Ruthenian

Ruthenian or Ruthene may refer to:

Places

• Ruthenia, a name applied to various East Slavic inhabited lands
• White Ruthenia, an East Slavic historical region
• Black Ruthenia, an East Slavic historical region
• Red Ruthenia, an East Slavic historical region
• Carpathian Ruthenia, a historical region inhabited mostly by Rusyns (Rusynia)
• Ruthenian Voivodeship, a historical province (1434–1772)

Peoples

• Ruthenians, an exonymic name applied to various East Slavic peoples (Gente Ruthenus, natione Polonus):
• Belarusians, sometimes referred to (in historical context) as White Ruthenians
• Rusyns, sometimes referred to as Carpatho-Ruthenians
• Pannonian Rusyns
• Ukrainians, sometimes referred to (in historical context) as South Ruthenians

Languages

• Old East Slavic, language of the medieval Rus' (sometimes referred to as Ruthenian)
• Ruthenian language, East Slavic language of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Habsburg Monarchy
• Belarusian language, sometimes referred to (in historical context) as White Ruthenian
• Rusyn language, sometimes referred to as Carpatho-Ruthenian
• Pannonian Rusyn, sometimes referred to as Ruthenian
• Ukrainian language, sometimes referred to (in historical context) as Ruthenian or South Ruthenian

Religion

• Ruthenian Rite, an exonymic designation for the East Slavic form of the Byzantine Rite
• Ruthenian Catholic Church (historical), that existed from the 15th to the 18th century
• Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic Church, one of the 23 particular (sui iuris) Eastern Catholic Churches

Other

• Ruthenian nobility, East Slavic nobility of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Habsburg Monarchy
• Minerals containing the element ruthenium

See also

• Ruthenia (disambiguation)
• Ruthenian Americans (disambiguation)
• Rusyn (disambiguation)