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The name has occurred from Varangians rus, called by the Novgorod Slavs in 862 year as a military team. They have put things in order and have created the first centralised government. As the state name is mentioned for the first time in the text of the Russian-Byzantian CONTRACT 911 years. The name Russia is used much late, in XV century. The people who originally settled the area were known as the "Rus", so the the land became known as the land of the Rus. The Russian word for Russia is "Rossiya", the German word for Russia is "Rusland".

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