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Well, as much as i know the people of that time called themselves simply " Rus' ". The "s" is softly spoken, similarly to "c" when you pronounce "france" in french, just without the long "e" at the end.
I think there was no medieval time is that part of europe as it was in the western europe, so i would remove "medieval".
Regarding "kievan": There was no clear and durable political center. All princes were constantly fighting over who is first and were trying to unite the rus lands behind them.
For a certain amont of time kiev was the political center, before it was novgorod, after it was susdal-vladimir, then it changed to susdal-rostov, then it turned into moscov. Paralel the prince from galych-volyn was claiming he is the"main" prince among all princes. Basicly there was a constant fluctuation with the center of gravity going from one duchy to another with many duchies simultaneously claiming they are the "main" ones etc... Basicly a "fortnite" scenario if we talk about the politics.
Besides politics all people/inhabitants had a common identity, an idea of belonging to one and the same group/social entity, the Rus'.
You can compare it with germany during and after the time of napoleonic invasion. There was a common german identity, a common german language, although with many dialects, but there was no political center, and the german lands were divided in many many duchies, chiefdoms, cities etc.... And later germans tried to dicide whether Prussia or Vienna is the "main" city, but at the end it turned out to be berlin to politically unify all german lands. I think comparison to germany is a good one.
Anyway, I would skip all this and simply call it "Rus' ". It sounds archaic and cool and historicaly most accurate. I doubt one can find something wrong with the name.
Regarding the "M": No, its definetly not a swastika, and is not supposed to look like that. This association is very new to me. I think the used letters are slavic equivalent of gothic writing in english and are supposed to look archaic.
PS: Here are some of the images i found. Its for historical context for the ones who are interested in the basis of the map.
https://imgur.com/a/dFxNvVz
I think there was no medieval time is that part of europe as it was in the western europe, so i would remove "medieval".
Regarding "kievan": There was no clear and durable political center. All princes were constantly fighting over who is first and were trying to unite the rus lands behind them.
For a certain amont of time kiev was the political center, before it was novgorod, after it was susdal-vladimir, then it changed to susdal-rostov, then it turned into moscov. Paralel the prince from galych-volyn was claiming he is the"main" prince among all princes. Basicly there was a constant fluctuation with the center of gravity going from one duchy to another with many duchies simultaneously claiming they are the "main" ones etc... Basicly a "fortnite" scenario if we talk about the politics.
Besides politics all people/inhabitants had a common identity, an idea of belonging to one and the same group/social entity, the Rus'.
You can compare it with germany during and after the time of napoleonic invasion. There was a common german identity, a common german language, although with many dialects, but there was no political center, and the german lands were divided in many many duchies, chiefdoms, cities etc.... And later germans tried to dicide whether Prussia or Vienna is the "main" city, but at the end it turned out to be berlin to politically unify all german lands. I think comparison to germany is a good one.
Anyway, I would skip all this and simply call it "Rus' ". It sounds archaic and cool and historicaly most accurate. I doubt one can find something wrong with the name.
Regarding the "M": No, its definetly not a swastika, and is not supposed to look like that. This association is very new to me. I think the used letters are slavic equivalent of gothic writing in english and are supposed to look archaic.
PS: Here are some of the images i found. Its for historical context for the ones who are interested in the basis of the map.
https://imgur.com/a/dFxNvVz
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