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Staraya Ladoga, Staraya Ladoga - Ladoga under Rurik and Rurikids, Staraya Ladoga - Origin and name, Staraya Ladoga - Sights and landmarks, Mounds in Staraya Ladoga. The shot was taken during the 1, 250th anniversary celebration, so people are in historical clothes.
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| | |  Staraya Ladoga - Sights and landmarks: Encyclopedia II - Staraya Ladoga - Ladoga under Rurik and RurikidsIn 862, the legendary Varangian leader Rurik arrived to Ladoga and made it his capital. Rurik's successors later moved to Novgorod and then to Kiev, thus laying foundations for the powerful state of Kievan Rus. There are several huge kurgans, or royal funerary barrows, at the outskirts of Ladoga. One of them is said to be Rurik's grave, and another one—that of his successor Oleg.
Ladoga's next mention in chronicles is dated to 1019, when Ingigerd of Sweden married Yaroslav of Novgorod. Under the terms of marriage settlement, Yarosla ...
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| | | | Staraya Ladoga - Sights and landmarks: Encyclopedia II - Staraya Ladoga - Origin and name Dendrochronology reports that Ladoga was founded in 753. Until 950, it was one of the most important trading ports of Eastern Europe. Merchant vessels sailed from the Baltic Sea through Ladoga to Novgorod and then to Constantinople or the Caspian Sea. This route is known as the Trade Route from the Varangians to the Greeks. Tellingly, the oldest Arabian Middle Age coin in Europe was unearthed in Ladoga.
Old Ladoga's inhabitants were Vikings, Finns, and Slavs, hence different names for the city. The original Finnish name, Alode-joki (i.e., "lowland river"), was rendered as Aldeigja in Norse languag ...
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