Rus
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Rus (Русь in the Cyrillic Alphabet, transliterated Rus’) may refer to one of the following:
- Rus' (people) - a medieval people of Eastern Europe.
- Etymology of Rus and derivatives - article about the derivation of the ethnonym.
- Rus' Khaganate - a polity created by the Rus' people in the ninth century.
- Kievan Rus' - a successor to the Rus' Khaganate that emerged in the late ninth and early tenth centuries
- Ruthenia - land
- Rus, brother of Lech and Czech - legendary character
- Rus (special forces) - a unit of the Russian Interior Ministry
- Rus(s), the Scandinavian cultural phenomenon
- Rus, Jaén, a village in Andalusia, Spain
- Rus, Sălaj, a commune in Sălaj County, Romania
- Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), a feminist student group at Harvard College
- RUS is the ISO 639-2 code for the Russian language
- Rus is Latin for "countryside" and may occur in expressions taken from Latin.
[edit] See also
es:Ruset:Vene fr:Rus pl:Ruś ru:Русь (государство) sl:RUS sv:Rus uk:Русь
