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The Venedi were a pre-Slavic people who lived in modern Russia and Ukraine around classical antiquity.
What would it for this obscure tribe far beyond lands treaded by Greeks or Roman armies to form an empire roughly equalling Russia in the 16th or 15th centuries AD?