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The Name of the Third Kind of Rus and of their City

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Omeljan Pritsak
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In the works of the 10th-century Arabic classical geographers, as represented by al-Iṣŭakhrī (c. 318–321/930–933) and Ibn Ḥawqal (c. 367/977), there appears a passage which deals with three “kinds” (ṣinf) of Rus. At the mention of the first kind of Rus, only the name of their city is given, while the name of the city of the second “kind”—apart from that of the kind themselves—though mentioned by Ibn Ḥawqal, is not given by al-Iṣṭakhrī.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 99 , Issue 1 , January 1967 , pp. 2 - 9
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1967

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