A bit of history: Ethnographic #Map of #Poland in 1926 (from I. Weinfeld, La Pologne contemporaine: Atlas statistique, Warsaw, 1926) #maps #nationalities #Polish #Jews #Ukrainians #Ruthenians #Germans #Byelorussians
@Germany
#Ukraine #Russia #Lithuania #Belarus #Hungary #Romania

Why did the Rusyns adopt the name Ukrainians? A contemporary of this shift, Omelian Ohonovsky, a professor of Rusyn language and literature at the University of Lemberg, provides the answer:
#Rusyns #Ruthenians #Ruthenia #Ukraine #GaliciaLodomeria #OmelianOhonovsky