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Ruthenians. Ruthenian Greek Catholic, Ukrainian Greek Catholic, Russian Greek Catholic Church among other Byzantine rites originally from Slavic origins. Ruthenian and Ruthene are exonyms of Latin origin, formerly used in Eastern and Central Europe as common ethnonyms for East Slavs, particularly during the late medieval and early modern periods.
Ruthenian and Ruthene are exonyms of Latin origin, formerly used in Eastern and Central Europe as common ethnonyms for East Slavs, particularly during the late medieval and early modern periods. The Latin term Rutheni was used in medieval sources to describe all Eastern Slavs of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, as an exonym for people of the former Kievan Rus', thus including ancestors of the ...
May 29, 2018 · CARPATHO-RUSYNS. Carpatho-Rusyns (also known as Ruthenians or by the regional names Lemkos and Rusnaks) come from an area in the geographical center of the European continent. Their homeland, Carpathian Rus (Ruthenia), is located on the southern and northern slopes of the Carpathian Mountains where the borders of Ukraine, Slovakia, and Poland meet.
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The Ruthenians also suffered under the massive emigration movement which tempted hundreds of thousands abroad or as work migrants into the industrial areas of the Monarchy. An outstanding personality in this context was the man of letters, translator and journalist Ivan Franko (1856–1916), who during his studies in Vienna described a gloomy ...
Paul Robert Magocsi, a US historian of Ruthenian descent, says the Ruthenians are a Slav people inhabiting the western slopes of the Carpathians, Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland and the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina. They speak a range of East Slavic dialects, use the Cyrillic alphabet and are traditionally Uniate or Orthodox Christians.
