Ruthenia

Ruthenia synonyms

Subcarpathian Rus compare Ruthenia and Subcarpathian Rus
Carpathian Ruthenia compare Ruthenia and Carpathian Ruthenia
Galicia-Volhynia compare Ruthenia and Galicia-Volhynia
Red Ruthenia compare Ruthenia and Red Ruthenia
Kievan Russia compare Ruthenia and Kievan Russia
Kievan Rus compare Ruthenia and Kievan Rus
Zakarpattia compare Ruthenia and Zakarpattia
Kiev compare Ruthenia and Kiev
Kyiv Rus compare Ruthenia and Kyiv Rus
Kyïvan Rus compare Ruthenia and Kyïvan Rus
Kievan state compare Ruthenia and Kievan state
Kyyiv Rus compare Ruthenia and Kyyiv Rus
Carpatho-Ukraine compare Ruthenia and Carpatho-Ukraine
Kyyivan Rus compare Ruthenia and Kyyivan Rus
Kyivan Rus compare Ruthenia and Kyivan Rus
Kiev Rus compare Ruthenia and Kiev Rus
Kyjivan Rus compare Ruthenia and Kyjivan Rus
Kyivan state compare Ruthenia and Kyivan state
Kyiv compare Ruthenia and Kyiv
Kyïv Rus compare Ruthenia and Kyïv Rus
Kievan Rus' compare Ruthenia and Kievan Rus'
Kyivan Rus' compare Ruthenia and Kyivan Rus'
Kievan Rus compare Ruthenia and Kievan Rus
Rus compare Ruthenia and Rus
Zakarpattia compare Ruthenia and Zakarpattia
Kyiv compare Ruthenia and Kyiv
Kiev compare Ruthenia and Kiev
Subcarpathia compare Ruthenia and Subcarpathia
Sub-Carpathian Rus compare Ruthenia and Sub-Carpathian Rus
Russia compare Ruthenia and Russia

Ruthenia definitions

name

  • Rus, an East Slavic medieval state (880–12th c), corresponding to what is now Ukraine and Belarus, as well as western Russia. 

  • Western portions of East Slavic lands, including the principalities of Galicia-Volhynia and Kyiv, which united with Lithuania and Poland (14th c–1772), corresponding to what is now Ukraine and Belarus. 

  • Lands inhabited by Ukrainians (Ruthenians) of the former Austrian Empire kingdom of Galicia (1772–1918), corresponding to parts of Western Ukraine. 

  • The territory between Central and Eastern Europe inhabited by Rusyns, on the slopes of the Carpathian Mountains in parts of Ukraine, Poland and Slovakia.