Carpathian Ruthenia,
aka Transcarpathian Ruthenia, Subcarpathian Rus, Subcarpathia (
Rusyn and
Ukrainian: Карпатська Русь, romanised: Karpats’ka Rus’;
Slovak and
Czech: Podkarpatská Rus;
Hungarian: Kárpátalja;
Romanian: Transcarpatia; ) is a small region of
Central Europe, now mostly in western Ukraine's
Zakarpattia Oblast (Ukrainian: Zakarpats’ka oblast’), easternmost
Slovakia (largely in
Prešov kraj and
Košice kraj), Poland's
Lemkovyna and Romanian
Maramureş. It is inhabited by Ruthenian-speakers (
Carpatho-Rusyns,
Lemkos,
Boykos and
Hutsuls, and
Hungarian,
Romanian and, since 1946,
Ukrainian and
Russian populations).
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