Ruthenian

Ruthenian or Ruthene may refer to:

Places

 * Ruthenia, a name applied to various East Slavic inhabited lands
 * White Ruthenia, an East Slavic historical region
 * Black Ruthenia, an East Slavic historical region
 * Red Ruthenia, an East Slavic historical region
 * Carpathian Ruthenia, a historical region inhabited mostly by Rusyns (Rusynia)
 * Ruthenian Voivodeship, a historical province (1434–1772)

Peoples

 * Ruthenians, an exonymic name applied to various East Slavic peoples:
 * Belarusians, sometimes referred to (in historical context) as White Ruthenians
 * Rusyns, sometimes referred to as Carpatho-Ruthenians
 * Pannonian Rusyns
 * Ukrainians, sometimes referred to (in historical context) as South Ruthenians

Languages

 * Old East Slavic, language of the medieval Rus' (sometimes referred to as Ruthenian)
 * Ruthenian language, East Slavic language of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Habsburg Monarchy
 * Belarusian language, sometimes referred to (in historical context) as White Ruthenian
 * Rusyn language, sometimes referred to as Carpatho-Ruthenian
 * Pannonian Rusyn, sometimes referred to as Ruthenian
 * Ukrainian language, sometimes referred to (in historical context) as South Ruthenian

Religion

 * Ruthenian Rite, an exonymic designation for the East Slavic form of the Byzantine Rite
 * Ruthenian Catholic Church (historical), that existed from the 15th to the 18th century
 * Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic Church, one of the 23 particular (sui iuris) Eastern Catholic Churches

Other

 * Ruthenian nobility, East Slavic nobility of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Habsburg Monarchy
 * Minerals containing the element ruthenium