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

After Munich, Ruthenia, easternmost district of Czecho-Slovakia, now called the Carpatho-Ukraine, became an "autonomous" region with only loose connections with Prague but with very definite though unofficial links with Berlin.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Andrej Brody, the first Premier of Ruthenia since it was granted autonomy within the Czechoslovak Republic, was jailed last week for treason.

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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)