According to Wikipedia, “Mahmud al-Kashgari was an 11th-century Kara-Khanid scholar and lexicographer of the Turkic languages from Kashgar. His father, Husayn, was the mayor of Barsgan, a town in the southeastern part of the lake of Issyk-Kul (nowadays the village of Barskoon in Northern Kyrgyzstan’s Issyk-Kul Region) and related to the ruling dynasty of Kara-Khanid Khanate. Around 1057 C.E., Mahmud al-Kashgari became a political refugee, before settling down in Baghdad.
Al-Kashgari studied the Turkic languages of his time and in Baghdad, he compiled the first comprehensive dictionary of Turkic languages, the Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk (English: “Compendium of the languages of the Turks“) in 1072–74… His book also included the first known map of the areas inhabited by Turkic peoples. This map is housed at the National Library in Istanbul.”
It is also the first known map showing the area of the Rus and, as can be seen, in 1074, the Rus are shown dwelling to the east of the Caspian Sea and to the north of the city of Derbent in the Caucasus. It is the area of the Kuban region nowadays.
Another notable fact is that for al-Kashgari, the Rus were not the same as the Slavs/ Saqualiba.
In 920, al-Masudi stated that the Rus was the NATION living on the Black Sea coast >
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