Kuyaba
50°27′N30°31′E/ 50.450°N 30.517°E Kuyaba(Arabic:كويابةKūyāba[1]) was one of the three centers of theRus[1][2]orSaqaliba(early East Slavs) described in a lost book byAbu Zayd al-Balkhi(dating from ca. 920) and mentioned in works by some of his followers (Ibn Hawqal,Al-Istakhri,Hudud ul-'alam). The two other centers wereSlawiya(Arabic:صلاويةṢ(a)lāwiya)[1][2](tentatively identified with the land ofIlmen Slavs,seeRus' Khaganate) andArthaniya(Arabic:ارثانية’Arṯāniya) (not properly explained).[1][2]
Soviet historians such asBoris GrekovandBoris Rybakovhypothesized that "Kuyaba" was a mispronunciation of "Kiev".They theorized that Kuyaba had been a union of Slavic tribes in the middle course of theDnieper Rivercentered on Kiev (now inUkraine).[3] Kuyaba, Slawiya, and Artaniya later merged to form the state ofKievan Rus',believed to include modern Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. This explanation has been adopted by modern Ukrainian historiography.[citation needed]
See also
[edit]- Kyi,the legendary founder ofKiev
- Kuyavia,Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
- Rus' Khaganate
References
[edit]- ^abcdM. Th. Houtsma, ed. (1993).E. J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam: 1913-1936.Leiden: Brill. p. 1182.ISBN90-04-09792-9.
- ^abcDuczko, Wladyslaw (2004).Viking Rus: studies on the presence of Scandinavians in Eastern Europe.Leiden: Brill. p. 123.ISBN90-04-13874-9.
- ^Magocsi, Paul Robert (2010).A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples.University of Toronto Press. p. 57.ISBN978-1-4426-1021-7.
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