1 / 7

kiev

kiev. by george luna. History.

tien
Download Presentation

kiev

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. kiev by george luna

  2. History • During its history, Kiev, one of the oldest cities in the Eastern Europe, passed through several stages of great prominence and relative obscurity. Considered founded in the fifthcentury, a trading post in the land of Early East Slavs, the city gradually acquired eminence as the center of the East Slavic civilization, in the tenth to twelfth centuries a political and cultural capital of Rus', a medieval East Slavic state. Completely destroyed during the Mongolinvasion in 1240, the city lost most of its influence for the centuries to come.

  3. map of surrounding areas

  4. kiev over the years The city prospered again during the Russian industrial revolution in the late 19th century. After the turbulent period following the Russian Revolution of 1917, from 1921 Kiev was an important city of Soviet Ukraine, and, since 1934, its capital. During World War II, the city was destroyed again, almost completely, but quickly recovered in the post-war years becoming the third most important city of the USSR. It now remains the capital of Ukraine, independent since 1991 following the collapse of the Soviet

  5. population 2,642,486

  6. Kiev from above

  7. The end

More Related