Slawiya, as-Slawiya ( Ṣ(a)lāwiya[ Oriental Sources on Old East Slavs, by An. Novoseltsev] The two other centers were Artania ( ’Arṯāniya) (not properly explained) & Kuyaba ( Kūyāba; usually identified with Kiev).
Slawiya is described as the most remote groups of the Rus', together with Kuyaba and Arthania they are involved in extensive international trade relations, in particular with the Muslim East. In Ibn Hawqal describing it is called primary in relation to the other two groups.
Modern historiography tends to identify as-Slawiya with the Novgorodian lands.
See also
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Garðaríki ("the realm of towns")
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Rus' Khaganate
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Novgorod Republic
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Kievan Rus'
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Old Novgorod dialect
