11 Facts About Carpathian Ruthenia

Carpathian Ruthenia is a historical region on the border between Central and Eastern Europe, mostly located in western Ukraine's Zakarpattia Oblast, with smaller parts in eastern Slovakia and the Lemko Region in Poland.

Name Carpathian Ruthenia is sometimes used for the contiguous cross-border area of Ukraine, Slovakia and Poland inhabited by Ruthenians.

Carpathian Ruthenia rests on the southern slopes of the eastern Carpathian Mountains, bordered to the east and south by the Tisza River, and to the west by the Hornad and Poprad Rivers.

Whereas some White Croats remained behind in Carpathian Ruthenia, others moved southward into the Balkans in the 7th century.

Carpathian Ruthenia further asserts that Clemenceau had personally instructed the French general on the spot to get the area incorporated into Czechoslovakia "at all costs", so as to create a buffer separating Soviet Ukraine from Hungary, as part of the French anti-Communist "Cordon sanitaire" policy, and that it was the French rather than the Czechoslovaks who made the effective decisions.

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Carpathian Ruthenia included former Hungarian territories of Ung County, Bereg County, Ugocsa County and Maramaros County.

Carpathian Ruthenia's tenure is a historical anomaly as the only American citizen ever acting as governor of a province that later became a part of the USSR.

Places inhabited by Rusyns span adjacent regions of the Carpathian Ruthenia Mountains, including regions of present-day Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania.

Czechs in Carpathian Ruthenia are ethnoculturally distinct from other West Slavic groups like the Slovaks, as they originated from Czech-speaking groups from Bohemia and Moravia instead of Slovakia.

However, there are Romanians in Carpathian Ruthenia living outside Maramures, mostly in the village of Poroshkovo.

Urban European readers in the 19th century, Carpathian Ruthenia was one origin of the 19th century's imaginary "Ruritania" the most rural, most rustic and deeply provincial tiny province lost in forested mountains that could be imagined.