Maiden Square is where people gather around an enormous pole
3 Brothers & their Sister - East Polans who founded Kiev
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyi,_Schek_and_Khoryv
Kyi (also Kiy, Kij or Kyj), Shchek and Khoryv (Ukrainian: Кий, Щек, Хорив) are the three legendary brothers, sometimes mentioned along with their sister Lybid (Ukrainian: Либідь), who, according to the Primary Chronicle,[1] were the founders of medieval Kiev city - now the capital of Ukraine. The legend is widely recognized as a source of Kiev's mythology and urban naming.
Archaeological excavations have shown there indeed was an ancient settlement from the 6th century. Some speculate that Kyi was a real person, a knyaz (prince) from the tribe of eastern Polans.[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polans_%28eastern%29
The Polans (Ukrainian: Поляни Polyany; Russian: Поляне Polyane); also Polianians; were a Slavic tribe between the 6th and the 9th century, which inhabited both sides of the Dnieper river from Liubech to Rodnia and also down the lower streams of the rivers Ros', Sula, Stuhna, Teteriv, Irpin', Desna and Pripyat. In the Early Middle Ages there were two separate Slavic tribes bearing the name of Polans, the other being the western Polans (ancestors of the modern Poles). The name derives from the Old East Slavic word поле or поляна (polyana), which means "field", because the Polans used to settle in the open fields.[1] Polans were dominated by Rus Waregs and played a key role in the formation of Ukrainian genetics.[citation needed]
The land of the Polans was at the crossroads of territories, belonging to different Eastern Slavic tribes, such as Drevlyans, Radimichs, Drehovians and Severians and connected them all with water arteries. An important trade route called the Road from the Varangians to the Greeks passed through the land of the Polans and connected Northern Europe with the Black Sea and the Byzantine Empire. In the 9th and 10th centuries the Polans had well-developed arable land farming, cattle-breeding, hunting, fishing, wild-hive beekeeping and various handicrafts such as blacksmithing, casting, pottery, Goldsmithing, etc. Thousands of (pre-Polan) kurgans, found by archaeologists in the Polan region, indicate that that land had a relatively high population density. They lived in small families in semi dug-outs ("earth-houses") and wore homespun clothes and modest jewellery. Before converting to Christianity, the inhabitants used to burn their dead and erect kurgan-like embankments over them.Kiev's 'Polan' people would forget they were Polans as they were re-defined by the Eastern Roman Empire Extension as "Rus".
In the 9th century, the Polans were ruled by the Khazars and had to pay tribute to them.[citation needed] In the 860s, the Varangians (Vikings) arrived and organized a few successful military campaigns against the Byzantine Empire, who eventually defeated them and made peace with them, the Pechenegs and the Polochans.
The chronicles repeatedly note that socio-economic relations in the Polan communities were highly developed compared to the neighboring tribes. In the 880s, the land of the Polans was conquered by Oleg of Novgorod and the chronicles name the Polans as the founders of Kiev (see Kyi, Schek and Khoryv), making them the tribe that had contributed the most to the development of the Kievan Rus' state.[2]
According to chronicalized legends, the largest cities of the eastern Polans were Kiev, Pereyaslav, Rodnia, Vyshhorod, Belgorod (now Bilohorodka village at the Irpin river) and Kaniv. In the 10th century, the term "Polans" was virtually out of use and exchanged for "Rus", with Polans as a tribe being last mentioned in a chronicle of 944.[3]
And what's happening today and for 2014 is but perhaps the inevitable result of history.
Lady Of War Flying Over Ukraine
http://control-avles-blogs.blogspot.com/2014/02/lady-of-war-flying-over-ukraine.html
Polish Kresy Re-annexation Now Discussed As Possible
http://continuingcounterreformation.blogspot.com/2014/02/polish-kresy-re-annexation-now.html
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