Moscovia (region)

Moscovia is a historical region in Central Russia. The region was for a long period for its eastern and western neighbours a pristine and unknown place where different Russian folks and tribes lived. The development of its Russian cultures emerged from the people and their way of life in Russian forests, rivers and steppes. The name Moscovia derived from the city Moscow respectively Moskva river and was shaped and known to its neighbors through the Russian Moscovian state which emerged in the 13th century. Particularly Finno-Ugric tribes like for example the Muromian people and Slavic tribes like the Vyatichs lived in the are of todays Moscow and the Moskva river. The culture of Moscovia and other Russian lands surround it arose from the Russian people, their lands and rivers like the Tarusa and Rusa.[1]