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2 days ago · The Mongol Empire invaded Kievan Rus' in the 13th century, devastating numerous cities, including Ryazan, Kolomna, Moscow, Vladimir and Kiev. The siege of Kiev in 1240 by the Mongols is generally understood as the end of Kievan Rus'.
2 days ago · One of Europe’s major cities, Kyiv established diplomatic relations with the Byzantine Empire, England, France, Sweden, and other countries. Travelers wrote of its population as numbering tens of thousands.
2 days ago · Kyiv (Kiev), chief city and capital of Ukraine. As the center of Kyivan (Kievan) Rus, the first eastern Slavic state, it acquired the title ‘Mother of Rus Cities.’ It was severely damaged during World War II, but the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union in 1991 renewed its status as a major European capital.
2 days ago · Kyiv - History, Culture, Architecture: In 1793 the Second Partition of Poland, under Russian Empress Catherine II (the Great), brought Right Bank Ukraine into the Russian Empire, and Kyiv, assisted by the abolition in 1754 of the tariff barriers between Russia and the Ukrainian lands, began to grow in commercial importance.
2 days ago · The Russian Empire was a vast Empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.
2 days ago · The French invasion of Russia, also known as the Russian campaign (French: Campagne de Russie) and in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 (Russian: Оте́чественная война́ 1812 го́да, romanized: Otéchestvennaya voyná 1812 góda), was initiated by Napoleon with the aim of compelling the Russian Empire to comply with the ...
8 hours ago · July 8, 2024 at 9:56 AM PDT. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy denounced a Russian-launched missile attack that partially destroyed a children’s hospital in Kyiv as part of a barrage of ...
