Carpathian Ruthenia
Coat-of-arms of Carpathian Ukraine
Carpatho-Rusyn sub-groups - Transcarpathi-
an Rusyns in stylised traditional folk-cos-
tumes from Central Ukraine. Photo: Village
Mokre near Sanok (Poland). 2007
Carpathian Ruthenia, aka Transcarpathi-
an Ruthenia, Rusinko, Subcarpathian
Rus, Subcarpathia (Rusyn and Ukrainian:
Карпатська Русь,
romanised: Karpats’ka
Rus’; Russian: Карпатская Русь, romanised:
Karpatskaya Rus’;
Slovak
and Czech:
Podkarpatská Rus; Hungarian: Kárpátalja;
Romanian: Transcarpatia; Polish: Zakarpacie;
Carpatho-Rusyn sub-groups - Prešov area
Lemkos (left side) and Przemyśl area Rusyns
(Ukrainians) in stylised traditional folk-cos-
tumes. Photo: Village Mokre near Sanok.
2007
Yiddish: קאַרפַּאטן רוּס) is a small region in
Central Europe, now mostly
in western
Ukraine’s Zakarpattia Oblast
(Ukrainian:
Zakarpats’ka oblast’), easternmost Slovakia
(largely in Prešov kraj and Košice kraj), Po-
land’s Lemkovyna and Romanian Maramureş.
It is inhabited by Ukrainian, Rusyn, Lemko,
Hungarian,
Romanian,
and
Russian
populations.
Nomenclature
The nomenclature of the region depends on
geographic perspective and point of view.
Thus from a Hungarian, Slovak, Czech per-
spective the region is described as Sub-
Carpathia, (i.e. below the Carpathians) while
from a Ukrainian and Russian perspective it
is referred to as Trans-Carpathia (on the oth-
er side of the Carpathian mountains). The use
of Carpathian Ruthenia is an attempt to
provide a neutral term.
During the region’s period of Hungarian
rule lasting approximately a thousand years,
it was officially referred to by Hungarians as
Subcarpathia
(Hungarian: Kárpátalja)
or
North-Eastern Upper Hungary.
After the Treaty of Trianon of 1920 and
the break up of Austria-Hungary the region
became part of Czechoslovakia until 1938-9,
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and it was referred to as Subcarpathian Rus
(Czech and Slovak: Podkarpatská Rus) or
Subcarpathian Ukraine (Czech and Slovak:
Podkarpatská Ukrajina), and from 1927 as
the Sub