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Carpathian Ruthenia, also known as Transcarpathian Ruthenia, Subcarpathian Rus, or Subcarpathia (Rusyn and Ukrainian: Карпатська Русь, romanised: Karpats’ka Rus’) is a small region of Central Europe, now mostly in western Ukraine's Zakarpattia Oblast, easternmost Slovakia (largely in Prešov kraj and Košice kraj), Poland's Lemkovyna and Romanian Maramureş.
Carpathian Ruthenia rests on the southern slopes of the Eastern Carpathian Mountains, bordered to the east by the Tisza River, and to the west by the Hornád and Poprad Rivers, and makes up part of the Pannonian Plain.
It is inhabited mainly by Ruthenian-speakers (Carpatho-Rusyns, Lemkos, Boykos and Hutsuls), but there is also significant Hungarian, Romanian and, since 1946, Ukrainian and Russian minorities.
