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There are 15 different meanings of Muscovy.
His Dark Materials
2 products, approx. 46 pages
A term for a "parallel world" Russia in Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials
Ragnarok Online
1 product, approx. 23 pages
"Moscovia" is a collective name for the city and its associated wilderness in the Ragnarok Online MMORPG game.
Muscovy Duck
1 product, approx. 6 pages
Muscovy Duck (Cairina moschata).
Common Lilac
1 product, approx. 1 pages
Muscovy Lilac, a variety of the Common Lilac (Syringa vulgaris).
Muscovite
1 product, approx. 1 pages
Muscovy Glass or Muscovite, a mineral.
Antonio Possevino
1 product, approx. 1 pages
Muscovia (book) (1586) by Antonio Possevino [1]
"Muscovy" and "Muscovites" continued to be used (sometimes disparaginly) for "Russia" and "Russians", long after it ceased to be the formal name, and also in times when Moscow was not the capital of Russia (e.g. Disraeli, in a letter to Queen Victoria, proposed "to clear Central Asia of Muscovites").

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