Tags: Ethnic Group.
The English language exonyms Ruthenian Ruthene or Rusyn (Russian: Русины Rusyny; Ukrainian: Русини/Руські Rusyny/Rus’ki; Belarusian: Русіны Rusyn: Русины 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.
