Rus

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Rus or RUS may refer to:

People

Historical places

  • Kievan Rus', a medieval East Slavic state, centered in Kiev
  • Rus' Khaganate, a ninth-century Eastern European state
  • Ruthenia
  • Vladimirian Rus', or Vladimir-Suzdal, an East Slavic medieval state, centered in Vladimir
  • Halychian Rus', or Principality of Halych, an East Slavic medieval state, in region of Halych
  • Volhynian Rus', or Principality of Volhynia, an East Slavic medieval state, in regions of Volhynia
  • Halych-Volhynian Rus', or Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, an East Slavic medieval state, uniting Halych and Volhynia
  • Kingdom of Rus', or Galicia-Volhynia, an East Slavic medieval kingdom
  • Turovian Rus', or Principality of Turov, an East Slavic medieval state, in region of Turov
  • Polotskian Rus', or Principality of Polotsk, an East Slavic medieval state, in region of Polotsk
  • Novgorodian Rus', or Novgorod Republic, an East Slavic medieval state, centered in Novgorod
  • Muscovite Rus', or Grand Duchy of Moscow, an East Slavic medieval state, centered in Moscow
  • Tsardom of Rus', or Tsardom of Russia, an East Slavic early modern state, centered in Moscow
  • Minor Rus', or Little Russia, an East Slavic historical region
  • Great Rus', or Great Russia, an East Slavic historical region
  • White Rus', or White Ruthenia, an East Slavic historical region
  • Red Rus', or Red Ruthenia, an East Slavic historical region
  • Black Rus', or Black Ruthenia, an East Slavic historical region
  • Carpathian Rus', or Carpathian Ruthenia, an East Slavic historical region inhabited mostly by Rusyns (Rusynia), and a 1918–1919 provisional autonomous region, known as the "Rusyn Land"
  • Subcarpathian Rus', or Carpathian Ruthenia, an administrative region of the First Czechoslovak Republic
  • Western Rus (disambiguation)
  • Principality of Rus' (disambiguation)
  • Grand Principality of Rus' (disambiguation)

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Other places

Other uses

  • Rus (1903), a Russian newspaper published intermittently from 1903 to 1908
  • Rus (special forces), a unit of interior troops of the Russian Federation
  • Rus-M, a cancelled Russian space rocket program

See also

  • Russ (disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
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