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12 Nov 2024
Why did the Rusyns adopt the name Ukrainians? A contemporary of this shift, a professor of Rusyn language and literature at the University of Lemberg, provides the answer:
#Rusyns #Ruthenians #Ruthenia #Ukraine #GaliciaLodomeria #OmelianOhonovsky
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May 15
OTD in 1848, amid the revolutionary wave of the Spring of Nations, the Supreme Ruthenian Council in L'viv published its Appeal to the Ruthenian People in the newspaper Zoria Halytska
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Apr 27
In his 1878 historical novel, the Russian writer and historian Daniil Mordovtsev, speaking through Peter I, warns Russians not to pick on Little Russians (an imperial term for Rusyns/Ukrainians) and to respect their language – or face serious consequences.
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Mar 23
The approximate ethnic composition of the Registered Cossacks in the Treaty of Zboriv (1649)
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Struminsky, B. (1985). The Origins of the Zaporozhian Cossacks: Apropos of a Recent Study.
Harvard Ukrainian Studies, Vol. IX, No. 1-2, pp. 193–197.
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13 Dec 2025
“The settlements and local names of the Rusyns at the present time.” Osnova (St. Petersburg, 1861), no. 1, pp. 263–265.
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13 Dec 2025
All Ukrainians in interwar Poland were officially referred to as "Rusini" (Ruthenians), regardless of their own self-identification. In his 1928 book, the Polish historian Adam Fischer explained this policy as follows:
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13 Dec 2025
A Polish ethnographic map from Powszechny Atlas Geograficzny (1939) by Eugeniusz Romer
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13 Dec 2025
The Ruthenian ethnographic groups according to Adam Fischer (1928):
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4 Sep 2025
Looking at the confrontation between the two hostile Ruthenian political currents of former Austria-Hungary (Narodovtsi and Moscophiles) through the eyes of a Pannonian Rusyn in 1925.
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25 Nov 2023
Rusyns and Moskals. Chernivtsi: Ruska Rada, 1911
#Rusyns #Ruthenians #Muscovites #RuthenianCouncil #Bukovyna #Cisleithania #HabsburgMonarchy
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11 Jun 2025
The Ruthenian Grammar, was published in 1913 in Leipzig by Dr. Stepan Smal-Stotsky, a professor at Franz-Josephs-Universität Czernowitz (Chernivtsi University).
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11 Jun 2025
Below is an English translation of the introductory part:
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23 Nov 2023
The Slavic populations in 1895:
Russians – 55 M,
Ruthenians – 23 M,
Poles – 15 M,
Czechs and Slovaks – 8 M,
Serbs and Croats – 6.5 M,
Bulgarians – 4 M,
Slovenians – 1.75 M.
“How many Slavs in the world according to the latest censuses?" Liberty, 25 Aug. 1895, p.4.
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6 May 2024
The size of the Slavic populations in 1862, according to Alexander Dukhnovych's records (1863).
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