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List of tribes and states in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine

List of tribes and states in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine

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The following is a list of tribes which dwelled and states which existed on the territories of contemporary Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine.

Overview

Clan cultures of the Stone Age and Bronze Age, up to the Late Antiquity period of the tribal societies that were replaced or incorporated into the Early Slavs. The Slavs were a diverse group of tribal societies in the Iron Age and Migration Age Europe whose tribal organizations created the foundations for today's Slavic nations.[1]

The tribes were later replaced or consolidated by states containing a mixture of Slavs, Varangians and Finno-Ugric groups, starting with the formation of Kievan Rus'.[2] When Kievan Rus' gradually disintegrated in the 12th and 13th centuries, in part by the Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus', its constituent principalities, known historiographically as "Rus' principalities",[3] asserted their autonomy or sovereignty.[lower-alpha 1] This included semi-autonomous Rus' principalities in the southwest dependent on the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (and later absorbed into Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, such as Halych (Galicia) and Volhynia[3]) and in the northeast long dependent on the Golden Horde until around 1500 (including the Novgorod Republic, Vladimir-Suzdal, Smolensk, Polotsk, and Turov,[5] and later Tver, Moscow (Muscovy) and Nizhny Novgorod-Suzdal[6]). In traditional historiography on Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, the impact of Turco-Mongol rule by the Golden Horde and its successor states (traditionally called the "Tatar yoke" or "Mongol yoke") has been neglected or downplayed, with Imperial Russian historiography of the 18th century expressing European superiority over Muslims, nomads, and Asians, of the 19th century expressing racist and colonialist ideologies, and around 1900 expressing Great Russian chauvinism towards minorities.[7] 20th-century Soviet and Western scholars have sought to give a more balanced perspective, but were still influenced by earlier Imperial Russian literature and their own biases.[7]

From around the late 14th century, Muscovy would gradually dominate and absorb the northeastern Rus' principalities,[6][8] while competing with Lithuania (and Poland), Novgorod, Tver, and the Teutonic Order for political, socio-economic and cultural control of the entire region.[8] Muscovy became the Tsardom of Russia in 1547, followed by the Russian Empire in 1721, which conquered and annexed the southwestern former Rus' territories from Poland–Lithuania, the Cossack Hetmanate and the Crimean Khanate during the reign of Catherine the Great (r. 1762–1796).[9]

After World War I, the Russian Civil War and the Polish–Soviet War, most of these areas were part of the Soviet Union during the interwar period, except for the western territories that were part of the Second Polish Republic or other states.[lower-alpha 2] During the Cold War, all of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine were part of the Soviet Union as three of its fifteen constituent republics, becoming independent upon its dissolution in 1991.

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Notes

  1. "The Rus’ principalities in the fourteenth century were not ‘Russia’, although their history in this century is often subsumed into that rubric. The state centred at Moscow that became Russia emerged from one of the Rus’ principalities over the course of the century. During the 1300s political and cultural diversity was the dominant feature of these lands in the eastern reaches of the forested European plain. (...) What gives this area its historical cohesion was the shared common political heritage of the Kiev Rus' state, whose Rurikide dynasty had controlled most of these lands (not the Baltic littoral or the farthest northern lands) from the tenth to twelfth centuries. By the beginnin of the fourteenth, however, the grand principality had evolved into many different principalities, all descended from the Kievan ruling family."[4]
  2. The Nowogródek, Polesia, Volhynia, Ternopil and Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk) voivodeships of the Second Polish Republic contained areas that since 1991 have been part of Belarus (such as parts of the former Imperial Russian Minsk Governorate) or Ukraine (the former Imperial Austrian Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria and former Imperial Russian Volhynian Governorate). Carpathian Ruthenia (part of Ukraine since 1991) was part of interwar Czechoslovakia, while northern Bukovina (part of Ukraine since 1991) and Bessarabia (divided between Ukraine and Moldova since 1991) were part of the interwar Kingdom of Romania.[10]
  3. During the 14th century, "political history is dominated by the vicious struggle between Moscow and Tver' for supremacy in Vladimir-Suzdalia. In the drive for power, both states had to address Sarai, for the Golden Horde had the uncontested prerogative of determining succession to the symbolic throne of the grand prince of Vladimir. In this new political climate, the Mongols abandoned the now obsolete policy of respecting the traditional Russian lines of succession."[17]
  4. Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia in 1829–56.

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    Barford (2001, p. vii, Preface)
  2. [2]
    Martin 2004, p. 1–5.
  3. [3]
    Martin 2004, p. 163–165.
  4. [4]
    Kollmann 1995, p. 764.
  5. [5]
    Martin 2004, p. 163–164.
  6. [6]
    Martin 2004, p. 207–208.
  7. [7]
    Halperin 1987, p. 9.
  8. [8]
    Kollmann 1995, p. 793–794.
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    "Rusland. §5.2 Catharina II". Encarta Encyclopedie Winkler Prins (in Dutch). Microsoft Corporation/Het Spectrum. 2002.
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    "Oekraïne §5.4 De Oekraïense SSR". Encarta Encyclopedie Winkler Prins (in Dutch). Microsoft Corporation/Het Spectrum. 2002.
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    Hopper, Tristin (May 26, 2021). "The world's oldest government-in-exile is in Ottawa". National Post. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
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    Parpola, Asko, (2012). "Formation of the Indo-European and Uralic (Finno-Ugric) language families in the light of archaeology: Revised and integrated ‘total’ correlations", in Mémoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne, Helsinki, p. 138.
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    Beckerman, Sandra Mariët (2015). Corded Ware Coastal Communities: Using ceramic analysis to reconstruct third millennium BC societies in the Netherlands. Leiden: Sidestone Press.
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    "7,000 years ago, Neolithic optical art flourished – Technology & science – Science – DiscoveryNews.com". NBC News. 2008-09-22. Archived from the original on 2015-12-24. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
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    Martin 2009, pp. 1–5.
  16. [16]
    Halperin 1987, p. 25.
  17. [17]
    Halperin 1987, p. 68, 71.
  18. [18]
    Halperin 1987, p. 71–72.
  19. [19]
    Halperin 1987, p. 99–100, 109.
  20. [20]
    Halperin 1987, p. 99–100.
  21. [21]
    Halperin 1987, p. 68.
  22. [22]
    Halperin 1987, p. 100, 109.

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