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Post  fearlove Tue Nov 15, 2011 7:00 am

The Grand Duchy of Moscow (Russian: Великое Княжество Московское, Velikoye Knyazhestvo Moskovskoye, correctly Grand Principality of Moscow, also known in English as Muscovy) was a late medieval Rus' principality centered on Moscow, and the predecessor state of the early modern Tsardom of Russia.
The Grand Duchy of Moscow grew from just 20,000 km2 in 1300 to 430,000 in 1462., 2.8 million in 1533, 5.4 million by 1584.[1] It is taken to originate with Daniel I who inherited the town in 1283, eclipsing and eventually absorbing its parent duchy of Vladimir-Suzdal by the 1320s. The power of Moscow expanded further, annexing the

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