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6: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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Yeroslav Is a Scandinavian Prince

Some of the sources about him are Icelandic sagas. He also married one of his own daughters to the king of Norway. And it's inconceivable that he didn't speak whatever he wanted to call the Swedish language, or whatever he wantedto call it at that time. The Church of Sentsofia was modeled on Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.

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