Aldeigjuborg: The Lost Viking City near Europe's Largest Lake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4AOcRFwN9k

Very interesting and well made video. It tells the beginnings of place known as Staraya Ladoga in Russian and called Aldeigjuborg in Norse.

It was located near the Ladoga lake, in the area were Balts, Finno-Ugric, Slavic tribes and Norse craftsmen coexisted.

Also the way how some facts were conducted with some pictures of sites, very well made.

Another thing worth mentioning imo despite how far from West Europe this place was and somehow the area was on the trading routes from Byzantine/Middle East to North Europe.

I guess Russians here know about this place and can tell much more so if you think there is something missing in the video please leave a post below

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Originally Posted by Zohor

I guess Russians here know about this place and can tell much more so if you think there is something missing in the video please leave a post below

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Lyubshanskaya fortress, built at the end of the 7th century.
https://i.ibb.co/YdvP6Vy/4272px-Mapcarta.jpg

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Originally Posted by Ugo

Lyubshanskaya fortress, built at the end of the 7th century.
https://i.ibb.co/YdvP6Vy/4272px-Mapcarta.jpg

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I suppose it's in the same area
Whose settlement was it? Slavic, Finnic or someone else?

very interesting thanks for sharing :eek:

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Originally Posted by Zohor

I suppose it's in the same area
Whose settlement was it? Slavic, Finnic or someone else?

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These were the Krivichi Slavs. The fortress is abandoned, located on the private territory of the hotel and is not guarded by anyone.

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Originally Posted by Ugo

These were the Krivichi Slavs. The fortress is abandoned, located on the private territory of the hotel and is not guarded by anyone.

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Sounds like a nice place for Urbex etc

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Originally Posted by Ugo

Any historian knows that states are created in places of trade. Hoards of coins are markers of these places. This is a treasure map of 9th century Arab coins. It was with the Arab countries that the Russian khaganate traded. There are absolutely no treasures on the map in the area of the middle Dnieper and Kiev. Only the Desna, the upper course of the Dnieper, Volkhov, Oka and Volga-Don. It was this trade route that the Russ and the Russian khaganate used. It was only at the turn of the IX-X centuries that the Russ took possession of the Dnieper. There is not a single historian who would disagree with this.
https://i.ibb.co/p670hV9/483912-original.jpg

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I quote this here because the map also shows the evidence of potential meetings of Arabs and Vikings in the area of Russia, who would have thought