Muscovy
Muscovy (also Latin and Italian: Moscovia, French: Moscovie; spelling variants Moskovia, Muskovy; in Russian: Московия) is a historico-geographical term, used in the 16th–17th centuries in Western Europe for the Grand Duchy of Moscow and Tsardom of Russia.[1] It may also refer to one of the following:
- The Grand Duchy of Moscow, changed to the Tsardom of Russia by Tsar Ivan IV in 1547.
- Moscovia Monastery
- Muscovy Company
- Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata)
- Muscovy glass or muscovite, a mineral
- Muscovy Levee, on the Lytle Creek, in Muscoy, San Bernardino County, California
- Muscovy lilac, a variety of the common lilac (Syringa vulgaris)
- Muscovy Street, in the City of London, near the Tower of London
- Moskovia Airlines
- A term for a "parallel world" Russia in Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials
- "Moscovia", a collective name for the city and its associated wilderness in the Ragnarok Online MMORPG game
References
- ^ Хорошкевич, А. Л. (1976). "Россия и Московия: Из истории политико-географической терминологии" [Khoroshkevich A. L. Russia and Muscovy: from the history of politico-geographic terminology]. Acta Baltico-slavica. X: 47–57.
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