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🛶 AD 800s–900s — Varangians in the Viking East (Dnieper River, modern Ukraine) What you’re seeing: A montage of Scandinavian-linked warriors and traders moving through a timber river-fort, round shields and axes visible, with boats pulled up along a riverbank, meant to visualize how armed travel and commerce overlapped on the eastern river routes. Where is this? The Dnieper corridor near early Kyiv (Kiev), part of the Baltic-to-Black Sea network (roughly 1,000 miles / 1,600 km of rivers portage

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