What kind of prominent centers were novgorod and kiev

Kievan Rus was a loose federation of East Slavic and Finnic peoples in Europe from the late ... He extended his control from Novgorod south along the Dnieper river valley to protect trade from Khazar incursions ... In the south, in the area around Kiev, were the Poliane, a group of Slavicized tribes with Iranian origins

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