"mission arrived in Moscow, Boris Godunov was elected the new tsar. With the legitimacy issues clouding the entire period of the rule of Boris Godunov, Russia submerged into even greater chaos upon his death, the Russian Time of Troubles, which was accompanied by a decisive Polish armed intervention, or the Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618), commonly referred to in Russia as the ""Polish intervention in the end-17th century"". In the course of the Polish–Muscovite War, the Polish prince (later king) Władysław IV Vasa was briefly elected a Russian Tsar among other such strange developments like enthronement and short reign of False Dmitriy"
"Moscow (community), Wisconsin Moscow is an unincorporated community in the town of Moscow, Iowa County, Wisconsin, United States. Moscow was named after the Mascouten (sometimes spelled Muscoutin) Indians who summered here. In 1847 Chauncey Smith built a grist mill on the Blue Mounds Branch of the Pecatonica River that runs through the community. The village was platted and recorded in 1850. A post office, blacksmith, hotel, school, cheese factory, broom factory, carding mill, and doctor all prospered here. At one time the population reached about 110. In 1887 the village was by-passed by the Illinois Central Railroad and declined slowly"
"the idea that the Muscovites had stemmed from Meshech. Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1616) attributes this opinion to Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560) and to Benito Arias Montano (1571), and it was also followed later by Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758). Moreover, according to a legend first appearing in the ""Kievan Synopsis"" (1674), Moscow (""Moskva"") was founded by King Mosokh son of Japheth (i.e. Meshech), and was named for him and his wife, Kva. In this legend, they are also said to have had a son, Ya, and daughter, Vuza, who gave their names to the nearby Yauza river. According to Archibald Sayce, Meshech"
"Muscogee The Muscogee, also known as the Mvskoke, Creek and the Muscogee Creek Confederacy, are a related group of Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands. Mvskoke (; ) is their autonym. Their original homelands are in what now comprises southern Tennessee, all of Alabama, western Georgia and part of northern Florida. Most of the original population of the Muscogee people were forcibly relocated from their native lands in the 1830s during the Trail of Tears to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). Some Muscogee fled European encroachment in 1797 and 1804 to establish two small tribal territories that continue to exist today"
"Notes on Muscovite Affairs Notes on Muscovite Affairs (""Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii"") (1549) was a Latin book by Baron Sigismund von Herberstein on the geography, history and customs of Muscovy (the 16th century Russian state). The book was the main early source of knowledge about Russia in Western Europe. Herberstein was an Austrian diplomat who was twice sent to Russia as Austrian ambassador, in 1517 and 1526. Born in Vipava (German ""Wippach""), Carniola, he was familiar with Slovene, a Slavic language, which became important later on his mission in Russia, when he was able to communicate with ordinary Russians in Slovene,"
"Moskal Moskal (Russian and , , , , ; ) is a historical designation used for the residents of the Grand Duchy of Moscow from the 12th-18th centuries. Today it has become an ethnic slur referring to the Russians living in Russia used in Ukraine, Belarus, and Poland. The term is frequently derogatory or condescending, an equivalent of the Russian term ""Khokhol"" for Ukrainians. Another ethnic slur, ""katsap"", is insulting and means ""goatee beard"". Another version is that the word ""katsap"" comes from the Crimean ""kasab"" (butcher), because Muscovite soldiers carried large axes, which made them look like butchers. Initially,"
"Moscow, Iowa Moscow is an unincorporated community in northern Muscatine County, Iowa, United States. It lies along local roads just north of U.S. Route 6, north of the city of Muscatine, the county seat of Muscatine County. Its elevation is 653 feet (199 m). Although Moscow is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 52760, which opened on . The community is part of the Muscatine Micropolitan Statistical Area. Moscow was laid out in 1836 by Henry Webster and Dr. Charles Drury. Moscow experienced rapid growth with the arrival of the railroad in 1855. Hinkeyville is"
"Grand Duchy of Moscow The Grand Duchy of Moscow, Muscovite Rus' or Grand Principality of Moscow (, Velikoye Knyazhestvo Moskovskoye, also known in English simply as Muscovy from the ) was a Rus' principality of the Late Middle Ages centered around Moscow, and the predecessor state of the Tsardom of Russia in the early modern period. The state originated with Daniel I, who inherited Moscow in 1283, eclipsing and eventually absorbing its parent duchy of Vladimir-Suzdal by the 1320s. It later annexed the Novgorod Republic in 1478 and the Grand Duchy of Tver in 1485. After the Mongol invasion of"
"Michigan, Missouri and Tennessee in the second half of the 21st century. Muscogee The Muscogee, also known as the Mvskoke, Creek and the Muscogee Creek Confederacy, are a related group of Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands. Mvskoke (; ) is their autonym. Their original homelands are in what now comprises southern Tennessee, all of Alabama, western Georgia and part of northern Florida. Most of the original population of the Muscogee people were forcibly relocated from their native lands in the 1830s during the Trail of Tears to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). Some Muscogee fled European encroachment in 1797 and"
", , , , , , etc. In a similar manner the Latin name has been formed, later it became a colloquial name for Russia used in Western Europe in the 16th–17th centuries. From it as well came English ""Muscovy"" and ""muscovite"". Various other theories (of Celtic, Iranian, Caucasic origins), having little or no scientific ground, are now largely rejected by contemporary linguists. The oldest evidence of humans on the territory of Moscow dates from the Neolithic (Schukinskaya site on the Moscow River). Within the modern bounds of the city other late evidence was discovered (the burial ground of the"
"Muscogee (Creek) Nation The Muscogee (Creek) Nation is a federally recognized Native American tribe based in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The nation descends from the historic Creek Confederacy, a large group of indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands. Official languages include Muscogee, Yuchi, Natchez, Alabama, and Koasati, with Muscogee retaining the largest number of speakers. They commonly refer to themselves as Este Mvskokvlke (). Historically, they were often referred to as one of the Five Civilized Tribes of the American Southeast. The Muscogee (Creek) Nation is the largest of the federally recognized Muscogee tribes. The Muskogean-speaking Alabama, Koasati, Hitchiti,"
"Moscow, Kansas Moscow is a city in Stevens County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 310. The settlement of Moscow was established in 1887. One tradition says, the community was named for a member of de Soto's expedition, the maestro de campo (field commander) Luis de Moscoso (the source mistakenly indicates Francisco Coronado southwest expedition, but at this time Moscoso was a member of de Soto's expedition, furthermore he took command of the expedition after de Soto's death). During the settlement name registration there were a series of mistakes. The residents, in their application"
"Army (and later those of the Soviet Army) stationed in parts of present-day Ukraine and Poland became known as ""moskale"". ""Moskal"" is a stock character of the traditional Ukrainian puppet theatre form, vertep. ""Moskaliki"" is a Ukrainian designation for small fish typically used as bait or as a casual snack. It also gave rise to a number of East Slavic family names. Moskal Moskal (Russian and , , , , ; ) is a historical designation used for the residents of the Grand Duchy of Moscow from the 12th-18th centuries. Today it has become an ethnic slur referring to the"
"Muscovites and not Russians. When they are asked what nation they are, they respond 'Russac', which means 'Russians', and when they are asked what place they are from, the answer is Moscow, Vologda, Ryasan and other cities"". The closest analogue of the Latin term ""Moscovia"" in Russia was “Tsardom of Moscow”, or “Moscow Tsardom” (), which was used along with the name ""Russia"", sometimes in one sentence, as in the name of the 17th century Russian work ""On the Great and Glorious Russian Moscow State"" (). By the 16th century, the Russian ruler had emerged as a powerful, autocratic figure,"
"where Moscow now stands, and they decided to name it Moscow after his native city in Russia.Previous to locating Moscow, there was a trading post about one mile southeast of here. The above mentioned Russian was successful in getting a post office here, and the trading post, which was known as Paradise Valley, was abolished.The surrounding country was known as Horse Heaven Country, account grass grew well, and the Indians grazed large herds of horses.""Original document at the University of Montana, Mike and Maureen Mansfield Library, K. Ross Toole Archives, Collection 178, Box 210, Folder 10."" The capital of the"
"one who is sitting above (us)""). Creek mythology Creek mythology is related to a Creek Native American tribe who are originally from the southeastern United States, also known by their original name Muscogee (or Muskogee), the name they use to identify themselves today. ""Mvskoke"" is their name in traditional spelling. Modern Muscogees live primarily in Oklahoma, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Their language, ""Mvskoke"", is a member of the Creek branch of the Muskogean language family. The Seminole are close kin to the Muscogee and speak a Creek language as well. The Creeks were considered one of the Five Civilized Tribes."
"is located on east of Moscow. GNIS feature ID 481338. Moscow, Kansas Moscow is a city in Stevens County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 310. The settlement of Moscow was established in 1887. One tradition says, the community was named for a member of de Soto's expedition, the maestro de campo (field commander) Luis de Moscoso (the source mistakenly indicates Francisco Coronado southwest expedition, but at this time Moscoso was a member of de Soto's expedition, furthermore he took command of the expedition after de Soto's death). During the settlement name registration there"
"Mushki The Mushki were an Iron Age people of Anatolia who appear in sources from Assyria but not from the Hittites. Several authors have connected them with the Moschoi (Μόσχοι) of Greek sources and the Georgian tribe of the Meskhi. Josephus Flavius identified the ""Moschoi"" with the Biblical Meshech. Two different groups are called ""Muški"" in Assyrian sources (Diakonoff 1984:115), one from the 12th to the 9th centuries near the confluence of the Arsanias and the Euphrates (""Eastern Mushki"") and the other from the 8th to the 7th centuries in Cappadocia and Cilicia (""Western Mushki""). Assyrian sources identify the Western"
"as early as the 12th century, ""moskal"" referred to the residents of ""Moscovia"", the word literally translating as ""Muscovite"" (differentiating the residents of the Grand Duchy of Moscow from other East Slavs such as people from White Ruthenia (Belarusians), Red Ruthenia (Galicians) and others). With time, the word became an archaism in all the East Slavic languages, and survived only as a family name in each of those languages—see below. The negative connotation, however, came in around the late 18th-early 19th centuries in the form of an ethnic slur labelling all Russians. At that time, soldiers of the Imperial Russian"
"in Old Russian). Moscow is also one of the twelve Hero Cities. The demonym for a Moscow resident is """" (""moskvich"") for male or ""ка"" (""moskvichka"") for female, rendered in English as ""Muscovite"". The name ""Moscow"" is abbreviated ""MSK"" (МСК in Russian). The name of the city is thought to be derived from the name of the Moskva River. There have been proposed several theories of the origin of the name of the river. Finno-Ugric Merya and Muroma people, who were among the several Early Eastern Slavic tribes which originally inhabited the area, called the river supposedly ""Mustajoki"". It has"
"created a highly centralized and autocratic political system. The political traditions established in Muscovy, therefore, exerted a powerful influence on the future development of Russian society. Grand Duchy of Moscow The Grand Duchy of Moscow, Muscovite Rus' or Grand Principality of Moscow (, Velikoye Knyazhestvo Moskovskoye, also known in English simply as Muscovy from the ) was a Rus' principality of the Late Middle Ages centered around Moscow, and the predecessor state of the Tsardom of Russia in the early modern period. The state originated with Daniel I, who inherited Moscow in 1283, eclipsing and eventually absorbing its parent duchy"
"Mongoloid Mongoloid () is a grouping of various peoples indigenous to Asia, North America, South America, and the Pacific Islands (with some exceptions). It is one of the outdated three races proposed by Georges Cuvier in the 18th century, the other two groups being Caucasoid and Negroid. Individuals within these populations often share certain associated phenotypic traits, such as epicanthic folds, sino- or sundadonty, shovel-shaped incisors and neoteny. The concept of ""Mongoloid"" races is historical referring to a grouping of human beings historically regarded as a biological taxon. It is today not widely used by anthropologists as its validity and"
"transformed into the political claim over the territory of all the former Kievan Rus', a goal that the Moscow duke came closer to by the end of that century, uniting eastern Rus'. Such claims raised much opposition and hostility from its main rival, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which controlled a large (western) portion of the land of ancient Rus' and hence denied any claims and even the self-name of the eastern neighbour. Under the Polish-Lithuanian influence the country began to be called Muscovy (, Muscovy, ) in Western Europe. The first appearances of the term were in an Italian"
"Great Russia Great Russia, sometimes Great Rus' (, , , , , ), is an obsolete name formerly applied to the territories of ""Russia proper"", the land that formed the core of Muscovy and later Russia. This was the land to which the ethnic Russians were native and where the ethnogenesis of (Great) Russians took place. The name is said to have come from the Greek , used by Byzantines for the northern part of the lands of Rus'. From 1654–1721, Russian Tsars adopted the word - their official title included the wording (literal translation): ""The Sovereign of all Rus':"
"race"" as a more ""appropriately neutral, modern term"". Mongoloid Mongoloid () is a grouping of various peoples indigenous to Asia, North America, South America, and the Pacific Islands (with some exceptions). It is one of the outdated three races proposed by Georges Cuvier in the 18th century, the other two groups being Caucasoid and Negroid. Individuals within these populations often share certain associated phenotypic traits, such as epicanthic folds, sino- or sundadonty, shovel-shaped incisors and neoteny. The concept of ""Mongoloid"" races is historical referring to a grouping of human beings historically regarded as a biological taxon. It is today not"
"Mascouten The Mascouten (also ""Mascoutin"", ""Mathkoutench"", ""Muscoden,"" or ""Musketoon"") were a tribe of Algonquian-speaking Native Americans located in the Midwest. They are believed to have dwelt on both sides of the Mississippi River, adjacent to the present-day Wisconsin-Illinois border, after being driven out of Michigan by the Odawa. They are first mentioned in historic records by French missionaries, who described the people as inhabiting the southern area of present-day Michigan. The missionaries reported the Mascouten as being more populous than all the Neutral Nation, the Huron, and the Iroquois nations, put together. In 1712, the Mascouten united with the Kickapoo"
"illustrating ""The Tale"". The Tale of the Princes of Vladimir The Tale of the Princes of Vladimir () is an early 16th-century Muscovite treatise which propounds the conception of Moscow as the Third Rome. The book traces the male-line descent of Muscovy's royal family not only from Rurik, but from a certain Prus, to whom his uncle, Emperor Augustus, gave the northern part of the world, which later came to be known as ""Prussia"". These claims to imperial heritage are further shored up by the story of Monomakh's Cap, a purported imperial crown which Constantine IX Monomachos of Byzantium is"
"another Slavic language. These visits occurred at a time when very little was known about Russia outside the region. The few published descriptions of Russia were in some cases wildly inaccurate. ""Muscovy"" in the 16th century was the Russian state which separated itself from the Kievan Rus' after it fell apart. It evolved into the Russian Empire under Peter the Great starting at the end of the 17th century. Russia was the region, Muscovy was the state until it no longer included just Moscow. Muscovy was then ruled by the Muscovite monarchy, starting with Ivan III (1462–1505), who expanded Muscovy,"
"in Russia. The two names ""Russia"" and ""Moscovia"" appear to have co-existed as interchangeable during the later 16th and throughout the 17th century with different Western maps and sources using different names, so that the country was called """"Russia, or Moscovia"""" () or """"Russia, popularly known as Moscovia"""" (). In England of the 16th century, it was known both as Russia and Muscovy. Such notable Englishmen as Giles Fletcher, author of the book ""Of the Russe Common Wealth"" (1591), and Samuel Collins, author of ""The Present State of Russia"" (1668), both of whom visited Russia, were familiar with the term"
"Meskwaki The Meskwaki (sometimes spelled Mesquakie) are a Native American people often known to European-Americans as the Fox tribe. They have been closely linked to the Sauk people of the same language family. In the Meskwaki language, the Meskwaki call themselves """", which means ""the Red-Earths"", related to their creation story. Historically their homelands were in the Great Lakes region. The tribe coalesced in the St. Lawrence River Valley in present-day Ontario, Canada. Under French colonial pressures, it migrated to the southern side of the Great Lakes to territory that much later was organized by European Americans as the states"
"Nakota The term Nakota (or Nakoda or also ""Nakona"") is the endonym used by those native peoples of North America who usually go by the name of ""Assiniboine"" (or ""Hohe""), in the United States, and of Stoney, in Canada. They are Dakotan-speaking tribes that broke away from the main branches of the Sioux nation in earlier times. They moved farther from the original territory of the woodlands of present-day Minnesota into the northern and northwestern regions: Montana and North Dakota of the present-day United States and Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta of present-day Canada. Later they became competitors for resources and"
"The Tale of the Princes of Vladimir The Tale of the Princes of Vladimir () is an early 16th-century Muscovite treatise which propounds the conception of Moscow as the Third Rome. The book traces the male-line descent of Muscovy's royal family not only from Rurik, but from a certain Prus, to whom his uncle, Emperor Augustus, gave the northern part of the world, which later came to be known as ""Prussia"". These claims to imperial heritage are further shored up by the story of Monomakh's Cap, a purported imperial crown which Constantine IX Monomachos of Byzantium is supposed to have"
"been suggested that the name of the city derives from this term. The most linguistically well grounded and widely accepted is from the Proto-Balto-Slavic root *""mŭzg""-/""muzg""- from the Proto-Indo-European *""""- ""wet"", so the name ""Moskva"" might signify a river at a wetland or a marsh. Its cognates include , ""pool, puddle"", and ""to wash"", ""to drown"", ""to dip, immerse"". In many Slavic countries Moskov is a surname, most common in Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine and Macedonia. There exist as well similar place names in Poland like Mozgawa. The original Old Russian form of the name is reconstructed as *, *, hence"