Magyars
State · 840–910 CE · at its largest around 896 CE
The Hungarians, a semi-nomadic people who crossed the Carpathians around 895 to settle the Carpathian Basin and raided widely across Europe.
On its lands while it lasted
- Varangians to the Greeks (c. 800–1100 CE): Scandinavian traders and warriors travelled from the Baltic up the Neva and Volkhov past Novgorod, portaged to the Dnieper and sailed down past Kiev to the Black Sea and Constantinople.
- Founding of Kievan Rus' (882 CE): Oleg of Novgorod took Kyiv and made it his capital, creating the state of Kievan Rus', which united East Slavic lands under the Rurik dynasty.
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