No, Medvedev is no real power.Medvedania?![]()
It'd better be Putinia!
No, Medvedev is no real power.Medvedania?![]()
No, Medvedev is no real power.
It'd better be Putinia!![]()
Gardarika or Gårdarike are what the Vikings called Russia before Rurik.Gurps Alternate Earths 2 uses Gardarika (realm of cities), but this "Russia" is clearly dominated by the Vikings.
Just to make things more complicated:
The funny thing is that during 'Time of Trouble' 'the Russians' did not call themselves 'Russians' (or 'Russkie' or anything similar). You would not find anything like that in any of the written sources. The word 'the Russians' was never(!) used.
The 'Russians' called themselves 'the Christians' (of course meaning 'true Orthodox christians' as opposed to others 'heretic Catholic or Protestant christians').
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So answering the question: Alternate names for 'Russians'?
- It is 'the Christians' as it was in the 17-th century.
p.s. Actually in the modern Russian language there is an obvious remnant of this old self-name of the Russians:
- it is the word 'крестьянин' - a peasant (plowman). It sounds like 'krestjyanin' and is derived from 'Christian' (христианин).
Gardarika or Gårdarike
Tartary would work for Siberia.
NopeHmmm.....so "Christland", which then gets mocked as "Jesusland" in the 21st Century?![]()
In all ancient 'Russian' sources all the Vikings are called the 'Varangians'.Also, two Rus' lands could be named Kievan Rus' and Varangian Rus'
Orthodox Christians who populated the land called 'RUS' gravitated to each other and created a state which grew up and became RUSsia of today. Even in the 19-th century it was not a 'nation' as we understand this notion nowadays.