Rus

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Rus or RUS may refer to:

People

  • East Slavic historical peoples (Русь). See Names of Rus', Russia and Ruthenia
    • Rus' people, the people of Rus'
    • Rus, a legendary eponymous ancestor, see
      Lech, Czech and Rus
  • Rus (surname), a surname found in Romania and elsewhere

Historical places

  • Kievan Rus', a medieval East Slavic state, centered in Kiev
  • Rus' Khaganate, a ninth-century Eastern European state
  • Ruthenia
  • Vladimirian Rus'
    , or Vladimir-Suzdal, an East Slavic medieval state, centered in Vladimir
  • Halychian Rus'
    , or Principality of Halych, an East Slavic medieval state, in region of Halych
  • Volhynian Rus'
    , or Principality of Volhynia, an East Slavic medieval state, in regions of Volhynia
  • Halych-Volhynian Rus'
    , or Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, an East Slavic medieval state, uniting Halych and Volhynia
  • Kingdom of Rus'
    , or Galicia-Volhynia, an East Slavic medieval kingdom
  • Turovian Rus'
    , or Principality of Turov, an East Slavic medieval state, in region of Turov
  • Polotskian Rus'
    , or Principality of Polotsk, an East Slavic medieval state, in region of Polotsk
  • Novgorodian Rus'
    , or Novgorod Republic, an East Slavic medieval state, centered in Novgorod
  • Muscovite Rus'
    , or Grand Duchy of Moscow, an East Slavic medieval state, centered in Moscow
  • Tsardom of Rus'
    , or Tsardom of Russia, an East Slavic early modern state, centered in Moscow
  • Minor Rus'
    , or Little Russia, an East Slavic historical region
  • Great Rus'
    , or Great Russia, an East Slavic historical region
  • White Rus'
    , or White Ruthenia, an East Slavic historical region
  • Red Rus'
    , or Red Ruthenia, an East Slavic historical region
  • Black Rus'
    , or Black Ruthenia, an East Slavic historical region
  • Carpathian Rus'
    , or Carpathian Ruthenia, an East Slavic historical region inhabited mostly by Rusyns (Rusynia), and a 1918–1919 provisional autonomous region, known as the "Rusyn Land"
  • Subcarpathian Rus'
    , or Carpathian Ruthenia, an administrative region of the First Czechoslovak Republic
  • Western Rus (disambiguation)
  • Principality of Rus' (disambiguation)
  • Grand Principality of Rus' (disambiguation)

Acronyms

Codes

Other places

Other uses

  • Rus (1903), a Russian newspaper published intermittently from 1903 to 1908
  • Rus (special forces), a unit of interior troops of the Russian Federation
  • Rus-M, a cancelled Russian space rocket program

See also

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