Ruthenia

American  

[roo-thee-nee-uh, -theen-yuh] / ruˈθi ni ə, -ˈθin jə /

noun

1. a former province in E Czechoslovakia.

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Ruthenia British  

/ ruːˈθiːnɪə /

noun

1. Also called: Carpatho-Ukraine.  a region of E Europe on the south side of the Carpathian Mountains: belonged to Hungary from the 14th century, to Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1939, and was ceded to the former Soviet Union in 1945; in 1991 it became part of the newly independent Ukraine

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Example Sentences

Imagine a geographical equivalent of “The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure” except that Sarawak, Ruthenia, Dahomey, the Republic of Cospaia and Neutral Moresnet actually existed.

From Washington Post • Jun. 22, 2021

The original resolution contained a list of other forgotten places in eastern Europe and Eurasia that today make it sound like a gazetteer of Middle Earth: Cossackia, Idel-Ural, Turkestan, White Ruthenia.

From Slate • Jul. 24, 2014

Even Czechoslovakia, which had long been Russia's friend, was threatened with the incorporation of its only liberated province, Ruthenia, into the Soviet Ukraine.

From Time Magazine Archive

Born Ludvik Hoch, Maxwell was the third of nine children of dirt-poor Hasidic Jews living in the eastern slice of Czechoslovakia known as Ruthenia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Following the first Vienna award on November 2, 1938, parts of former Slovakian territory with about 40,000 Jews were annexed by Hungary, together with parts of Sub Carpathian Ruthenia.

From The Grey Book by Snoek, Johan Martinus