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~the  end  of   According to the Chronicle “Tale of Bygone
            5th cent.         Years”,  prince  Kyi,  his  brothers  Schek  and
                              Khory  and  his  sister  Lybid  set  up  Kyiv  that
                              with the lapse of time  became an important
                              political and cultural centre of the Polans.
            6th-7th cent.     The  appearance  of  confederacies  of  the
                              Slavs.  It is a known fact from the chronicle
                              “Tale  of  Bygone  Years”  that  on  the  eve  of
                              Kyivan Rus foundation there existed 14 East
                              Slavic confederacies. Seven of them lived on
                              the territory of the contemporary Ukraine:
                              1)  the  Polans  (the  middle  current  of  the
                              Dnieper);
                              2) the Severians (the left bank of the Dnieper,
                              the  basin  of  the  Desna,  the  Seim,  the  Sula
                              rivers);
                              3) the Drevlians (to the north-west from Kyiv,
                              the  basin  of  the  Prypiat  and  the  Teteriv
                              rivers);
                              4) the Dulibs, the Volhynians, the Buzhans (in
                              the upper current of the Western Buh river);
                              5)  the  Ulichs  (the  Lower  Dnieper  and  the
                              Lower Southern Buh);
                              6) the Tiverians (between the Dniester and the
                              Prut rivers);
                              7)  the  White  Croats  (the  Precarpathian
                              region).
            8th–the  middle  The consolidation of tribal confederacies into
            of 9th cent.      the tribal kingdoms. There are records about
                              the existence of three big political centres of
                              tribal kingdoms in Arabic sources: Kuyavia –
                              the state formation in the middle areas of the
                              Dnieper river with Kyiv as its centre; Slaviya-



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