Ruthenians
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Ruthenian and Ruthene are exonyms of Latin origin, formerly used in Eastern and Central Europe as common ethnonyms for East Slavs, particularly during the late medieval and early modern periods. The L
A boy with the pilgrimage flag with the Ruthenian lion during the Ruthenian pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1906
Ruthenians of Kholm (Chełm) in 1861.
Ruthenians of Podlachia in the second half of the 19th century.
Latin memorial plate from 1521, that mentions king Odoacer as Rex Rhutenorum (Petersfriedhof, Salzburg).
Ruthenian language
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Ruthenian was a written language used from the 14th to the 18th centuries within the East Slavic-speaking regions of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and later the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Literary
Ruthenians
…from Rus'. The Latinised terms such as Ruthenia or Ruthenorum were applied to Kievan Rus' and its rulers from the 11th century. The Ruthenian language (Ruthenian: ру́скаꙗ мо́ва, русинська мова) was an exonymic linguonym for a closely related group of East Slavic linguistic varieties, particularly those spoken…
Ruthenian Bible printed in 1517