The earliest evidence of emergence ῾Ροῦς on the Byzantine historical scene

Abstract

One of the key issues of the modern Slavic Studies is to establish the time of occurrence of ethnonyms. Yes, they are recorded in written sources. However, their interpretation is not unambiguous. The study was conducted in order to establish the origin of the term Ροῦς.

Keywords

• Byzantium
• Slavs
• migrations
• written sources