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 230 THE HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL EUROPE barbarous people of Asiatic and nomadic origin. Northwest of them were the Russians, with the two chief towns of Kiev in the south and Novgorod in the north. Northeast and east of the Petchenegs, in what is now eastern Russia, were the Khazars, the only barbarians in Europe who were converted to the Jewish faith. West of the Petchenegs lay a territory disputed between them and the Magyars of Hungary.