Muscovy (disambiguation)

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

1. ↑ 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.