Transcarpathia

Also known as Carpathian Rus', Zakarpattia, Transcarpathian Ukraine, Carpathian Ruthenia

Transcarpathia is a historical region on the border between Central and Eastern Europe, mostly located in western Ukraine's Zakarpattia Oblast.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Transcarpathia
Settlement.official_name: Zakarpattia Oblast
Settlement.native_name: Закарпаття Zakarpatsko
Settlement.settlement_type: Historical area
Settlement.image_map: Zakarpattia in Ukraine.svg
Settlement.map_caption: Transcarpathia (Zakarpattia) in modern-day Ukraine
Settlement.area_total_km2: 12800
Settlement.population_est: 1240000
Settlement.population_demonym: Transcarpathians
Settlement.timezone1: Eastern European Standard Time
Former subdivision.conventional_long_name: Subcarpathian Rus'
Former subdivision.common_name: Subcarpathian Rus'
Former subdivision.subdivision: Region
Former subdivision.nation: Czechoslovakia
Former subdivision.capital: Užhorod (1928–1938)Chust (1938–1939)
Former subdivision.life_span: 1928–1939
Former subdivision.year_start: 1928
Former subdivision.year_end: 1939

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Toponymy
Geography
History
Prehistoric cultures
Slavic settlement
Hungarian arrival
Part of Hungary and Transylvania
Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen
Transitional period (1918–1919)
Rus'ka Krajina
Fall of Soviet Hungary
Part of Czechoslovakia (1920–1938)
Subcarpathian Rus' (1928–1939)
Carpathian Ukraine (1938–1939)
Governorate of Subcarpathia (1939–1945)
Transition to Soviet takeover and control (1944–1945)
Transcarpathian Ukraine–Soviet Union (1945–1991)
Transition to independent Ukraine (1991–)
Demographics
Ethnic groups
Religion
Issue with self-identity: Ukrainians or Rusyns
Hungarians
Jews
Germans
Czechs
Romani
Romanians
Greeks
Transcarpathian Influence on Ruritania
See also
Notes
References
Sources
External links

Transcarpathia is a historical region on the border between Central and Eastern Europe, mostly located in western Ukraine's Zakarpattia Oblast.

From the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the end of the 9th century) to the end of World War I (Treaty of Trianon in 1920), most of this region was part of the Kingdom of Hungary. In the interwar period, it was part of the First and Second Czechoslovak Republics. Before World War II, the region was annexed by the Kingdom of Hungary once again when Germany dismembered the Second Czechoslovak Republic.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Transcarpathia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.