Ruthenians - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › RutheniansRuthenians and Ruthenian language 1907 linguistic and ethnographic map that indicates Ukrainians as " Little Russians or Ruthenians" 1911 map depicting the Austro-Hungarian Empire, with Ruthenians in light green 1927 Polish map that indicates Ukrainians as "Ruthenians" ("Rusini"), and Belarusians as "White Ruthenians" ("Bialo Rusini").
Ruthenia - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › RutheniaThe word Ruthenia originated as a Latin designation of the region whose people originally called themselves the Rus'. During the Middle Ages, writers in English and other Western European languages applied the term to lands inhabited by Eastern Slavs.
Ruthenia - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RutheniaThe use of the term Rus/Russia in the lands of ancient Rus' survived longer as a name used by Ukrainians for Ukraine. When the Austrian monarchy made the vassal state of Galicia–Lodomeria into a province in 1772, Habsburg officials realized that the local East Slavic people were distinct from both Poles and Russians and still called themselves Rus. This was true until the empire fell in …