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Ruthenia [a] is an exonym, originally used in Medieval Latin, as one of several terms for Kievan Rus'. [1] It is also used to refer to the East Slavic and Eastern Orthodox regions of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland, and later the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, corresponding to the territories of modern Belarus, Ukraine ...
History. Ruteni, a misnomer that was also the name of an extinct and unrelated Celtic tribe in Ancient Gaul, [7] was used in reference to Rus' in the Annales Augustani of 1089. [7] . An alternative early modern Latinisation, Rucenus (plural Ruceni) was, according to Boris Unbegaun, derived from Rusyn. [7] .
Carpathian Ruthenia (Rusyn: Карпатьска Русь, romanized: Karpat'ska Rus') is a historical region on the border between Central and Eastern Europe, mostly located in western Ukraine's Zakarpattia Oblast, with smaller parts in eastern Slovakia (largely in Prešov Region and Košice Region) and the Lemko Region in Poland.
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In modern English historiography, common names for the ancient East Slavic state include Kievan Rus, (sometimes retaining the apostrophe in Rus ', a transliteration of the soft sign, ь), or Kievan Ruthenia.
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.
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Ruthenia (rōōthē´nēə), Latinized form of the word Russia. The term was applied to Ukraine in the Middle Ages when the princes of Halych briefly assumed the title kings of Ruthenia. Source for information on Ruthenia: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. dictionary.
Red Ruthenia (except for Podolia) was conquered by the Austrian Empire in 1772 during the First Partition of Poland, remaining part of the empire until 1918. Between World Wars I and II, it belonged to the Second Polish Republic.