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The Varangians or Varyags (Væringjar; Greek: Βάραγγοι, Βαριάγοι, Varangoi, Variagoi) was the name given by Greeks and East Slavs to Vikings, who between the 9th and 11th centuries ruled the medieval state of Rus` and formed the Byzantine Varangian Guard. According to the 12th century Kievan Primary Chronicle, a group of Varangian....
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Varangians was a name given by the Greeks and Slavs to the Scandinavian rovers who in the 9th and 10th centuries sailed down the Dnieper and threatened Constantinople.
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A group of Norsemen who assumed control over communities of East Slavs (q.v.) ca. A.D. 860 and who founded the Rurikid Dynasty, which ruled for over 700 years.
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