Posted by rjklancko
on 9/6/2009, 8:37 am, in reply to "The real reason why Carpatho-Russians are 'under Constantinople'"
nice try at subtle humor - the Carpatho-Russians get their name from the Carpathian Mountains -- those on the Northwest Slope ( now in poland)are the Galician Russians or Galician Rus which also contain the Lemko minority - these people at the easrly part of the 2oth century lobbied for their own country and were eith moscophili - those alighed with moscow and uniates who bought into the pope's decree of 1917 tghat they were ukrainian ( technically ture because the work ukraine comes from the word okrainia which means frontierland - but do not call a Galician-Rus and Ukrainian if you do not have your running shoes on)
those on the southern western slope ( czech and slovak lands) were of different culture and slightly different language - these were you classic Carpatho-Russians ( the pope in 1917 declared them to be ruthenians ( from the latin word for russia - ruthenia) during world ward 2 this area was called carpatho-ukraine.
today many of these peoples consider themselves to be rusyns.
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