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Kurya

fl. 972 · 10th century

Kurya was a khan of the Pechenegs, the Turkic nomads of the steppe north of the Black Sea. In 972 his warriors ambushed Prince Sviatoslav I of Kiev at the Dnieper rapids as he returned from his war against Byzantium, and killed him. According to the Russian Primary Chronicle, Kurya had Sviatoslav's skull made into a drinking cup.

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