Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A region of western Ukraine south of the Carpathian Mountains. Ruled for centuries by various powers, including Poland and Austria-Hungary, it was later a province of Czechoslovakia (1918–1939) and was annexed by the USSR in 1945.
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- proper noun The territory of
Eastern Europe inhabited byRusyns , on the slopes of the Carpathian Mountains in parts of Ukraine, Poland and Slovakia. - proper noun historical Lands inhabited by Ukrainians (
Ruthenians ) of the former Austrian Empire kingdom ofGalicia (1772–1918), corresponding to parts of Western Ukraine. - proper noun historical Western East-Slavic lands, including the principalities of Halych-Volynia and Kiev, which united with Lithuania and Poland (14th c–1772), corresponding to parts of Belarus and Ukraine.
- proper noun historical
Rus , an East Slavic medieval state (880–12th c), corresponding to parts of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. - proper noun
Russia (Latin)
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Examples
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The area we generally speak of as Ruthenia today is in the western Ukraine stradling the borders of Slovakia, Hungary and Romania.
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A Note on 'Ruthenia' - The New York Review of Books
A Note on 'Ruthenia' Draper, Theodore H. 1993
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The question of "Ruthenia" has come up again in two letters to The New York Review.
A Note on 'Ruthenia' Draper, Theodore H. 1993
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One letter by Paul Robert Magocsi of the Multicultural History Society of Ontario claims that Rita Klimovà and I were both wrong on the subject of "Ruthenia" in our exchange of letters in The New York Review of April 8.
A Note on 'Ruthenia' Draper, Theodore H. 1993
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I recall having dinner with a diplomat in Prague who calmly said that he was leaving for a visit to "Ruthenia" the next day — and he did not mean the Ukraine.
'The End of Czechoslovakia': An Exchange Klimova, Rita 1993
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Ruskie has nothing to do with Russia but Red Ruthenia or Eastern Galacia, which is now part of Ukraine.
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By mid-August the Belorussian and Polish fronts had collapsed, and the Soviets were approaching the borders of the historic German province of East Prussia in the north and were into Ruthenia, the far eastern tip of what had once been Czechoslovakia.
Deathride John Mosier 2010
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By mid-August the Belorussian and Polish fronts had collapsed, and the Soviets were approaching the borders of the historic German province of East Prussia in the north and were into Ruthenia, the far eastern tip of what had once been Czechoslovakia.
Deathride John Mosier 2010
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As a child, until 1914, she had been a subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; between 1919 and 1938, Uzhgorod was the capital of Ruthenia, an autonomous province of Czechoslovakia; during World War II, the region was occupied by the Nazis, who gave it to their satrapy Hungary; after the war, the U.S.S.R. annexed the area, and Uzhgorod became the administrative center of Transcarpathia, the southwesternmost province of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008
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The final straw came when the king mistreated the wives of soldiers who were on a protracted war against Ruthenia.
Archive 2006-04-01 2006
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