Portal:Europe 1000/Kievan Rus

Kievan Rus (Old East Slavic: Роусь, romanized: Rusĭ, or роусьскаѧ землѧ, romanized: rusĭskaę zemlę, "Rusian land") is a federation of East Slavic and Finno-Ugric peoples in Europe, under the reign of the Rurikovich dynasty, founded by the Varangian prince Rurik.