus' under Oleg of Kiev carried out a military strike against Byzantium in 907, landing a huge army landed...
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    chronology. Primary Chronicle entry for 968 Cross and Sherbowitz-Wetzor, Primary Chronicle, p. 84. Cross and Sherbowitz-Wetzor, Primary Chronicle, p. 84....
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    and laid the foundations of the Kievan Rus' state. According to the Primary Chronicle, he succeeded his "kinsman" Rurik as ruler of Novgorod, and subdued...
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    Rus' chronicle or Russian chronicle: 51  or Rus' letopis (Old East Slavic: лѣтопись, romanized: lětopisʹ) was the primary type of Rus' historical literature...
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    seem to have entailed no lasting consequences, since the Russian Primary Chronicle and other Slavonic sources describe the tenth-century Rus' as still...
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    Parian Chronicle - Ancient Greece Paschale Chronicle – Mediterranean Pictish Chronicle - Scotland Primary Chronicle – Eastern Europe Puranas – India Rajatarangini...
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    could be as early as 890 AD and as late as 925 AD. According to the Primary Chronicle, Olga was of Varangian (Viking) origin and was born in Pleskov. Little...
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    which later also included Anglo-Saxons. According to the 12th-century Primary Chronicle, a group of Varangians known as the Rus' settled in Novgorod in 862...
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