الروس

الروس

The Rus as Ibn Khurdadhbih records them — a people of the Saqaliba whose merchants carry beaver and black-fox pelts and swords from farthest Slav-land to the Roman sea, paying a tithe to its lord; or down the Slavs' river past Khamlij, the Khazar capital, paying its lord likewise, then out onto the Caspian — five hundred farsakhs across — and sometimes bearing their goods overland from Jurjan by camel to Baghdad, using Slavic interpreters and professing Christianity so as to pay jizya ¹.