Muroma

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Settlement area of ​​the Muromer

Muroma ( Russian Muroma [ murʌˈma ]) was a Finno-Ugric tribe that had lived since the 1st millennium BC. Lived in the Oka basin around the city of Murom named after him . The tribe operated agriculture, hunting and handicrafts. In the Middle Ages he paid tribute to the Kievan Rus . In the 14th century it disappears from historical sources, so that it can be assumed that it was assimilated by the Eastern Slavs .

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  1. ↑ Cf. Andreas Kappeler , Russia as a multi-ethnic empire: emergence - history - decay , Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-36472-1 [new edition. 2001: ISBN 3-406-47573-6 ], p. 21.

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