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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Ruthenia

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

Her first small chance came when Germany dismembered Czecho-Slovakia, tossing Hungary minuscule Ruthenia.

From Time Magazine Archive

His parents were immigrants from Ruthenia, a corner of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that is now largely part of the U.S.S.R.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bohemia, Poland, Galicia and Ruthenia were to make a Habsburg-ruled State from the Baltic to the Black Sea.

From What is Coming? by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells