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Free Download Alexander Basilevsky, "Early Ukraine: A Military and Social History to the Mid-19th Century"
English | ISBN: 0786497149 | 2016 | 408 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
As the Dark Ages enveloped Europe, a civilization was born on the banks of the Dnieper River. Rus-whose capital at Kiev surpassed in grandeur most cities of Europe-was home to the Ukrainian people, whose princes made war on Constantinople and established the city states of what would become Russia. The cities of Rus were destroyed by the Mongols, their remains falling to the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom. With the steppe restored to wilderness, the "kraina" borderlands of the hardy frontiersmen known as Cossacks-who in the 17th century destroyed powerful Polish, Lithuanian and Muscovite armies-gained Ukrainian independence and established a unique social order.