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    The name Russia comes from the medieval Latin name for Rus', an early medieval state populated by East Slavs and centered around Kiev. The name Rus' originated from the Rus' people, a group of Norse merchants and warriors who settled in northern regions such as Novgorod. A medieval Latin name for Rus' was also Ruthenia. In Russian, the current name of the country, Rossiya, derives from the Byzantine Greek name for Rus', Rosía. This new form of the name was borrowed from Greek and first recorded in 1387, becoming the official name by the 15th century, though Russia was still commonly referred to as Rus' until the 17th century.

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    The name Russia comes from the medieval Latin name for Rus', an early medieval state populated by East Slavs and centered around Kiev. The name Rus' originated from the Rus' people, a group of Norse merchants and warriors who settled in northern regions such as Novgorod. A medieval Latin name for Rus' was also Ruthenia. In Russian, the current name of the country, Rossiya, derives from the Byzantine Greek name for Rus', Rosía. This new form of the name was borrowed from Greek and first recorded in 1387, becoming the official name by the 15th century, though Russia was still commonly referred to as Rus' until the 17th century.

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    The name 

    Russia comes from a Medieval Latin name for Rus', a medieval state populated primarily
    by the East Slavs.[20][21] In modern historiography, this state is usually denoted as Kievan Rus' after its
    capital city.[22] The name Rus' itself comes from the early medieval Rus' people, who were originally a
    group of Norse merchants and warriors who relocated from across the Baltic Sea and first settled in
    the northern region of Novgorod, and later founded a state centred on Kiev.[23] Another Medieval
    Latin name for Rus' was Ruthenia.[24]
    In Russian, the current name of the country, Россия (Rossiya), comes from the Byzantine
    Greek name for Rus', Ρωσία (Rosía).[25] A new form of the name Rus', Росия (Rosiya), was borrowed
    from the Greek term and first attested in 1387,[26] before coming into official use by the 15th century,
    though the country was still often referred to by its inhabitants as Rus' or the Russian land until the
    end of the 17th century.[27][28] There are two words in Russian which translate to "Russians" in
    English – русские (russkiye), which refers to ethnic Russians, and россияне (ro

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