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Definition of: Ruthenia
(r·thē′nē·ə)
A region of western Ukrainian S.S.R.; formerly a province of Czechoslovakia; annexed by Hungary, 1939; ceded to U.S.S.R., 1945; since 1945, the Transcarpathian Oblast of the Ukrainian S.S.R.; 5,000 square miles; capital, Uzhgorod: also Carpatho-Ukraine.
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