Ruthenian or Ruthene may refer to:
Places
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Ruthenia, a name applied to various East Slavic inhabited lands
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White Ruthenia
White Ruthenia ( cu, Бѣла Роусь, Bela Rous'; be, Белая Русь, Biełaja Ruś; pl, Ruś Biała; russian: Белая Русь, Belaya Rus'; ukr, Біла Русь, Bila Rus') alternatively known as Russia Alba, White Rus' or W ...
, an East Slavic historical region
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Black Ruthenia, an East Slavic historical region
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Red Ruthenia
Red Ruthenia or Red Rus' ( la, Ruthenia Rubra; '; uk, Червона Русь, Chervona Rus'; pl, Ruś Czerwona, Ruś Halicka; russian: Червонная Русь, Chervonnaya Rus'; ro, Rutenia Roșie), is a term used since the Middle Ages fo ...
, an East Slavic historical region
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Carpathian Ruthenia
Carpathian Ruthenia ( rue, Карпатьска Русь, Karpat'ska Rus'; uk, Закарпаття, Zakarpattia; sk, Podkarpatská Rus; hu, Kárpátalja; ro, Transcarpatia; pl, Zakarpacie); cz, Podkarpatská Rus; german: Karpatenukrai ...
, a historical region inhabited mostly by Rusyns (Rusynia)
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Ruthenian Voivodeship, a historical province (1434–1772)
Peoples
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Ruthenians
Ruthenian and Ruthene are exonyms of Latin language, Latin origin, formerly used in Eastern and Central Europe as common ethnonyms for East Slavs, particularly during the late medieval and early modern periods. The Latin term Rutheni was used in ...
, an exonymic name applied to various East Slavic peoples:
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Ukrainians
Ukrainians ( uk, Українці, Ukraintsi, ) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine. They are the seventh-largest nation in Europe. The native language of the Ukrainians is Ukrainian. The majority of Ukrainians are Eastern Ort ...
, sometimes referred to (in historical context) as ''South Ruthenians''
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Belarusians, sometimes referred to (in historical context) as ''White Ruthenians''
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Rusyns
Rusyns (), also known as Carpatho-Rusyns (), or Rusnaks (), are an East Slavic ethnic group from the Eastern Carpathians in Central Europe. They speak Rusyn, an East Slavic language variety, treated variously as either a distinct langu ...
, sometimes referred to as ''Carpatho-Ruthenians''
Languages
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Old East Slavic, language of the medieval Rus' (sometimes referred to as ''Ruthenian'')
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Ruthenian language, East Slavic language of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Habsburg Monarchy
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Ukrainian language
Ukrainian ( uk, украї́нська мо́ва, translit=ukrainska mova, label=native name, ) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family. It is the native language of about 40 million people and the official state lan ...
, sometimes referred to (in historical context) as ''South Ruthenian''
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Belarusian language
Belarusian ( be, беларуская мова, biełaruskaja mova, link=no, ) is an East Slavic language. It is the native language of many Belarusians and one of the two official state languages in Belarus. Additionally, it is spoken in some p ...
, sometimes referred to (in historical context) as ''White Ruthenian''
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Rusyn language, sometimes referred to as ''Carpatho-Ruthenian''
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Russian language, sometimes also included in the widest scope of ''Ruthenian'' designations
Religion
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Ruthenian Rite
The Byzantine Rite, also known as the Greek Rite or the Rite of Constantinople, identifies the wide range of cultural, liturgical, and canonical practices that developed in the Eastern Christian Church of Constantinople.
The canonical hours are ...
, an exonymic designation for the East Slavic form of the
Byzantine Rite
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Ruthenian Catholic Church (historical)
The Ruthenian Uniate Church (Belarusian: Руская Уніяцкая Царква; Ukrainian: Руська Унійна Церква; la, Ecclesia Ruthena unita; pl, Ruski Kościół Unicki) was a particular church of the Catholic Church ...
, that existed from the 15th to the 18th century
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Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic Church
The Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church ( rue, Русиньска ґрекокатолицька церьков; la, Ecclesia Graeco-Catholica Ruthenica), also known in the United States simply as the Byzantine Catholic Church, is an Eastern Catho ...
, one of the 23 particular (sui iuris) Eastern Catholic Churches
Other
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Ruthenian nobility
Ruthenian nobility ( uk, Руська шляхта, be, Руская шляхта, pl, szlachta ruska) refers to the nobility of Kyivan Rus and Galicia–Volhynia, which found itself in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwe ...
, East Slavic nobility of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Habsburg Monarchy
* Minerals containing the element
ruthenium
Ruthenium is a chemical element with the symbol Ru and atomic number 44. It is a rare transition metal belonging to the platinum group of the periodic table. Like the other metals of the platinum group, ruthenium is inert to most other chemical ...
See also
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Ruthenia (disambiguation)
Ruthenia may refer to:
* Ruthenia, a name applied to various East Slavic lands
** Red Ruthenia, an East Slavic historical region
** Black Ruthenia, an East Slavic historical region
** White Ruthenia, an East Slavic historical region
* Carpathia ...
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Ruthenian Americans (disambiguation) Ruthenian Americans may refer to:
* Rusyn Americans, also referred to as ''Carpatho-Ruthenian Americans''
* Ukrainian Americans, historically also designated as ''Ruthenian Americans''
* White-Ruthenian Americans, an old term for Belarusian America ...
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Rusyn (disambiguation)
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