Rus' Khaganate
It was suggested that the Rus' Khaganate was a state, or a cluster of city-states, set up by a people called "Rus'" (characterised in all contemporary sources as Norsemen) somewhere in what is today European Russia, as a chronological predecessor to the Rurik Dynasty and Kievan Rus'. The region's population at that time was composed of Slavic, Turkic, Baltic, Finnic, Hungarian and Norse peoples. The region was also a place of operations for Varangians - eastern Scandinavian adventurers, merchants, and pirates.