Moscow, called Moskva in Russia, has pretty much always been called that. It is named for the river that it is located on, the Moskva River, originally "Grad Moskov" the city by the Moskva River.
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One of Rome's foundation legends tells of the twin brothers Romulus and Remus. They were said to have been descendants of Venus (as descendants of Aeneas) and fathered by Mars. When they became...
Since Rome was then the HQ of the Church of the West, and Constantinople has fallen to the Turks, The Orthodox Church found it suitable to reassign Moscow as The Center of Orthodoxy Christianity,...