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Carpathian Ruthenia was a region in the easternmost part of Czechoslovakia (Subcarpathian Ruthenia, or Transcarpathia) that became an autonomous region within that country in September 1938. It declared its independence as the "Republic of Carpatho-Ukraine " in 15 March 1939; however, it was occupied and annexed by Hungary the same day.
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.
The name Carpathian Ruthenia is sometimes used for the contiguous cross-border area of Ukraine, Slovakia and Poland inhabited by Ruthenians.The local Ruthenian population self-identifies in different ways: some consider themselves to be a separate and unique Slavic group of Rusyns and some consider themselves to be both Rusyns and Ukrainians.
Voloshyn was born 17 March 1874 in Kelecsény, Carpathian Ruthenia, Máramaros County, Austria-Hungary (now Kelechyn, Ukraine). He studied at the Ungvár (now Uzhhorod, Ukraine) School of Theology and at Budapest University. He became a Greek Catholic priest [4] and in 1924 was appointed a papal chamberlain (thus gaining the title of Monsignor).
The term refers to Carpathian Ruthenia (Karpatsʹka Rusʹ), which is a historical cross-border region encompassing Subcarpathian Rus' (in northeastern Slovakia and Ukraine's Zakarpattia Oblast), Prešov Region (in eastern Slovakia), the Lemko Region (in southeastern Poland), and Maramureş (in north-central Romania).
The Holocaust. Jews from Carpathian Ruthenia arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944. During World War II, once the legal government of Hungary was overthrown by the Germans, the "Final Solution" of the Holocaust was also extended to Carpathian Ruthenia. To be sure, the legal government of Hungary and its fascist elements had already played a ...
Extent of Kievan Rus', 1054–1132. Ruthenia[a] is an exonym, originally used in Medieval Latin, as one of several terms for Kievan Rus'. [1] It is used to refer to Rus' region, a triangular area which mainly corresponds to the tribe of Polans in Dnieper Ukraine. [2] It is also used to refer to the East Slavic and Eastern Orthodox people of the ...
The Principality or, from 1253, Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, [a] also known as the Kingdom of Ruthenia or Kingdom of Rus/Russia, [2][better source needed][b] was a medieval state in Eastern Europe which existed from 1199 to 1349. Its territory was predominantly located in modern-day Ukraine, with parts in Belarus, Poland, Moldova, and Lithuania.