title: The Geopolitical Context of the Rus’ Raid on Seville
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metadata.value: Shinakov, Evgenii A.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Fedosov, Andrei V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-06-07T09:18:28Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-06-07T09:18:28Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-03
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metadata.value: Shinakov E. A., Fedosov A. V. The Geopolitical Context of the Rus’ Raid on Seville. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2022, vol. 67, issue 1, рp. 5–22.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2022.101
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/36484
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metadata.value: The article offers a possible explanation for the raid of the Rus’ on Seville in 844 and also attempts
  to compare this event with the embassy of the Rus’ to Constantinople and Ingelheim,
  and with their raid on Amastris. These events, taken as a part of a complex geopolitical picture
  of the “long middle” of the 9th century, show the origin and nature of the emerging group of
  the Rus’ people. This period started with the renewed Muslim onslaught on Europe through
  the Byzantine holdings in Asia Minor and Italy in the 820s–830s, and finished in the middle
  of the 860s with the Byzantine victory over the Abbasids. Other important events of this time
  were the Great Schism; victories of the Byzantine Orthodoxy over Catholicism and heretics
  in Great Moravia, Bulgaria and Asia Minor; and the first baptism of the Rus’. This geopolitical
  background was complemented by the collapse of the Carolingian Empire and the beginning
  of the German Drang nach Osten. During this time, a small group who identified itself as the
  Rus’ first in 838, came into being. Its main goal was to explore new trade routes to the Muslim
  world bypassing Khazaria. However, eventually they discovered an opportunity of pillaging
  Byzantium and its allies in Andalusia. The result of their actions, which were probably coordinated
  form one center in Southern Denmark, was their acquisition of “homeland” in the
  North of Eastern Europe: a land that was given its accidentally emerged name “Rus’”.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 67; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Rus’ people
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the raid on Seville
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: eastern sources
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: “the island of the Rus’”
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: geopolitics
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Geopolitical Context of the Rus’ Raid on Seville
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metadata.value: Article
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