Carpatho-Ukraine

[ kahr-pey-thoh-yoo-kreyn ]

noun

1. a region in W Ukraine: ceded by Czechoslovakia in 1945.

Carpatho-Ukraine

/ kɑːˈpeɪθəʊjuːˈkreɪn /

noun

1. another name for Ruthenia

Example Sentences

Ukraine eventually absorbed "Rusyn," better known as Carpatho-Ukraine.

From Seattle Times

Czech soldiers in Carpatho-Ukraine, having learned that Bohemia was a German province, bee-lined for the Rumanian border, where they surrendered their arms and were interned.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week while Germany was grabbing Bohemia and Moravia by the scruffs of their necks and whistling Slovakia home, the little Kingdom of Hungary was being allowed to make a grab of its own in the Carpatho-Ukraine, the easternmost prov ince of now extinct Czecho-Slovakia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Swift Hungarian columns darted northward over snow-choked roads through the western mountain passes of Carpatho-Ukraine as soon as Hungary learned that the lid was off.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the Ukrainian Nationalist Guards of Carpatho-Ukraine, armed at the last minute by Premier Augustin Volosin, long a Ukrainian nationalist leader, put up a stiff resistance.

From Time Magazine Archive