Hutsuls
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The Hutsuls are an East Slavic ethnic group spanning parts of western Ukraine and northern Romania.
Hutsul family from Verkhovyna (modern Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine), 1925–1939
Hutsul family in Verkhovyna, 1933.
Herding of sheep on a polonyna in the Ukrainian Carpathians
Hutsul pysanka (Easter egg)
Lemkos
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Lemkos are an ethnic group inhabiting the Lemko Region of Carpathian Rus', an ethnographic region in the Carpathian Mountains and foothills spanning Ukraine, Slovakia, and Poland.
Hutsuls
…scholars and of some Hutsuls, they are either their own nation, or a part of the Rusyn nation, alongside the closely related ethnic groups of Boykos and Lemkos. The origin of the name Hutsul is uncertain. The most common derivations are from the Romanian word for "outlaw" (cf. Rom. hoț "thief", hoțul "the…
Members of the folk group Osławianie from Mokre in original Lemko highlander folk costumes
Ukrainian stamp featuring a Lemko woman, 2009.
Lemko house in Nowica in present-day Poland
Tablet inscription in Polish (left) and Ukrainian: "In memory of those expelled from the Lemko Region, on the 50th anniversary of Operation Vistula, 1947–1997."