The English language exonyms Ruthenian, Ruthene or Rusyn (Russian: ??????, Rusyny; Ukrainian: ??????/??????, Rusyny/Rus'ki; Belarusian: ??????, Rusyn: ??????, Rusyny) have been applied to various East Slavic peoples.Ruthenian is a historical term for ethnic minority in Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary and the Czech lands.In its narrower senses, Ruthenian is an exonym for ethnic Rusyns and/or inhabitants of a cross-border region around the northern Carpathian Mountains, including western Ukraine (especially Zakarpattia Oblast; part of historic Carpathian Ruthenia), eastern Slovakia and southern Poland. This area coincides, to a large degree, with a region sometimes known in English as Galicia (Ukrainian: ????????, Halychyna; Polish: Galicja and; Slovak: Halic). The name Ruthenian is also used by the Pannonian Rusyn minority in Serbia and Croatia, as well as Rusyn ?migr?s outside Europe (especially members of the Ruthenian Catholic Church). In contrast, the Rusyns of Romania are more likely to identify as "Ukrainian".During the early modern era, the term was used primarily in reference to members of East Slavic minorities in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, namely Ukrainians and Rusyns.With the emergence of Ukrainian nationalism, during the mid-19th Century, there was a decline in use of the term Ruthenian as an endonym by Ukrainians, and it fell out of use in eastern and central Ukraine. Most people in the western region of Ukraine later followed suit later in the 19th century.In the Interbellum period of the 20th century, the term Ruthenian was also applied to people from the Kresy Wschodnie in the Second Polish Republic.
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Belarusian language
Rusyn language
Ruthenian language
Slovak language
Ukrainian language
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Belarusians
Rusyns
Slavs
Ukrainians
Religión
Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Church
Protestantism
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