Kuyaba

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Coordinates: 50°27′N 30°31′E / 50.450°N 30.517°E / 50.450; 30.517

For a region in Poland, see Kuyavia, Poland

Kuyaba (Arabic: كويابة‎ Kūyāba[1]) was one of the three centers of the Rus[1][2] or Saqaliba (early East Slavs) described in a lost book by Abu 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 were Slawiya (Arabic: صلاوية‎ Ṣ(a)lāwiya)[1][2] (tentatively identified with the land of Ilmen Slavs, see Rus' Khaganate) and Arthaniya (Arabic: ارثانية‎ ’Arṯāniya)(not properly explained).[1][2]

Soviet historians such as Boris Grekov and Boris Rybakov hypothesized that "Kuyaba" was a mispronunciation of "Kiev". They brought forth a theory that Kuyaba had been a union of Slavic tribes in the middle course of the Dnieper River centered on Kiev.[3] Kuyaba, Slaviya, and Artaniya later merged to form the state of Kievan Rus'.[citation needed] This explanation has been adopted by modern Ukrainian historiography.[citation needed]

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 M. Th. Houtsma, ed. (1993). E. J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam: 1913-1936. Leiden: Brill. p. 1182. ISBN 90-04-09792-9. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Duczko, Wladyslaw (2004). Viking Rus: studies on the presence of Scandinavians in Eastern Europe. Leiden: Brill. p. 123. ISBN 90-04-13874-9. 
  3. ↑ Magocsi, Paul Robert (2010). A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples. University of Toronto Press. p. 57. ISBN 978-1-4426-1021-7. 
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