Ruthenia is a geographic and culturo-ethnic name applied to the parts of Eastern Europe populated by Eastern Slavic peoples, as well as to the past Russian states that existed in these territories.... , a name applied to various parts of Eastern Europe/Ukrainians
The term Ruthenians is a culturally loaded term and has different meanings according to the context in which it is used. Initially it was the ethnonym used for the Ukrainians people.... , a historic ethnic group/Ukrainians
The Ruthenian Catholic Church is a sui iuris Eastern Catholic Church , which uses the Divine Liturgy of the Constantinopolitan Byzantine Rite. Its roots are among the Rusyns who lived in the region called Carpathian Ruthenia, in and around the Carpathian Mountains.... , the sui iuris particular church united to the Bishop of Rome and the Roman Catholic Church (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church)
The name Ruthenian language has sometimes been applied to:* Old East Slavic language, the language of Kievan Rus', ancestral to all modern East Slavic languages... , a name applied to several Slavic languages/Ukrainian
