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'''Kuyaba''' ({{langx|ar|كويابة}} ''Kūyāba''<ref name=Brill>{{cite book |title=E. J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam: 1913-1936|editor= M. Th. Houtsma|year=1993|publisher=Brill|location=Leiden|isbn=90-04-09792-9|page=1182|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fWNpIGNFz0IC&pg=PA1182}}</ref>) was one of the three centers of the [[Rus' people|Rus]]<ref name=Brill/><ref name=Duczko>{{cite book|title=Viking Rus: studies on the presence of Scandinavians in Eastern Europe|last=Duczko|first=Wladyslaw|year=2004|publisher=Brill|location=Leiden|isbn=90-04-13874-9|page=123|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hEawXSP4AVwC&pg=PA123}}</ref> or  [[Saqaliba]] ([[early East Slavs]]) described in a lost book by [[Abu Zayd al-Balkhi]] (dating from ca. 920) and mentioned in works by some of his followers ([[Ibn Hawqal]], [[Al-Istakhri]], [[Hudud ul-'alam]]).
The two other centers were [[Slawiya]] ({{langx|ar|صلاوية}} ''Ṣ(a)lāwiya'')<ref name=Brill/><ref name=Duczko/> (tentatively identified with the land of [[Ilmen Slavs]], see [[Rus' Khaganate]]) and [[Arthaniya]] ({{langx|ar|ارثانية}} ''’Arṯāniya'') (not properly explained).<ref name=Brill/><ref name=Duczko/>
Soviet historians such as [[Boris Grekov]] and [[Boris Rybakov]] hypothesized that "Kuyaba" was a mispronunciation of "[[Kiev]]". They theorized that Kuyaba had been a union of Slavic tribes in the middle course of the [[Dnieper River]] centered on Kiev (now in [[Ukraine]]).<ref name=Magocsi>{{cite book|last=Magocsi|first=Paul Robert|title=A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples|year=2010|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-1-4426-1021-7|pages=57|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BNUtdVrw6lIC&pg=PA57}}</ref>
Kuyaba, Slawiya, and Artaniya later merged to form the state of [[Kievan Rus']], believed to include modern Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. This explanation has been adopted by modern Ukrainian historiography.{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}}
==See also==
*[[Kyi]], the legendary founder of [[Kiev]]
*[[Kuyavia]], [[Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship]]
*[[Rus' Khaganate]]
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== References ==
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[[Category:Kievan Rus']]
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