Ῥωσία

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Etymology

From Ῥῶς (Rhôs) +‎ -ία (-ía).

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Noun

Ῥωσίᾱ (Rhōsíāf (genitive Ῥωσίᾱς); first declension

  1. (Koine, Byzantine) Rus, Kievan Rus
    • 1967 [10th century], chapter 9, in Romilly James Heald Jenkins, transl., edited by Gyula Moravcsik, Constantine Porphyrogenitus De Administrando Imperio, Dumbarton Oaks, translation of De Administrando Imperio by Constantine VII, →ISBN:
      Ὅτι τὰ ἀπὸ τῆς ἔξω Ῥωσίας μονόξυλα xatepydueva ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει εἰσὶ μὲν ἀπὸ τοῦ Νεμογαρδάς, ἐν ᾧ Σφενδοσθλάβος, ὁ υἱὸς Ἴγγωρ, τοῦ ἄρχοντος Ῥωσίας, ἐκαθέζετο, εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ ἀπὸ τὸ χάστρον τὴν Μιλινίσκαν καὶ ἀπὸ Τελιούτζαν καὶ Τζερνιγῶγαν καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ Βουσεγραδέ.
      Hóti tà apò tês éxō Rhōsías monóxula xatepydueva en Kōnstantinoupólei eisì mèn apò toû Nemogardás, en hôi Sphendosthlábos, ho huiòs Íngōr, toû árkhontos Rhōsías, ekathézeto, eisì dè kaì apò tò khástron tḕn Milinískan kaì apò Telioútzan kaì Tzernigôgan kaì apò toû Bousegradé.
      The ‘monoxyla’ which come down from outer Russia to Constantinople are from Novgorod, where Sviatoslav, son of Igor, prince of Russia, had his seat, and others from the city of Smolensk and from Teliutza and Chernigov and from Vyshegrad.

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