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Rus' land/Ruthenia in yellow, Kievan Rus' under Oleg the Wise in gray, 862-912. Ruthenia [a] is an exonym, originally used in Medieval Latin, as one of several terms for Rus'. [1] Originally, the term Rus' land referred to a triangular area, which mainly corresponds to the tribe of Polans in Dnieper Ukraine. [2]
Black Ruthenia (Latin: Ruthenia Nigra), or Black Rus' (Belarusian: Чорная Русь, romanized: Čornaja Ruś; Lithuanian: Juodoji Rusia; Polish: Ruś Czarna), is a historical region on the Upper Neman, including Novogrudok, Grodno and Slonim. [1] Besides these, other important parts of Black Rus' are Vawkavysk and Białystok. [2]
The Principality or, from 1253, Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, [a] also known as the Kingdom of Ruthenia or Kingdom of Rus', [2] [b] also Kingdom of Halych–Volhynian [c] was a medieval state in Eastern Europe which existed from 1199 to 1349.
Today some 30,000 Romanians live in this region, mostly in northern Maramureș, around the southern towns of Rahău/Rakhiv and Teceu Mare/Tiachiv and close to the border with Romania. However, there also are Romanians in Carpathian Ruthenia living outside Maramureș, mostly in the village of Poroshkovo .
1918 map of the "White Ruthenian Democratic Republic" in French. On the 1712 map of French cartographer Henri Chatelain "Russie noire" (Black Ruthenia) is placed in region of Eastern Galicia (today Western Ukraine), which traditionally known as "Russie rouge" (Red Ruthenia).
Established in the end of World War I out of Austria-Hungary, including Carpathian Ruthenia (since 1991 mostly part of Ukraine). Occupied and partially annexed by Nazi Germany and Hungary in 1938–9, during which Carpatho-Ukraine was an autonomous region within the Second Czechoslovak Republic rump state. Dnieper–Donets culture: Prehistoric
Carpathian Ruthenia, a historical region inhabited mostly by Rusyns (Rusynia) Ruthenian Voivodeship, a historical province (1434–1772) Peoples.
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