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Ruthenia

American

[roo-thee-nee-uh, -theen-yuh] / ruˈθi ni ə, -ˈθin yə /

noun

a former province in E Czechoslovakia.

Ruthenia British

/ ruːˈθiːnɪə /

noun

Also called: Carpatho-Ukraine. a region of E Europe on the south side of the Carpathian Mountains: belonged to Hungary from the 14th century, to Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1939, and was ceded to the former Soviet Union in 1945; in 1991 it became part of the newly independent Ukraine

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Imagine a geographical equivalent of “The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure” except that Sarawak, Ruthenia, Dahomey, the Republic of Cospaia and Neutral Moresnet actually existed.

From Washington Post • Jun. 22, 2021

The original resolution contained a list of other forgotten places in eastern Europe and Eurasia that today make it sound like a gazetteer of Middle Earth: Cossackia, Idel-Ural, Turkestan, White Ruthenia.

From Slate • Jul. 24, 2014

Significant it is that many White Russians of known anti-Communist leanings have found good "jobs" in "poor" Ruthenia.

From Time Magazine Archive

King Carol with a characteristic flourish announced he had been "deeply touched" by a petition from 50,000 Rumanians of Ruthenian blood who begged His Majesty not to let Hungary have Ruthenia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nearly all of this was destined for Poland, Lithuania and White Ruthenia.

From Memorandum to the Government of the United States on the Recognition of the Ukrainian People's Republic by Batchinsky, Julian

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