Ruthenian

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Ruthenian or Ruthene may refer to:

Places

  • Ruthenia, a name applied to various East Slavic inhabited lands
    • White Ruthenia, an East Slavic historical region
    • Black Ruthenia, an East Slavic historical region
    • Red Ruthenia, an East Slavic historical region
    • Carpathian Ruthenia, a historical region inhabited mostly by Rusyns (Rusynia)
    • Ruthenian Voivodeship, a historical province (1434–1772)

Peoples

  • Ruthenians, an exonymic name applied to various East Slavic peoples:
    • Belarusians, sometimes referred to (in historical context) as White Ruthenians
    • Rusyns, sometimes referred to as Carpatho-Ruthenians
      • Pannonian Rusyns
    • Ukrainians, sometimes referred to (in historical context) as South Ruthenians

Languages

  • Old East Slavic, language of the medieval Rus' (sometimes referred to as Ruthenian)
  • Ruthenian language, East Slavic language of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Habsburg Monarchy
    • Belarusian language, sometimes referred to (in historical context) as White Ruthenian
    • Rusyn language, sometimes referred to as Carpatho-Ruthenian
      • Pannonian Rusyn, sometimes referred to as Ruthenian
    • Ukrainian language, sometimes referred to (in historical context) as South Ruthenian

Religion

  • Ruthenian Rite, an exonymic designation for the East Slavic form of the Byzantine Rite
  • Ruthenian Catholic Church (historical), that existed from the 15th to the 18th century
  • Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic Church, one of the 23 particular (sui iuris) Eastern Catholic Churches

Other

  • Ruthenian nobility, East Slavic nobility of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Habsburg Monarchy
  • Minerals containing the element ruthenium

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Ruthenian
  • Ruthenia (disambiguation)
  • Ruthenian Americans (disambiguation)
  • Rusyn (disambiguation)
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