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5: Vikings, Slavers, Lawgivers: The Kyiv State

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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What Is Christianity?

The Franks and the Byzantines have two different accounts of what happened to the Roman Empire. In Slavic languages, how do you say like Charles in a Slavic language? Cattle. So that name Charles becomes the Slavic word or a Slavic word for king. The very idea of kingship is coming from this kingdom of the Franks established in 800. And it's the model state which is then going to prevail in Europe.

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