1015

Arthania - one of the three tribes of the Rus. Ibn Hawqal claims that nobody has ever visited Artha because the locals kill every foreigner attempting to penetrate their land.

• Vladimir dies and a new civil war erupts. Prince Vladimir's death leads Rurik princes into fratricidal war that continues until 1036.

• Eldest surviving brother of Vladimir, Svyatopolk the Accursed, killed three of his other brothers and seized power in Kiev.

• Karelia, ancient Veps city burned down

• 1015-1025 Russian Dynastic war

• 1015-1019 Sviatopolk wars

• 1015-1019 Bolesław I's intervention in the Kievan succession crisis

• Vladimir the Great continued to expand his territories beyond his father's extensive domain. In 981, he conquered the Cherven towns from the Poles; in 981-982 he suppressed a Vyatichi rebellion; in 983, he subdued theYatvingians; in 984, he conquered the Radimichs; and in 985, he conducted a military campaign against the Volga Bulgars, planting numerous fortresses and colonies on his way.

Although Christianity spread in the region under Oleg's rule, Vladimir had remained a thoroughgoing pagan, taking eight hundred concubines (along with numerous wives) and erecting pagan statues and shrines to gods He may have attempted to reform Slavic paganism by establishing the thunder-god, Perun, as a supreme deity.

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