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Ruthenia [a] is an exonym ... after World War II, ... Archived 13 September 2012 at archive.today - a book review of Ales Biely's Chronicle of Ruthenia Alba
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
The Ruthenian nobility (Ukrainian: Руська шляхта, romanized: Ruska shlyakhta; Belarusian: Руская шляхта, romanized: Ruskaja šlachta; Polish: szlachta ruska) originated in the territories of Kievan Rus' and Galicia–Volhynia, which were incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and later the Russian and Austrian Empires.
The most common theory about the origins of Russians is the Germanic version. The name Rus ', like the Proto-Finnic name for Sweden (*roocci), [2] supposed to be descended from an Old Norse term for "the men who row" (rods-) as rowing was the main method of navigating the rivers of Eastern Europe, and that it could be linked to the Swedish coastal area of Roslagen or Roden, as it was known in ...
In interwar Czechoslovakia, Ruthenia was called Rusinsko in Czech; ... We know not such people on the world's map." [29] Europe Today. In Europe today, some tensions ...
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.
Ruthenians of Kholm in 1861.Ruthenians of Podlachia in the second half of the 19th century.. In the interbellum period of the 20th century, the term rusyn (Ruthenian) was also applied to people from the Kresy Wschodnie (the eastern borderlands) in the Second Polish Republic, and included Ukrainians, Rusyns, and Lemkos, or alternatively, members of the Uniate or Greek Catholic Churches.
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]