Ilmen Slavs - Ilmenislavs

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[Establishment of the Nation]
According to the oldest Russian chronicle, the Tale of Bygone Years, compiled in the early 12th century, in the mid-9th century, the powerful East Slavic tribe Polyanin had settled in the middle reaches of the Dnieper River and created a small state centered in Kiev. In the upper reaches, the Krivichi tribe was centered in Smolensk, and further north, the Ilmen Slav tribe of Novgorod was influential, while the Porochanins and others were in Polotsk, and they maintained loose ties through common language, customs, beliefs, and trade activities. Early East Slavic cities such as Kiev and Novgorod were the centers of tribal unity, and at the same time, they were also key locations on the long-distance trade routes (the so-called Varangian roads) of the Dnieper and Volga river systems that connected the Baltic Sea with the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "Ilmen Slavs" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

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［国家の成立］
　12世紀初めに編さんされたロシア最古の年代記《過ぎし年月の物語》によれば，9世紀半ばには，東スラブ人の有力部族ポリャーニン族がドニエプル川中流域に定住してキエフを中心とする小規模な国をつくっていた。上流域にはスモレンスクを中心とするクリビチ族がおり，さらに北方にはノブゴロドのイリメニ･スラブ族が勢力を張り，ポロツクにはポロチャニン族その他がいて，それぞれ共通の言語，習慣，信仰，交易活動を通じてゆるやかなつながりを保っていた。キエフやノブゴロドなど，東スラブ人の初期の都市は諸族のまとまりの中心であると同時に，バルト海と黒海，カスピ海をつなぐドニエプル，ボルガ水系の遠距離商業路(いわゆる〈ワリャーギの道〉)の要地でもあった。…

※「イリメニ・スラブ族」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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