1598 Disestablishments - Rurik Dynasty, Khanate of Sibir, the Theatre, Bishopric of Lebus, Bishopric of Havelberg, Compagnie Van Verre (Paperback)

Chapters: Rurik Dynasty, Khanate of Sibir, the Theatre, Bishopric of Lebus, Bishopric of Havelberg, Compagnie Van Verre. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Rurik Dynasty or Rurikids (Rurikid Dynasty) were the ruling dynasty of Kievan Rus' (after 862), the successor principalities of Galicia-Volhynia (after 1199), Chernigov, Vladimir-Suzdal, and the Grand Duchy of Moscow, as well as the early Tsardom of Russia (after 1168). According to the Primary Chronicle, the dynasty was established in 862 by Rurik, the legendary great ruler of Novgorod. The exact origin of his tribe, the Varangians ('Varyag') called Rus', is disputed and his ethnicity remains unclear, although Scandinavian and Slavic influences are cited, and by charting the y dna of his modern agnatic descendants the genetical origin of his patriline has been shown to likely been tshuudi (Finno-Ugric) (see "Rurikid Dynasty DNA Project," below). He and his brothers founded a state that later historians called Kievan Rus'. By the middle of the twelfth century, Kievan Rus' had dissolved into independent principalities (Russian, or Rus' principalities), each ruled by different branches of the Rurik dynasty. Rurik and his progeny came to rule over northern territories where only a portion of the genome are similar with other Indo-Europeans - and (to the point in this) much of the genome are similar with Finnic tshuudi. Finno-Ugric tribes had been some inhabitants in vast regions in northern and western Russia, and there were plenty of their remnants in genome. The Finnic portion is a genetical substrate in the Slavic Indo-European population of western and northern Russia, much like professor Kalevi Wiik has theorized the Slavic language to have developed in such places. The land was inhabit...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2148713