Ruthenia
Sign in to savethumb|Rus' land/Ruthenia in yellow, Kievan Rus' under Oleg the Wise in gray, 862–912 thumb|The area of Red Ruthenia against the background of the administrative division of the [[Second Polish Republic in 1939, prior to the outbreak of World War II.]] Ruthenia is an exonym, originally used in Medieval Latin, as one of several terms for Rus'. The ethnonym Ruthenians was used to refer to the East Slavic and Eastern Orthodox people of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland, and later the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Austria-Hungary, mainly to Ukrainians and sometimes Belarus
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13 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Early Middle Ages
- Late Middle Ages
- Early modern period
- Modern period
- Ukraine
- Modern Ruthenia
- Gallery
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- External links
thumb|Rus' land/Ruthenia in yellow, Kievan Rus' under Oleg the Wise in gray, 862–912 thumb|The area of Red Ruthenia against the background of the administrative division of the [[Second Polish Republic in 1939, prior to the outbreak of World War II.]] Ruthenia is an exonym, originally used in Medieval Latin, as one of several terms for Rus'. The ethnonym Ruthenians was used to refer to the East Slavic and Eastern Orthodox people of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland, and later the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Austria-Hungary, mainly to Ukrainians and sometimes Belarusians, inhabiting the territories of modern Belarus, Ukraine, Eastern Poland and some of western Russia.
Historically, in a broader sense, the term was used to refer to all the territories under Kievan dominion (mostly East Slavs).