Ukrainian hryvnia
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The hryvnia has been the national currency of Ukraine since 2 September 1996. Each hryvnia, the base unit, is divided into 100 kopiyka. It is named after a measure of weight used in Kievan Rus'.
11th–12th century Kyiv hryvnia, as reproduced by the National Bank of Ukraine
100 hryvnias note of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1918)
Obverse of a 20 Ukrainian hryvnia banknote, 2018
Coins of the Ukrainian hryvnia 08
Kievan Rus'
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Kievan Rus', also known as Kyivan Rus', was the first East Slavic state and, later, an amalgam of principalities, in Eastern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century. Encompassing a variety of
Ukrainian hryvnia
…the base unit, is divided into 100 kopiyka (sometimes called kopecks in English; Ukrainian: копійка). It is named after a measure of weight used in Kievan Rus'. The currency of Kievan Rus' in the 11th century was the grivna. The word is thought to derive from the Slavic griva; which compares with the Ukrainian…
The Invitation of the Varangians by Viktor Vasnetsov: Rurik and his brothers Sineus and Truvor arrive at the lands of the Ilmen Slavs.
East-Slavic tribes and peoples, 8th–9th centuries
Rus' under the walls of Constantinople (860), the Radziwiłł Chronicle
Princess Olga's avenge to the Drevlians, Radziwiłł Chronicle