Kiev
Subtitle: A Portrait, 1800-1917
Publisher: Diane Pub Co
Published: June 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780756750367
Subjects: History: World
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.