Kiev
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: December 22, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780691025858
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Social history; Urban communities; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Kiev (Ukraine); History Of Individual Cities; History; History - General History; History: World; Ukraine; Eastern Europe - General; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; European History; History / Europe / Eastern; History / Russia (pre- & post-Soviet Union); History-Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Jewish Studies
First sentence: THE ORGANIZING center of Kievan Rus, the first great Slavic state, Kiev arose in the ninth century as a commercial hub on the trade routes connecting Europe, the Eastern Christian empire known as Byzantium with its capital at Constantinople, the glorious Abassid Moslem empire ruled from Baghdad, and the Khazar state of the lower Volga and northern Caucasus.