One word is stumping me...

[raventhourne.livejournal.com]

I have a beautiful book on the Novgorod digs called
история мировой культуры, Pеред Nашествием, Cокровища оикумены Edited by Andrei Zhuravlev from Book House Publishers 2005. I believe that the first part is World History and Culture Before the Invasion (before Mongols hit in 1250). But the last phrase is something about treasure and I'm not finding оикумены in any of my dictionaries. Is my interpretation correct?

Comments

[avoider.livejournal.com]

here is the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oikoumene
and here is the discussion about it's meaning in Russian and English http://community.livejournal.com/ru_translate/8921979.html

[lvova.livejournal.com]

Ойкумена
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumene

[raventhourne.livejournal.com]

Okay, so would that mean "the world's treasures" since the objects in the book are have great archaeological significance?

I'm sorry, I can't ready much from the lj community post (I'm just learning basics right now).

[thevile.livejournal.com]

There is a river also... And a fiction book "На краю реки Ойкумены"

[stanislav-mikov.livejournal.com]

There's no such river, it's a fiction =) See above =)

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

The book, if you mean Ivan Yefremov's history fiction about a young Greek and his Egyptian and African friends, is called simply "On the edge of Oikoumene" ("На краю Ойкумены"). No river is mentioned there. Oikoumene was the name for the world known to ancient Greeks, not for a river.

[raventhourne.livejournal.com]

I get that there is a fiction reference by my book is an archaeological text. So for my sense does the word mean Treasures of the world or for the world?

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

I was answering to somebody else's comment, not to your post :)
In your case, "Сокровища Ойкумены", the latter word is in genitive (if it would be in dative, it'd be "Сокровища Ойкумене"), so it is definitely "Treasures of the world". I'll tell you more, it's "Treasures of [foreign] word," because Oikoumene is something that lies behind the borders of the speaker's own land.

correction

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

It must be "Treasures of [foreign] world," not "Treasures of [foreign] word." Just a typo.