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.
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."
Rusyns
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Rusyns, also known as Carpatho-Rusyns, Carpatho-Russians, Ruthenians, or Rusnaks, are an East Slavic ethnic group native to the Eastern Carpathians of Central and Eastern Europe. They speak Rusyn, an
Lemkos
…ethnographic region in the Carpathian Mountains and foothills spanning Ukraine, Slovakia, and Poland. Lemkos are often considered to be a sub-group of Rusyns. Members of these groups have historically also been given other designations, such as Verkhovyntsi ("highlanders"). Among people of the Carpathian…
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Sign reads "House of Subcarpathian Rusyns" (Dom Podkarpatskikh Rusinov) in Mukachevo
Lemkos in southeastern Poland
Orthodox protest Greek Catholic Archbishop Kocisko's 1990 Uzhhorod Cathedral visit.