Note 051
From Chapter 55 of the Decline & Fall

In hac magna civitate, quae est caput regni, plus trecentae ecclesiae habentur et nundinae octo, populi etiam ignota manus (Eggehardus ad A.D. 1018, apud Bayer,tom. ix. p. 412).

He likewise quotes (tom. x. p. 397) the words of the Saxon annalist,

Cujus (Russiae) metropolis est Chive, aemula sceptri Constantinopolitani, quae est clarissimum decus Graeciae.

The fame of Kiow, especially in the 11th century, had reached the German and Arabian geographers.

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