Muscovy (disambiguation)
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Muscovy (also Moscovia, Moscovie, Moskovia; in Russian: Московия) is a historical European term for the Principality of Moscow and the Grand Duchy of Moscow. It may also refer to one of the following:
- A common name for the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
- Early Tsardom of Russia (16th —17th centuries; e.g., Discovery of Muscovy by Richard Hakluyt or John Milton's A brief History of Moscovia)
- Muscovia (book) (1586) by Antonio Possevino [1]
- Moscovia Monastery
- Muscovy Company
- Muscovy Duck (Cairina moschata).
- Muscovy Glass or Muscovite, a mineral.
- Muscovy Levee, on the Lytle Creek, in Muscoy, San Bernardino County, California.
- Muscovy Lilac, a variety of the Common Lilac (Syringa vulgaris).
- Muscovy Street, in the City of London, near the Tower of London.
- Moskovia Airlines [2]
- A term for a "parallel world" Russia in Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials