Carpathian Ruthenia | ||||||
Region of Czechoslovakia | ||||||
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Subcarpathian Rus within Czechoslovakia (1928) | ||||||
Capital |
Užhorod (1919–1938) Chust (1938–1939) |
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Historical era | Interwar period | |||||
• | Paris Peace Conference | 1919 | ||||
• | First Vienna Award | 2 November 1938 | ||||
• | Independence as Carpatho-Ukraine | 14 March 1939 | ||||
• | Hungarian annexation | 15 March 1939 | ||||
• | Integration into the Soviet Union | 29 June 1945 | ||||
Area | ||||||
• | 1921 | 12,097 km2(4,671 sq mi) | ||||
Population | ||||||
• | 1921 | 592,044 | ||||
Density | 48.9 /km2 (126.8 /sq mi) | |||||
Today part of | Ukraine |
Carpathian Ruthenia, Carpatho-Ukraine, or Zakarpattia (Rusyn and Ukrainian: Карпатська Русь, Karpats’ka Rus’; or Закарпаття, Zakarpattya; Slovak and Czech: Podkarpatská Rus; Hungarian: Kárpátalja; Romanian: Transcarpatia; Polish: Zakarpacie; German: Karpatenukraine) is a historic region in Eastern Europe, mostly located in western Ukraine's Zakarpattia Oblast, with smaller parts in easternmost Slovakia (largely in Prešov Region and Košice Region) and Poland's Lemkovyna. Before the World War I most of this region was part of the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary. In the interwar period, it was part of the First and Second Czechoslovak Republic. During the World War II, the region was annexed by the Kingdom of Hungary once again. After the war, it became part of the Soviet Ukraine.
It is an ethnically diverse region, inhabited by Ukrainian, Rusyn, Lemko, Hungarian, Slovak, Romanian, Bulgarian and Russian populations. It also has small Hutsul, Jewish, Romani, Szekler and Csango minorities.