Half of the 12,500 non-Jews in Munkacs are Magyars, while the remainder are either Slovaks or Ruthenians. A stronghold of Jewish or thodoxy, Munkacs is famous for its Chassidim, and for the ...

“Carpatho-Rusyns, also known as Rusyns, Rusnaks, Carpatho-Russians and Ruthenians, are a stateless people, whose homeland today stretches across five European countries – Ukraine, Slovakia, Romania, ...

Semeniuc presents himself as the leader of the Union of Subcarpathian Ruthenians of Romania, a group set up in 2000 to promote the ethnic group’s culture. His Facebook profile has a Ruthenian ...

With a population of 312,231 people, 63.5% of Poles, 24.1% of Jews, 7.8% of Ukrainians, 3.5% of Ruthenians, etc. lived in the city. What was the difference between Rusyns and Ukrainians? Those who ...

The Kings and Generals animated documentary series on Mongol history continues with an in-depth look at how Korea defended against the Mongol invasions. Previous episodes explored how various ...

It is less known that Ruthenians also settled in the upper part of the Horehronie region, leading to a distinctive ethnic island. Traditionally Ruthenian villages in this area included Pohorelá ...

A hyphen will probably be inserted into Czechoslovakia, making it “CzechoSlovakia” according to Prague dispatches, but the Ruthenians want the Republic’s name changed to “The State of ...

Instead Bishop Papp received irate notice that his potatoes are barred from Czechoslovakia by the Czechoslovak Government, which will not permit its starving Ruthenians to accept them even as a gift.

This is not so surprising, though, as Svidník lies in the north east of Slovakia, in an area densely populated by Ruthenians. Not much is known about the Ruthenians’ origins. What we do know is that ...

Warhol’s ethnicity is clear: Mikova, the tiny mountain village his parents came from, was home to Ruthenians, sometimes called Carpatho-Rusyns. But Carpatho-Rusyns never had a country of their ...