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'''Transcarpathia'''{{efn|Also '''Transcarpathian Ruthenia''', '''Transcarpathian Ukraine''', '''Carpathian Ruthenia''', '''Rusinsko''', '''Subcarpathian Rus<nowiki>'</nowiki>''', '''Subcarpathia'''|group=A}}{{efn|group=A|{{langx|uk|Закарпаття|translit=Zakarpattia}}, {{IPA|uk|zɐkɐrˈpɑtʲːɐ|pron|LL-Q8798 (ukr)-Tohaomg-Закарпаття.wav}}; {{langx|rue|Пудкарпатьска Русь|Pudkarpat'ska Rus'}}; {{langx|sk|Podkarpatská Rus}}; {{langx|hu|Kárpátalja}}; {{langx|ro|Transcarpatia}}; {{langx|pl|Zakarpacie}}; {{langx|ru|Закарпатье|translit=Zakarpat'ye}}; {{langx|cs|Podkarpatská Rus}}; {{langx|de|Karpatenukraine}}}} is a historical region on the border between [[Central and Eastern Europe]], mostly located in western Ukraine's [[Zakarpattia Oblast]].

From the Hungarian [[Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin|conquest]] of the [[Carpathian Basin]] (at the end of the 9th century) to the end of World War I ([[Treaty of Trianon]] in 1920), most of this region was part of the [[Kingdom of Hungary]]. In the [[interwar period]], it was part of the [[First Czechoslovak Republic|First]] and [[Second Czechoslovak Republic]]s. Before World War II, the region was annexed by the [[Kingdom of Hungary (1920–46)|Kingdom of Hungary]] once again when Germany dismembered the Second Czechoslovak Republic. 

After the war, it was annexed by the [[Soviet Union]] and became part of the [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic]].

It is an ethnically diverse region, inhabited mostly by people who regard themselves as ethnic [[Ukrainians]], [[Rusyns]], [[Hungarian people|Hungarians]], [[Romanians]], [[Slovak people|Slovaks]], and [[Polish people|Poles]]. It also has small communities of [[Jews|Jewish]] and [[Romani people|Romani]] minorities. Prior to World War II, many more Jews lived in the region, constituting over 13% of its total population in 1930. The most commonly spoken languages are [[Rusyn Language|Rusyn]], [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]], [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]], [[Romanian language|Romanian]], [[Slovakian language|Slovak]], and [[Polish language|Polish]].

==Toponymy==
[[File:Historical Counties in Zakarpattia.GIF|thumb|Former Hungarian counties in Zakarpattia Oblast:
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| valign="top"|{{legend|#4682B4|[[Ung county|Ung]]}}
{{legend|#C0C0C0|[[Bereg (county)|Bereg]]}}
| valign="top"|{{legend|#CD5C5C|[[Ugocsa]]}}
{{legend|#FBEC5D|[[Northern Maramureș]]}}
|}]]
The name Carpathian Ruthenia is sometimes used for the contiguous cross-border area of Ukraine, Slovakia and Poland inhabited by [[Ruthenians]]. The local Ruthenian population self-identifies in different ways: some consider themselves to be a separate and unique Slavic group of [[Rusyns]] and some consider themselves to be both Rusyns and Ukrainians. To describe their home region, most of them use the term ''Zakarpattia'' ({{langx|en|Trans-Carpathia|lit=beyond the [[Carpathian mountains]]}}).{{citation needed|date=July 2014}} This is contrasted implicitly with ''[[Prykarpattia]]'' ({{langx|en|Ciscarpathia|lit=near the [[Carpathians]]}}), an unofficial geographical region in Ukraine, to the immediate north-east of the central area of the Carpathian Range, and potentially including its foothills, the [[Outer Subcarpathia|Subcarpathia]]n basin and part of the surrounding plains.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

From a Hungarian (and to an extent Slovak and Czech) perspective, the region is usually described as [[Inner Subcarpathia|Subcarpathia]] (literally "below the Carpathians"), although technically this name refers only to a long, narrow basin that flanks the northern side of the mountains.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

During the period in which the region was administered by the [[History of Hungary|Hungarian states]], it was officially referred to in Hungarian as Kárpátalja (literally: "the base of the Carpathians") or the north-eastern regions of medieval ''Upper Hungary'', which in the 16th century was contested between the Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman Empire.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

The [[Romanian language|Romanian]] name of the region is [[Maramureș]], which is geographically located in the eastern and south-eastern portions of the region.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}

During the period of [[Czechoslovakia|Czechoslovak]] administration in the first half of the 20th century, the region was referred to for a while as ''Rusinsko'' (Ruthenia) or ''Karpatske Rusinsko'', and later as Subcarpathian Rus ([[Czech language|Czech]] and [[Slovak language|Slovak]]: ''Podkarpatská Rus'') or Subcarpathian Ukraine (Czech and Slovak: ''Podkarpatská Ukrajina''), and from 1928 as Subcarpathian Ruthenian Land.<ref>{{cite web | title=Subcarpathian Rus'/Podkarpats'ka Rus' | url=http://www.rusyn.org/geosubcarpathian.html | access-date=2007-06-10 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724205028/http://www.rusyn.org/geosubcarpathian.html | archive-date=2008-07-24 | url-status=dead }}</ref> (Czech: ''Země podkarpatoruská'', Slovak: ''Krajina podkarpatoruská'').

Alternative, unofficial names used in Czechoslovakia before World War II included Subcarpathia (Czech and Slovak: ''Podkarpatsko''), Transcarpathia (Czech and Slovak: ''Zakarpatsko''), Transcarpathian Ukraine (Czech and Slovak: ''Zakarpatská Ukrajina''), Carpathian Rus/Ruthenia (Czech and Slovak: ''Karpatská Rus'') and, occasionally, Hungarian Rus/Ruthenia ({{langx|cs|Uherská Rus}}; {{langx|sk|Uhorská Rus}}).{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

The region declared its independence as [[Carpatho-Ukraine]] on March 15, 1939, but was occupied and annexed by [[Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946)|Hungary]] on the same day, and remained under Hungarian control until the end of World War II. During this period the region continued to possess a special administration and the term ''Kárpátalja'' was locally used.<ref>{{harvnb|Shandor|1997|pages=257–258}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Markus |first=Vasyl |year=1954 |title=Carpatho-Ukraine under Hungarian Occupation |journal=The Ukrainian Quarterly |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=252ff }}</ref>

In 1944–1946, the region was occupied by the Soviet Army and was a separate political formation known as Transcarpathian Ukraine or Subcarpathian Ruthenia. During this period the region possessed some form of quasi-autonomy with its own legislature, while remaining under the governance of the Communist Party of Transcarpathian Ukraine. After the signing of a treaty between [[Czechoslovakia]] and the [[Soviet Union]] as well as the decision of the regional council, Transcarpathia joined the [[Ukrainian SSR]] as the [[Zakarpattia Oblast]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Transcarpathian Ukraine |encyclopedia=The Great Soviet Encyclopedia |edition=third (1970–1979) |via=The Free Dictionary |url=https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Carpathian+Ruthenia }}</ref>

The region has subsequently been referred to as ''Zakarpattia'' ({{langx|uk|Закарпаття}}) or ''Transcarpathia'', and on occasions as ''Carpathian Rus’'' ({{langx|uk|Карпатська Русь|translit=Karpatska Rus}}), ''Transcarpathian Rus’'' ({{langx|uk|Закарпатська Русь|translit=Zakarpatska Rus}}), or ''Subcarpathian Rus’'' ({{langx|uk|Підкарпатська Русь|translit=Pidkarpatska Rus}}).{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

==Geography==
{{Further|Divisions of the Carpathians|Outer Subcarpathia}}

[[File:Topographical map of the Carpathian Ruthenia region.svg|thumb|Lands bordering the Carpathian Ruthenia region]]
Carpathian Ruthenia rests on the southern slopes of the eastern [[Carpathian Mountains]], bordered to the east and south by the [[Tisza]] River, and to the west by the [[Hornád]] and [[Poprad River]]s. The region borders Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania, and makes up part of the [[Pannonian Plain]].{{cn|date=November 2023}}

The region is predominantly rural and infrastructurally underdeveloped. The landscape is mostly mountainous; it is geographically separated from Ukraine, Slovakia, and Romania by mountains, and from Hungary by the Tisza river. The two major cities are [[Uzhhorod]] and [[Mukachevo]], both with populations around 100,000. The population of the other five cities (including [[Khust]] and [[Berehove]]) varies between 10,000 and 30,000. Other urban and rural populated places have a population of less than 10,000.{{cn|date=November 2023}}

==History==
{{more citations needed section|date=June 2011}}
===Prehistoric cultures===
During the Late [[Bronze Age Europe|Bronze Age]] in the 2nd millennium BC, the region was characterized by Stanove culture;<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|entry=Stanove culture|encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia of Ukraine|Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine]]|entry-url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CS%5CT%5CStanoveculture.htm|year=2001|orig-year=1993|publisher=[[University of Toronto Press]]|volume=5|isbn=978-0802030108}}</ref> however, it only gained more advanced metalworking skills with the arrival of [[Thracians]] from the South with Kushtanovytsia culture in the 6th-3rd century BC. In the 5th-3rd century BC, [[Celts]] arrived from the West, bringing iron-melting skills and [[La Tène culture]]. A Thracian-Celtic symbiosis existed for a time in the region, after which appeared the [[Bastarnae]].<ref name="EIU">{{cite encyclopedia|entry=ЗАКАРПАТСЬКА УКРАЇНА, ЗАКАРПАТТЯ|entry-url=http://www.history.org.ua/?termin=Zakarpatska_Ukraina|author=Віднянський С.В.|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Ukrainian History|year=2005|publisher=[[Naukova Dumka]], [[NASU Institute of History of Ukraine]]|volume=3|language=uk|isbn=9660006101|quote=Тут знайдено чимало предметів часів мідного віку, бронзового віку та залізного віку. Помірно континентальний клімат і природні багатства Закарпаття роблять цю місцевість привабливою для проживання. Тут свого часу осіли фракійські племена, які залишили після себе пам'ятки куштановицької культури, та кельти, репрезентовані пам'ятками латенської к-ри (див. Латенські пам'ятки). Вчені вважають, що в Закарпатті в 3–1 ст. до н. е. склалася змішана кельто-фракійська к-ра, на основі якої утворився досить стійкий симбіоз племен, що проіснував бл. 200 років і сприяв поширенню цивілізаційних досягнень із зх. на укр. тер. Пізніше на Закарпатті з'явилися бастарни (їхня етнічна приналежність не з'ясована). В 2 ст. н. е. ч. Закарпаття була приєднана до рим. провінції Дакія. В часи Великого переселення народів через Закарпаття проходили гуни й авари. На Закарпатті побували герм. племена, в т. ч. гепіди. З перших століть н. е. почалося розселення слов'ян. За археол. даними, з 2 ст. н. е. тут міцно осіло хліборобське слов'ян. нас. – білі хорвати (див. Хорвати), матеріальна й духовна к-ра яких була тісно пов'язана з к-рою східнослов'ян. племен, що населяли Прикарпаття, Волинь, Придністров'я і Придніпров'я. В 9–10 ст. Закарпаття входило до складу Болг. д-ви, а з 2-ї пол. 10 ст. перебувало у сфері впливу Київської Русі, про що свідчить, зокрема, міграція сюди нас. із Прикарпаття. В "Повісті временних літ" є згадки про участь білих хорватів у війнах київ. князів проти Візантії та про похід вел. кн. київ. Володимира Святославича на білих хорватів 992. З того часу за Закарпаттям закріплюється назва "Русь". Після смерті вел. кн. київ. Володимира Святославича (1015) Закарпаття почав завойовувати угор. король Стефан I, його син Емеріх мав титул "князь русинів". На поч. 13 ст. всі землі Закарпаття опинилися під владою Угорщини. До поч. 20 ст. Закарпаття, перебуваючи в складі Угорщини, Австрії та Австро-Угорщини, мало назву "Угорська Русь".}}</ref> At that time, the Iranian-speaking [[Scythians]] and later a [[Sarmatian]] tribe called the [[Iazyges]] were present in the region. [[Proto-Slavics|Proto-Slavic]] settlement began between the 2nd-century BCE and 2nd century CE,<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|entry=Iron Age|encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia of Ukraine|Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine]]|entry-url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CI%5CR%5CIronAge.htm|author=Volodymyr Mezentsev|year=2001|orig-year=1988|publisher=[[University of Toronto Press]]|volume=2|isbn=978-0802034441|quote=In Transcarpathia, descendants of the Thracian Hallstatt culture constituted the Kushtanovytsia culture in the 6th to 3rd centuries BC. In the course of the 2nd and 1st centuries BC the indigenous Thracian and proto-Slavic population of Transcarpathia, western Podilia, Bukovyna, Galicia, and Volhynia intermingled with the Celtic tribes of the La Tàene culture that spread there from central Europe.}}</ref><ref name="EOU">{{cite encyclopedia|entry=Transcarpathia|encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia of Ukraine|Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine]]|entry-url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CT%5CR%5CTranscarpathia.htm|author1=Volodymyr Kubijovyč|author2=Vasyl Markus|author3=[[Ivan L. Rudnytsky]]|author4=Ihor Stebelsky|year=2005|orig-year=1993|publisher=[[University of Toronto Press]]|volume=5|isbn=978-0802030108|quote=In the Bronze Age (ca 1800 BC) Transcarpathia maintained continuity in its painted pottery style of the Stanove culture but gained metalworking skills (swords, knives, sickles, axes) as a result of the arrival of Thracian tribes from Transylvania. Subsequently Transcarpathia came under the control of the Celts, who arrived from the west and brought with them iron-smelting (ca 400–200 BC); the first local coins were minted in the 3rd century BC. Of the eastern nomadic peoples the earliest to influence Transcarpathia were the Iranian-speaking Scythians (expressed locally from the 6th century BC in the Kushtanovytsia culture) and then the Iazyges, a Sarmatian tribe confronting the Romans in Dacia (50 AD); their influence was followed by the invasions of the Turkic-speaking Huns (380 AD), the Avars (558 AD), and, finally, the Ugro-Finnic Magyars (896 AD). In the 2nd century AD neighboring Dacia (Transylvania) became a Roman province, and Roman merchants visited Transcarpathia. In the early Middle Ages Transcarpathia was traversed by Germanic tribes. Remnants of the Ostrogoths (the Gepidae) remained in neighboring Transylvania until the 10th century. The Slavic colonization of Transcarpathia began in the 2nd century, with migration from the north across the mountain passes. By the 8th and 9th centuries the lowlands of Transcarpathia were fairly densely peopled by White Croatians (at the time inhabiting both the north and the south side of the Carpathians). The Slavs in the upper Tysa River and in Transylvania were subject to the Avars (6th–8th centuries) and later to the Bulgarian kingdom (9th–10th centuries). With the collapse of Bulgaria in the second half of the 10th century, Transcarpathia came under the sphere of influence of the Kievan Rus'. The Kievan chroniclers noted the participation of the White Croatians in the campaigns on Byzantium. Following the incorporation of the White Croatians by Prince Volodymyr the Great into his realm, the name Rus’ or Ruthenia became entrenched in Transcarpathia.}}</ref> and during the [[Migration Period]], the region was traversed by [[Huns]] and [[Gepids]] (4th century) and [[Pannonian Avars]] (6th century).

===Slavic settlement===
By the 8th and 9th century, the valleys of the Northern and Southern slopes of the [[Carpathian Mountains]] were "densely" settled by Slavic tribe of [[White Croats]],<ref name="EOU"/><ref>{{cite journal|title=The Carpatho-Rusyns|first=Paul Robert|last=Magocsi|journal=Carpatho-Rusyn American|volume=XVIII|number=4|year=1995|url=http://carpatho-rusyn.org/cra/chap3.html|publisher=Carpatho-Rusyn Research Center}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Paul Robert |last=Magocsi |author-link=Paul Robert Magocsi |year=2002 |title=The Roots of Ukrainian Nationalism: Galicia as Ukraine's Piedmont |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CdiIa8n7SsgC |publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn=978-0802047380 |pages=2–4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Valentin Vasilyevich |last=Sedov |year=2013 |orig-year=1995 |title=Славяне в раннем Средневековье |trans-title=Sloveni u ranom srednjem veku (Slavs in Early Middle Ages) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HD4oAAAAMAAJ |publisher=Akademska knjiga |location=Novi Sad |isbn=978-8662630261 |pages=168, 444, 451}}</ref> who were closely related to [[East Slavs|East Slavic]] tribes who inhabited [[Prykarpattia]], [[Volhynia]], [[Transnistria (geographical region)|Transnistria]] and [[Dnieper Ukraine]].<ref name="EIU"/> Whereas some White Croats remained behind in Carpathian Ruthenia, others moved southward into the [[Balkans]] in the 7th century. Those who remained were conquered by [[Kievan Rus']] in the late 10th century.<ref name="EOU"/>

===Hungarian arrival===
In 896 the [[Hungarians]] crossed the Carpathian Range and migrated into the [[Pannonian Basin]].<ref name="EOU"/> [[Primary Chronicle|Nestor's Chronicle]] wrote that Hungarian tribes had to fight against the [[Vlachs|Volochi]] and settled among Slavs when on their way to Pannonia. [[Laborec (ruler)|Prince Laborec]] fell from power under the efforts of the Hungarians and the Kievan forces.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=jOBBAAAAYAAJ&q=Prince+Laborec Uzhgorod and Mukachevo: a guide, Dmitriĭ Ivanovich Pop, Ivan Ivanovich Pop, Raduga Publishers, 1987, p. 14.],</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rnMOAQAAMAAJ&q=Laborec|title=Our people: Carpatho-Rusyns and their descendants in North America|first=Paul R.|last=Magocsi|year=2005|publisher=Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers|isbn=978-0865166110|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8p3P1u_xmEEC&q=prince+laborec&pg=PA132|title=Endangered Peoples of Europe: Struggles to Survive and Thrive|first=Jean S.|last=Forward|date=2018|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0313310065|via=Google Books}}</ref> According to [[Gesta Hungarorum]], the Hungarians defeated a united [[First Bulgarian Empire|Bulgarian]] and [[Byzantine army]] led by [[Salan]] in the early 10th century on the plains of Alpár, who ruled over territory that was finally conquered by Hungarians. During the tenth and for most of the eleventh century the territory remained a borderland between the [[Kingdom of Hungary]] to the south and the [[Kievan Rus']] [[Principality of Halych]] to the north.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Magocsi |first1=Paul |title=Historical Atlas of East Central Europe |year=1993 |publisher=University of Washington Press |isbn=978-0295972480 |page=14}}</ref>

Slavs from the north ([[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|Galicia]]) and east—who actually arrived from [[Podolia]] via the mountain passes of [[Transylvania]]—continued to settle in small numbers in various parts of the Carpathian borderland, which the Hungarians and other medieval writers referred to as the Marchia Ruthenorum—the Rus' March. These new immigrants, from the north and east, like the Slavs already living in Carpathian Ruthenia, had by the eleventh century come to be known as the people of Rus', or [[Rusyns]]. Local Slavic nobility often intermarried with the [[Nobility in the Kingdom of Hungary|Hungarian nobles]] to the south. [[Rostislav of Slavonia|Prince Rostislav]], a Ruthenian noble unable to continue his family's rule of Kiev, governed a great deal of Transcarpathia from 1243 to 1261 for his [[father-in-law]], [[Béla IV of Hungary]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dimnik |first1=Martin |title=The Dynasty of Chernigov 1146–1246 |date=2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |doi=10.1017/CBO9780511496479 |isbn=9780521824422 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/dynasty-of-chernigov-11461246/84C3F0771AB3FE46ECB1180E4C91D71B |access-date=26 November 2022}}</ref> The territory's ethnic diversity increased with the influx of some 40,000 [[Cuman]] settlers, who came to the Pannonian Basin after their defeat by [[Vladimir II Monomakh|Vladimir II (Monomakh)]] in the 12th century and their ultimate defeat at the hands of the [[Mongols]] in 1238.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kincses-Nagy |first1=Eva |title=A Disappeared People and a Disappeared Language: The Cumans and the Cuman language of Hungary |date=2013 |journal=Journal of Endangered Languages |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=171–186 |URL=https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/305276}}</ref>

During the early period of Hungarian administration, part of the area was included into the [[Gyepű]] border region, while the other part was under county authority and was included into the counties of [[Ung County|Ung]], Borsova and [[Szatmár County|Szatmár]]. Later, the county administrative system was expanded to the whole of Transcarpathia, and the area was divided between the counties of Ung, [[Bereg County|Bereg]], [[Ugocsa County|Ugocsa]], and [[Máramaros County|Máramaros]]. At the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century, during the collapse of the central power in the Kingdom of Hungary, the region was part of the domains of semi-independent oligarchs [[Amadeus Aba]] and [[Nicholas Pok]]. Although King [[Leo I of Galicia|Leo I]] of [[Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia|Galicia–Volhynia]] (Lev Danylovych) attempted to extend his influence over parts of the Carpathian region during the late 13th century, there is no reliable historical evidence that north-western Carpathian Ruthenia was permanently annexed to his kingdom.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Magyarország története, 895-1301 (Osiris tankönyvek, 2003) |url=https://www.szaktars.hu/osiris/view/kristo-gyula-magyarorszag-tortenete-895-1301-osiris-tankonyvek-2003/?pg=0&layout=s |access-date=2025-03-11 |website=www.szaktars.hu}}</ref> A document from 1299 proves [[vassal]] relations of the [[Bereg County|Count of Bereg]] with "Leo, Prince of Ruthenians", but Galician rulers are not mentioned in latter documents from the area.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Акти та документи Галицько-Волинського князівства ХІІІ - першої половини XIV століть.|author=Олег Купчинський|date=2004|publisher=[[Shevchenko Scientific Society]]|isbn=9667155854|pages=125-129}} [https://irbis-nbuv.gov.ua/cgi-bin/ua/elib.exe?Z21ID=&I21DBN=UKRLIB&P21DBN=UKRLIB&S21STN=1&S21REF=10&S21FMT=online_book&C21COM=S&S21CNR=20&S21P01=0&S21P02=0&S21P03=FF=&S21STR=ukr0000624 Link]</ref> Contemporary Hungarian royal charters from the period confirm that the region — including key fortresses like Huszt and Munkács — remained under the control of the Kingdom of Hungary.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Engal |first1=Pal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3RKJDwAAQBAJ |title=The Realm of St Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary, 895-1526 |last2=Engel |first2=Pal |last3=Ayton |first3=Andrew |last4=Engel |first4=Pál |date=2001-02-23 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-0-85773-173-9 |language=en}}</ref>

Historians such as Gyula Kristó and Pál Engel agree that Leo's interventions were temporary and opportunistic, taking advantage of internal conflicts within Hungary, but they did not lead to lasting occupation.

Thus, the claim that north-western Carpathian Ruthenia belonged to the [[Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia]] between 1280 and 1320 is not supported by primary sources or mainstream historical scholarship.<ref>{{cite web |title=Images |url=https://nat2012.nkp.hu/tankonyv/tortenelem_9/img/6418.png |website=nat2012.nkp.hu |format=PNG}}</ref>

The assumption that Transcarpathia briefly came under the rule of the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia is, in this context, primarily the result of Ukrainian historiography’s attempt to establish historical rights and continuity over the region — suggesting that "medieval Ukraine" had annexed it even before 1946.

This narrative is further reinforced by the frequent appearance of Transcarpathia on maps of Kievan Rus' as if it had been part of, or directly linked to, Kievan Rus'. However, this claim is not supported by either archaeological or historical evidence. On the contrary, both the historical sources — which indicate the settlement of Ruthenians in the region during the 13th and 14th centuries — and the archaeological record — which shows a lack of Orthodox church remains from that period — argue against such interpretations.

Between the 12th and 15th centuries, the area was probably colonized by [[Eastern Orthodox]] groups of [[Vlach]] ([[Romanians|Romanian]]) highlanders with accompanying [[Ruthenians|Ruthenian]] populations. Initially, the Romanians were organized into the [[Voivodeship of Maramureș]], formally integrated into Hungary in 1402. All the groups, including local [[Slavic peoples|Slavic]] population, blended together, creating a distinctive culture from the main [[Ruthenians|Ruthenian]]-speaking areas. Over time, because of geographical and political isolation from the main Ruthenian-speaking territory, the inhabitants developed distinctive features.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

===Part of Hungary and Transylvania===
[[File:Hungary-ethnic groups.jpg|thumb|1885 [[ethnographic]] map of the Hungarian Crown {{legend|gold|[[Ruthenians]]}}]]
In 1526 the region was divided between the [[Kingdom of Hungary (1526–1867)|Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary]] and the [[Eastern Hungarian Kingdom]]. Beginning in 1570 the latter transformed to the [[Principality of Transylvania (1570–1711)|Principality of Transylvania]], which soon fell under [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] suzerainty. The part of Transcarpathia under Habsburg administration was included into the [[Captaincies of the Kingdom of Hungary|Captaincy of Upper Hungary]], which was one of the administrative units of the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary. During this period, an important factor in the Ruthenian cultural identity, namely religion, came to the forefront. The [[Union of Brest]] (1595) and [[Union of Uzhhorod]] (1646) were instituted, causing the [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Byzantine Orthodox Churches]] of Carpathian and Transcarpathian Rus' to come under the jurisdiction of [[Roman Catholic Church|Rome]], thus establishing the so-called [[Uniate|"Unia"]] of [[Eastern Catholic Churches|Eastern Catholic churches]], the [[Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church|Ruthenian Catholic Church]] and the [[Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church]].

In the 17th century (until 1648) the entire region was part of the [[Principality of Transylvania (1570–1711)|Principality of Transylvania]] and between 1682 and 1685 its north-western part was administered by the Ottoman vassal state of [[Principality of Upper Hungary|Upper Hungary]], while the south-eastern parts remained under the administration of Transylvania. From 1699 the entire region eventually became part of the [[Habsburg monarchy]], divided between the [[Kingdom of Hungary (1526–1867)|Kingdom of Hungary]] and the Principality of Transylvania. Later, the entire region was included into the Kingdom of Hungary. Between 1850 and 1860 the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary was divided into five military districts, and the region was part of the [[Military District of Kaschau]].

===Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen===
After 1867, the region was administratively included into [[Transleithania]] or the Hungarian part of [[Austria-Hungary]].

In the 19th and 20th centuries, many nationalist groups vied for unification or alignment with many different possible nationalities, all arguing that the Rus people would be better off uniting with that nation for security or staying within the nation of Hungary. Many of these groups utilized the ethnic makeup of the region, with ideas such as the Lemko-Boiko-Hutsul schema looking to prove the Slavic nature of the Rus, and therefore justifying union with Russia (or later a Ukrainian state) under the claim that the Rus were part of that Slavic cultural sphere. These Rus or Ruthenians would argue this point until the early 1900s when action would be taken.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Magocsi |first1=Paul |title=With Their Backs to the Mountains: A History of Carpathian Rus' and Carpatho-Rusyns |date=2015 |publisher=Central European University Press |location=New York |page=5 |url=https://www.google.com/search?q=With+Their+Backs+to+the+Mountains%3A+A+History+of+Carpathian+Rus%E2%80%99+and+Carpatho-Rusyns+ |access-date=26 November 2022}}</ref>
 
In 1910, the population of Transcarpathia was 605,942, of which 330,010 (54.5%) were speakers of [[Ruthenian language|Ruthenian]], 185,433 (30.6%) were speakers of [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]], 64,257 (10.6%) were speakers of [[German language|German]], 11,668 (1.9%) were speakers of [[Romanian language|Romanian]], 6,346 (1%) were speakers of [[Slovak language|Slovak]] or [[Czech language|Czech]], and 8,228 (1.4%) were speakers of other languages.

* [[Ung County]], Ungvár ([[Uzhhorod]])
* [[Bereg County]], Beregszász ([[Berehove]])
* [[Ugocsa County]], Nagyszőllős ([[Vynohradiv]])
* [[Máramaros County]] (only the northern part), Máramarossziget ([[Sighetu Marmației]])

===Transitional period (1918–1919)===
[[File:Gregory Žatkovich.jpg|thumb|[[Gregory Žatkovich]] signing the Declaration of Common Aims at Independence Hall, [[Philadelphia]] 10–26–1918.]]
After [[World War I]], the [[Dissolution of Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian monarchy collapsed]] and the region was briefly (in 1918 and 1919) claimed as part of the independent [[West Ukrainian People's Republic|West Ukraine]] Republic.{{dubious|date=April 2022}} However, for most of this period the region was controlled by the newly formed independent [[Hungarian Democratic Republic]], with a short period of West Ukrainian control.

On November 8, 1918, the first National Council (the Ľubovňa Council, which later reconvened as the [[Prešov]] Council) was held in western Ruthenia. The first of many councils, it simply stated the desire of its members to separate from the newly formed Hungarian state but did not specify a particular alternative—only that it must involve the right to [[self-determination]].<ref name=preclik2019>Preclík, Vratislav. Masaryk a legie (Masaryk and legions), váz. kniha, 219 pages, first issue vydalo nakladatelství Paris Karviná, Žižkova 2379 (734 01 Karvina, Czech Republic) ve spolupráci s Masarykovým demokratickým hnutím (Masaryk Democratic Movement, Prague), 2019, {{ISBN|978-8087173473}}, pp. 35–53, 106–107, 111–112, 124–125, 128, 129, 132, 140–148, 184–199.</ref>

Other councils, such as the Carpatho-Ruthenian National Council meetings in Huszt ([[Khust]]) (November 1918), called for unification with the [[West Ukrainian People's Republic]]. Only in early January 1919 were the first calls heard in Ruthenia for union with [[Czechoslovakia]].<ref name=preclik2019/>

====Rus'ka Krajina====
<section begin=ruskaKrajina/>
Throughout November and the following few months, councils met every few weeks, calling for various solutions. Some wanted to remain part of the Hungarian Democratic Republic, but with greater autonomy; the most notable of these, the [[Uzhhorod]] Council (November 9, 1918), declared itself the representative of the [[Rusyns|Rusyn people]] and began negotiations with Hungarian authorities. These negotiations ultimately resulted in the passage of ''Law no. 10''<ref name=preclik2019/> by the Hungarian government on December 21, 1918, thereby establishing the autonymous Rusyn province of [[Rus'ka Krajina]] from the Rusyn-inhabited parts of four eastern counties ([[Máramaros County]], Ugocha County, [[Bereg County]], [[Ung County]].<ref name=magocsi2002>{{Cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Rusyn history and culture |date=2002 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |author1=Paul R. Magocsi |author2=Ivan Pop |isbn=978-1442674431 |location=Toronto, Ont. |oclc=244768154}}</ref>

On February 5, 1919, a provisional government for Rus'ka Krajina was established. The "Rus'ka [[rada]]" (or Rusyn Council), was made up of 42 representatives from the four constituent counties and headed by a chairman, Orest Sabov, and vice-chairman, Avhustyn Shtefan. The following month, on March 4, elections were held for a formal [[Diet (assembly)|diet]] of 36 deputies. Upon election, the new diet requested the Hungarian government define the borders of the autonomous region, which had not yet been elaborated; without an established territory, the deputies argued that the diet was useless.<ref name=magocsi2002/>

On March 21, 1919, the Democratic Republic of Hungary was replaced by the [[Hungarian Soviet Republic]], which then announced the existence of a "Soviet Rus'ka Krajina". Elections organized by the new Hungarian government of a people's [[soviet]] (council) on April 6 and 7, 1919 led to Rus'ka Krajina then had two councils: the original diet, and the newly elected soviet. Representatives from both councils then decided to join, forming the ''Uriadova rada'' ("Governing Council) of Rus'ka Krajina.<ref name=magocsi2002/>

====Fall of Soviet Hungary====
Prior to this, in July 1918, [[Rusyn Americans|Rusyn immigrants]] in the United States had convened and called for complete [[independence]]. Failing that, they would try to unite with [[Galicia (Central Europe)|Galicia]] and [[Bukovina]]; and failing that, they would demand autonomy, though they did not specify under which state. They approached the American government and were told that the only viable option was unification with [[Czechoslovakia]]. Their leader, [[Gregory Zatkovich]], then signed the "Philadelphia Agreement" with Czechoslovak President [[Tomáš Masaryk|Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk]], guaranteeing Rusyn autonomy upon unification with Czechoslovakia on 25 October 1918.<ref>Preclík, Vratislav. Masaryk a legie (Masaryk and legions), váz. kniha, 219 str., vydalo nakladatelství Paris Karviná, Žižkova 2379 (734 01 Karvina, Czech Republic) ve spolupráci s Masarykovým demokratickým hnutím (Masaryk Democratic Movement, Prague), 2019, {{ISBN|978-8087173473}}, pp. 87–89, 110–112, 124–128, 140–148, 184–190</ref> A referendum was held among American Rusyn parishes in November 1918, with a resulting 67% in favor. Another 28% voted for union with [[Ukraine]], and less than one percent each for Galicia, Hungary and Russia. Less than 2% desired complete independence.

In April 1919, [[First Czechoslovak Republic|Czechoslovak]] control on the ground was established, when [[Czechoslovak Army]] troops acting in coordination with [[Romanian Land Forces|Royal Romanian Army]] forces arriving from the east—both acting under [[French Third Republic|French]] auspices—entered the area. In a series of battles they defeated and crushed the local militias of the newly formed [[Hungarian Soviet Republic]], which had created the [[Slovak Soviet Republic]] and whose proclaimed aim was to "unite the Hungarian, Rusyn and Jewish toilers against the exploiters of the same nationalities". Communist sympathizers accused the Czechoslovaks and Romanians of atrocities, such as public hangings and the clubbing to death of wounded prisoners.<ref>Quoted extensively in Béla Illés, "A Carpathian Raphosody", 1939</ref> This fighting prevented the arrival of [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Soviet]] aid, for which the [[Hungarian Communist Party|Hungarian Communists]] hoped in vain; the [[Bolsheviks]] were also too preoccupied with their own [[Russian Civil War|civil war]] to assist. 

In May 1919, a Central National Council convened in the United States under Zatkovich and voted unanimously to accept the admission of Carpathian Ruthenia to Czechoslovakia. Back in Ruthenia, on May 8, 1919, a general meeting of representatives from all the previous councils was held, and declared that "The Central Russian National Council... completely endorse the decision of the American Uhro-Rusin Council to unite with the Czech-Slovak nation on the basis of full national autonomy." Note that the Central Russian National Council was an offshoot of the [[:uk:Центральна Руська Народна Рада|Central Ruthenian National Council]] and represented a Carpathian branch of the [[Russophiles of Galicia|Russophiles movement]] that existed in the Austrian Galicia.{{efn|Similarly as in Galicia, Subcarpathian Ruthenia also had two main movements for self determination (Ukrainophile and Russophile).<ref>Shevchenko, K. ''[http://zapadrus.su/slavm/ispubsm/308-2011-04-04-14-38-32.html How Subcarpathian Ruthenian became Carpathian Ukraine (Как Подкарпатская Русь стала Карпатской Украиной)]''. Zapadnaya Rus. 4 April 2011</ref>}}

The Hungarian left-wing writer [[Béla Illés (writer)|Béla Illés]] claimed that the meeting was little more than a farce, with various "notables" fetched from their homes by police, formed into a "National Assembly" without any semblance of a democratic process, and effectively ordered to endorse incorporation into Czechoslovakia. He further asserts that [[Georges Clemenceau|Clemenceau]] had personally instructed the French general on the spot to get the area incorporated into Czechoslovakia "at all costs", so as to create a buffer separating Soviet Ukraine from Hungary, as part of the French anti-Communist "[[Cordon sanitaire (politics)|Cordon sanitaire]]" policy, and that it was the French rather than the Czechoslovaks who made the effective decisions.<ref>Illés, op.cit.</ref>

===Part of Czechoslovakia (1920–1938)===
{{main|Rusyns and Ukrainians in Czechoslovakia (1918–1938)}}
[[File:Zabiełło, Jan - Ruthenians autonomy in Czecho-SLovak state declared in Treaty of Versailles 1919.jpg|thumb|Map of Ruthenians autonomy in Czecho-Slovak state, which was promised in [[Treaty of Versailles]] in Article 81 and confirmed in [[Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919)|Treaty of St. Germain]] (Jan Zabiełło 1920). Visible cities Csap ([[Chop, Ukraine|Chop]]), Munkacz ([[Mukachevo]]), Beregszász ([[Berehove]]), Dolhe ([[Dovhe, Zakarpattia Oblast|Dovhe]]), Tiszaújlak ([[Vylok]]), Királyháza ([[Korolevo]]), Huszt ([[Khust]]).]]
The Article 53, [[Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919)|Treaty of St. Germain]] (September 10, 1919) granted the Carpathian [[Ruthenians]] autonomy,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/dfat/treaties/1920/3.html|title=Treaty of Peace between the Allied and Associated Powers and Austria; Protocol, Declaration and Special Declaration [1920] ATS 3|website=www.austlii.edu.au}}</ref> which was later upheld to some extent by the [[Czechoslovak Constitution of 1920|Czechoslovak constitution]]. Some rights were, however, withheld by Prague, which justified its actions by claiming that the process was to be a gradual one; and Ruthenians representation in the national sphere was less than that hoped for. Carpathian Ruthenia included former Hungarian territories of [[Ung County]], [[Bereg County]], [[Ugocsa County]] and [[Máramaros County]].

After the [[Paris Peace Conference, 1919|Paris Peace Conference]], Transcarpathia became part of [[Czechoslovakia]]. Whether this was widely popular among the mainly peasant population, is debatable; clearly, however, what mattered most to Ruthenians was not which country they would join, but that they be granted autonomy within it. After their experience of [[Magyarization]], few Carpathian Rusyns were eager to remain under Hungarian rule, and they desired to ensure self-determination.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hungarian-history.hu/lib/macartney2/4Ruthenia.pdf |title=www.hungarian-history.hu |access-date=2014-01-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924031930/http://www.hungarian-history.hu/lib/macartney2/4Ruthenia.pdf |archive-date=2015-09-24 }}</ref> According to the [[Czechoslovak Constitution of 1920]], the former region of the Kingdom of Hungary, Ruthenian Land (''Ruszka Krajna''), was officially renamed to Subcarpathian Ruthenia (''Podkarpatská Rus'').

In 1920, the area was used as a conduit for arms and ammunition for the anti-Soviet Poles fighting in the [[Polish-Soviet War]] directly to the north, while local Communists sabotaged the trains and tried to help the Soviet side.<ref>Illés, op.cit., refers to local Communists lighting fires on Carpathian peaks, which they hoped would show the way to [[Budyonny]]'s Red Cavalry</ref> During and after the war many [[Ukrainian nationalism|Ukrainian nationalists]] in [[Eastern Galicia|East Galicia]] who opposed both Polish and Soviet rule fled to Carpathian Ruthenia.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Steiner|first=Zara|title=The lights that failed : European international history, 1919–1933|date=2005|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0191518812|location=Oxford|oclc=86068902}}</ref>

[[Gregory Žatkovich]] was appointed governor of the province by Masaryk on April 20, 1920, and resigned almost a year later, on April 17, 1921, to return to his law practice in [[Pittsburgh]], [[Pennsylvania]], US. The reason for his resignation was dissatisfaction with the borders with Slovakia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hungarian-history.hu/lib/macartney2/4Ruthenia.pdf |title=www.hungarian-history.hu |access-date=2014-01-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924031930/http://www.hungarian-history.hu/lib/macartney2/4Ruthenia.pdf |archive-date=2015-09-24 }} p. 223</ref> His tenure is a historical anomaly as the only American citizen ever acting as governor of a province that later became a part of the USSR.

===Subcarpathian Rus' (1928–1939)===
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In 1928, [[Czechoslovakia]] was divided into four provinces: Bohemia, Moravia-Silesia, Slovakia, and the Subcarpathian Rus'.<ref name="pudkarpatskarus.eu">{{cite web |url=http://www.pudkarpatskarus.eu/rscz/article065.htm |title=Subcarpathian Rus – Podkarpatska Rus |access-date=2009-08-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219100846/http://www.pudkarpatskarus.eu/rscz/article065.htm |archive-date=2015-02-19 }}</ref> The main town of the region, and its capital until 1938, was [[Užhorod]]. It had an area of {{convert|12097|km2}}, and its 1921 population was estimated as being 592,044.{{cn|date=November 2023}}

In the period 1918–1938 the Czechoslovak government attempted to bring the Subcarpathian Rus', with 70% of the population illiterate, no industry, and a herdsman way of life,<ref name="pudkarpatskarus.eu" /> up to the level of the rest of Czechoslovakia. Thousands of Czech teachers, policemen, clerks and businessmen went to the region. The Czechoslovak government built thousands of kilometers of railways, roads, airports, and hundreds of schools and residential buildings.<ref name="pudkarpatskarus.eu"/>

The Rusyn people decided to join the new state of Czechoslovakia, a decision that happened parallel to other events that affected these proceedings.{{clarify|date=September 2023}} At the [[Paris Peace Conference, 1919|Paris Peace Conference]], several other countries (including Hungary, Ukraine and Russia) laid claim to Carpathian Rus'. The Allies, however, had few alternatives to choosing Czechoslovakia. Hungary had lost the war and therefore gave up its claims; Ukraine was seen as politically unviable; and Russia was in the midst of a civil war. Thus the only importance of Rusyns' decision to become part of Czechoslovakia was in creating, at least initially, good relations between the leaders of Carpathian Rus' and Czechoslovakia. The [[Ukrainian language]] was not actively persecuted in Czechoslovakia during the [[interwar period]], unlike in [[History of the Ukrainian minority in Poland|Poland]] and [[Bukovina#Kingdom of Romania|Romania]].<ref name="Serhy">[[Serhy Yekelchyk]] ''"Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation"'', [[Oxford University Press]] (2007), {{ISBN|978-0195305463}}, pp. 128–130</ref> 73 percent of local parents voted against Ukrainian language education for their children in a referendum conducted in Subcarpathian Rus' in 1937.<ref>Paul R. Magocsi. Ivan Ivanovich Pop. Encyclopedia of Rusyn history and culture. University of Toronto Press. 2002. p. 512.</ref>

===Carpathian Ukraine (1938–1939)===
{{Main|Carpatho-Ukraine{{!}}Carpathian Ukraine}}

[[File:Subcarpathia - Carpatho-Ukraine.svg|lang=en|thumb|left|[[Carpatho-Ukraine]] in 1939]]
In November 1938, under the [[First Vienna Award]]—a result of the [[Munich Agreement]]—[[Second Czechoslovak Republic|Czechoslovakia]] ceded southern Carpathian Rus to [[Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946)|Hungary]]. The remainder of Subcarpathian Rus' received [[Wiktionary:autonomy|autonomy]], with Andrej Bródy as [[prime minister]] of the autonomous government. After the resignation of the government following a local political crisis, [[Avhustyn Voloshyn]] became [[prime minister]] of the new government. In December 1938, Subcarpathian Rus' was renamed to Carpathian Ukraine.

Following the [[Slovak Republic (1939–1945)#Creation|Slovak proclamation of independence]] on March 14, 1939, and the [[German occupation of Czechoslovakia|Nazis' seizure of the Czech lands]] on March 15, Carpathian Ukraine declared its independence as the [[Republic of Carpatho-Ukraine]], with [[Avhustyn Voloshyn]] as head of state, and was immediately occupied and annexed by [[Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946)|Hungary]], restoring provisionally the former counties of [[Ung County|Ung]], [[Bereg County|Bereg]] and partially [[Máramaros County|Máramaros]].<ref name="2660044bkarpatskoiukraini" />

===Governorate of Subcarpathia (1939–1945)===
{{Main|Carpathian Ruthenia during World War II|The Holocaust in Hungary}}

[[Image:May 1944 - Jews from Carpathian Ruthenia arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau.jpg|thumb|Carpathian Ruthenian Jews arrive at [[Auschwitz]]–Birkenau, May 1944. Without being registered to the camp system, most were killed in gas chambers hours after arriving.]]
On March 23, 1939, Hungary [[Slovak–Hungarian War|annexed]] further territories disputed with [[Slovak Republic (1939–1945)|Slovakia]] bordering with the west of the former Carpatho-Rus. The Hungarian invasion was followed by a few weeks of terror in which more than 27,000 people were shot dead without trial and investigation.<ref name="2660044bkarpatskoiukraini"/> Over 75,000 Ukrainians decided to seek asylum in the [[Soviet Union]]; of those almost 60,000 of them died in [[Gulag]] prison-camps.<ref name="2660044bkarpatskoiukraini"/> Others joined the remaining Czech troops from the [[Czechoslovak army-in-exile]].<ref name="2660044bkarpatskoiukraini">{{in lang|uk}} [https://ukrinform.ua/rubric-society/2660044-sogodni-80ricca-z-dna-progolosenna-karpatskoi-ukraini.html Today is the 80th anniversary of the proclamation of the Carpathian Ukraine], [[Ukrinform]] (15 March 2019)</ref>

Upon liquidation of [[Carpatho-Ukraine]], in the territory annexed the Governorate of Subcarpathia was installed and divided into three, the administrative branch offices of Ung ({{langx|hu|Ungi közigazgatási kirendeltség}}), Bereg ({{langx|hu|Beregi közigazgatási kirendeltség}}) and Máramaros ({{langx|hu|Máramarosi közigazgatási kirendeltség}}) governed from [[Uzhhorod|Ungvár]], [[Mukachevo|Munkács]] and [[Khust|Huszt]] respectively, having [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]] and [[Rusyn language]] as official languages.

<nowiki>Memoirs and historical studies provide much evidence that in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Rusyn-Jewish relations were generally peaceful. In 1939, census records showed that 80,000 Jews lived in the autonomous province of Ruthenia. Jews made up approximately 14% of the prewar population; however, this population was concentrated in the larger towns, especially </nowiki>[[Mukachevo]], where they constituted 43% of the prewar population. 
After the [[Operation Margarethe|German occupation of Hungary]] (19 March 1944) the pro-[[Nazi]] policies of the Hungarian government resulted in emigration and deportation of Hungarian-speaking [[Jew]]s, and other groups living in the territory were decimated by war. 
During the [[Holocaust]], 17 main ghettos were set up in cities in Carpathian Ruthenia, from which all Jews were taken to [[Auschwitz]] for extermination. Ruthenian ghettos were set up in May 1944 and liquidated by June 1944. Most of the Jews of Transcarpathia were killed, though a number survived, either because they were hidden by their neighbours, or were forced into [[labour battalion]]s, which often guaranteed food and shelter.

The end of the war had a significant impact on the ethnic Hungarian population of the area: 10,000 fled before the arrival of [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] forces. Many of the remaining adult men (25,000) were deported to the Soviet Union; about 30% of them died in Soviet [[labor camp]]s. As a result of this development since 1938, the Hungarian and Hungarian-speaking population of Transcarpathia was recorded differently in various censuses and estimations from that time: 1930 census recorded 116,548 ethnic Hungarians, while the contested Hungarian census from 1941 shows as many as 233,840 speakers of Hungarian language in the region. Subsequent estimations are showing 66,000 ethnic Hungarians in 1946 and 139,700 in 1950, while the Soviet census from 1959 recorded 146,247 Hungarians.

===Transition to Soviet takeover and control (1944–1945)===
{{Main articles|Soviet annexation of Transcarpathia}}

[[File:ZakapratskaUkraina1944.png|thumb|Front page of the Zakarpattia Ukraine newspaper (1944) with manifest of unification with [[Soviet Ukraine]]]]
The Soviet takeover of the region started with the [[Battle of the Dukla Pass|East Carpathian Strategic Offensive]] in the fall of 1944. This offensive consisted of two parts: the [[Battle of the Dukla Pass]] in effort to support the [[Slovak National Uprising]]; and the Battle of Uzhgorod to break through to the [[Great Hungarian Plain|Hungarian plains]] and encircle [[Wehrmacht|German troops]] in [[Transylvania]]. On 28 October 1944, upon conclusion of the offensive campaign, most of Subcarpathian Ruthenia was secured by the [[Red Army|Workers-Peasants Red Army]] (RKKA).

The Czechoslovak government delegation led by minister František Němec arrived in [[Khust]] to establish the provisional Czechoslovak administration,<ref name=pltv365181126/> according to the treaties between the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] and [[Czechoslovak government-in-exile|Czechoslovak governments]] on 8 May 1944.<ref name=pltv365181126>Bryzh, Yevhen. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20190605151758/https://poltava365.com/365-dnivx-nasha-istoriyax-26-listopadax-yak-zakarpattya-dobr.html 365 days. Our history. 26 November. How Transcarpathia "voluntarily" and decisively became Ukraine (365 днів. Наша історія. 26 листопада. Як Закарпаття "добровільно" і остаточно стало Україною)]''. Poltava 365. 26 November 2018.</ref> According to the Soviet–Czechoslovak treaty, it was agreed that once any liberated territory of Czechoslovakia ceased to be a combat zone of the Red Army, those lands would be transferred to full control of the Czechoslovak state.<ref name="pltv365181126" /> However, after a few weeks, the Red Army and [[NKVD]] started to obstruct the Czechoslovak delegation's work. Communications between Khust and the government center in exile in London were obstructed and the Czechoslovak officials were forced to use [[underground radio]].<ref name=pltv365181126/>

On 14 November 1944 the underground radio "Vladislav" transmitted the following message from Khust to London: "The Red Army is subjugating everything to it. We are requesting information, whether it is discussed with the government. Our situation is critical. An open campaign is ongoing for uniting Subcarpathian Ukraine with the Soviet Union. Forced recruitment to the ranks of the Red Army. People are uneducated. Awaiting your recommendations. We urgently need instructions from the government."<ref name="pltv365181126" />

On 5 November 1944, in anticipation of Soviet rule, the Uzhgorod city council introduced [[Moscow time]] (2 hours ahead of [[Central European Time]]). According to Magdalena Lavrincova, this was perceived by many as a sign of the [[totalitarianism]] to come.<ref name=magocsi>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Nzj2DAAAQBAJ With Their Backs to the Mountains: A History of Carpathian Rus? and Carpatho-Rusyns], by Paul Robert Magocsi, Central European University Press, 2015</ref>

In November 1944, in [[Mukachevo]], there was a meeting of representatives of [[Communist Party of Czechoslovakia|Communist Party]] organization from local districts, who created an organization committee to call for a party conference.<ref name=usecpzu>Hranchak, I. ''[http://leksika.com.ua/15740121/ure/komunistichna_partiya_zakarpatskoyi_ukrayini Communist Party of Zakarpattia Ukraine (КОМУНІСТИЧНА ПАРТІЯ ЗАКАРПАТСЬКОЇ УКРАЇНИ)]''. [[Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia]].</ref> On 19 November 1944 at the conference in Mukachevo, the Communist Party of Zakarpattia Ukraine was established.<ref name=usecpzu/> The conference also decided to unite Carpathian Ruthenia with the [[Ukrainian SSR]], to strengthen People's committees as organs of revolutionary authority, and to organize help for the Red Army.<ref name=usecpzu/> The conference also elected its central committee and its first secretary, Ivan Turyanytsia, and agreed to hold a congress of the People's committees on 26 November 1944.<ref name=usecpzu/>

The "National Council of Transcarpatho-Ukraine" was set up in [[Mukachevo]] under the protection of the Red Army. On November 26 this committee, led by [[Ivan Turyanitsa]] (a Rusyn who [[Desertion|deserted]] from the [[I Corps (Czechoslovakia)|Czechoslovak army]]) proclaimed the will of Ukrainian people to separate from Czechoslovakia and join [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Soviet Ukraine]]. After two months of conflicts and negotiations the Czechoslovak government delegation departed from Khust on February 1, 1945, leaving Carpathian Ukraine under Soviet control.

===Transcarpathian Ukraine–Soviet Union (1945–1991)===
On 29 June 1945, Czechoslovakia signed a treaty with the Soviet Union, officially ceding the region.<ref name="Kafkadesk-2021">{{Cite web|title=On this Day, in 1945: Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by the Soviet Union |date=29 June 1992 |publisher=Kafkadesk |url=https://kafkadesk.org/2021/06/29/on-this-day-in-1945-carpathian-ruthenia-was-annexed-by-the-soviet-union/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210726185851/https://kafkadesk.org/2021/06/29/on-this-day-in-1945-carpathian-ruthenia-was-annexed-by-the-soviet-union/ |archive-date=26 July 2021 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>For a discussion of the treaty see {{Cite book|last=O'Connell |first=Daniel P. |year=1967 |title=State Succession in Municipal Law and International Law: Internal relations |volume=1 |location=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=213 |isbn=978-0521058582 }}; for a copy of the treaty see ''British and Foreign State Papers'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=h3N-IB3iQYQC volume cxlv], p. 1096.</ref> Between 1945 and 1947, the new Soviet authorities fortified the new borders, and in July 1947 declared Transcarpathia as a "restricted zone of the highest level", with checkpoints on the mountain passes connecting the region to mainland Ukraine.<ref name=magocsi/>

In December 1944 the National Council of Transcarpatho-Ukraine set up a special people's tribunal in [[Uzhgorod]] to try and condemn all collaborationists with the previous regimes—both Hungary and Carpatho-Ukraine. The court was allowed to hand down either 10 years of forced labour, or the death penalty. Several Ruthenian leaders, including [[Andrej Bródy]] and [[Shtefan Fentsyk]], were condemned and executed in May 1946. [[Avgustyn Voloshyn]] also died in prison. The extent of the repression showed to many Carpatho-Ruthenian activists how it would not have been possible to find an accommodation with the coming Soviet regime as it had been with all previous ones.<ref name=magocsi/>

After breaking the [[Greek Catholic Church]] in Eastern [[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|Galicia]] in 1946, Soviet authorities pushed for the return to Orthodoxy of Greek-Catholic parishes in Transcarpathia too, including by engineering an accident leading to the death of recalcitrant bishop [[Theodore Romzha]] on 1 November 1947. In January 1949 the Greek-Catholic Eparchy of Mukachevo was declared illegal; remaining priests and nuns were arrested, and church properties were nationalised and parcelled for public use or lent to the [[Russian Orthodox Church]] ([[Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'|Moscow Patriarchate]]), the only accepted religious authority in the region.<ref name=magocsi/>

Cultural institutions were also forbidden, including the [[Russophilia|Russophile]] Dukhnovych Society, the [[Ukrainophilia|Ukrainophile]] Prosvita, and the Subcarpathian Scholarly Society. New books and publications were circulated, including the ''Zakarpatsk{{'}}a Pravda'' (130,000 copies). The [[Uzhhorod National University]] was opened in 1945 and over 816 [[cinematograph]]s were open by 1967. The [[Ukrainian language]] was the first language of instruction in schools throughout the region, followed by [[Russian language|Russian]], which was used in academia.{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}} Most new generations had a passive knowledge of [[Rusyn language]], but no knowledge about local culture. XIX-century Rusyn intellectuals were labelled as "members of the reactionary class and instruments of Vatican obscurantism". The Rusyn anthem and hymn were banned from public performance. Carpatho-Rusyn folk culture and songs, which were promoted, were presented as part of Transcarpathian regional culture as a local variant of Ukrainian culture.<ref name=magocsi/><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0g6cYw35Ik]| Воскресеніє народ, Resurrection Of A Nation, John and Helen Timo Foundation 2019</ref>

In 1924, the [[Comintern]] declared all East Slavic inhabitants of Czechoslovakia ([[Rusyns]], Carpatho-Russians, [[Rusnaks]]) to be [[Ukrainians]]. Starting with the 1946 census, all Rusyns were recorded as Ukrainians; anyone clinging to the old label was considered a separatist and a potential counter-revolutionary.

In February 1945, the National Council confiscated 53,000 hectares of land from large landowners and redistribute it to 54,000 peasant households (37% of the population). [[Collectivization in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Collectivisation of land]] started in 1946; around 2,000 peasants were arrested during protests in 1948–49 and sent for forced labour in the [[gulags]]. Collectivisation, including of mountain shepherds, was completed by May 1950. [[Planned economy|Central planning]] decisions set Transcarpatia to become a "land of orchards and vineyards" between 1955 and 1965, planting 98,000 hectares with little results. Attempt to cultivate [[tea]] and [[citrus]] also failed due to the climate. Most [[vineyard]]s were uprooted twenty years later, during [[Gorbachev]]'s anti-alcohol campaign in 1985–87.<ref name=magocsi/>

The Soviet period also meant the upscaling of industrialization in Transcarpathia. State-owned lumber mills, chemical and food-processing plants widened, with Mukachevo's tobacco factory and Solotvyno's salt works as the biggest ones, providing steady employment to the residents of the region, beyond the traditional subsistence agriculture. And while traditional labour migration routes to the fields of Hungary or the factories of the United States were now closed, Carpathian Ruthens and Romanians could now move for seasonal work in Russia's North and East.<ref name=magocsi/>

The inhabitants of the region grew steadily in the Soviet period, from 776,000 in 1946 to over 1.2 million in 1989. Uzhgorod's population increased five-fold, from 26,000 to 117,000, and [[Mukachevo]] likewise from 26,600 to 84,000. This population increase also reflected demographic changes. The arrival of the Red Army meant the departure of 5,100 Magyars and 2,500 Germans, while 15–20,000 Jewish survivors of the Holocaust also decided to move out before the borders were sealed. By 1945, around 30,000 Hungarians and Germans had been interned and sent for labour camps in Eastern Ukraine and Siberia; while amnestied in 1955, around 5,000 did not come back. In January 1946, 2,000 more Germans were deported. In return, a large number of Ukrainians and Russians moved to Transcarpathia, were they found jobs in the industry, the military, or the civilian administration. By 1989, around 170,000 Ukrainians (mainly from nearby Galizia) and 49,000 Russians were living in Transcarpatia, mainly in new residential blocks in the main towns of Uzhgorod and Mukachevo, where the dominant language had soon turned from Hungarian and Yiddish to Russian. They kept being considered newcomers (''novoprybuli'') due to their disconnect from the Rusyn- and Hungarian-speaking countryside.<ref name=magocsi/>

===Transition to independent Ukraine (1991–)===
{{See also|Zakarpattia Oblast|1991 Transcarpathian general regional referendum}}
In July 1991 the [[Ukrainian SSR]] adopted a law about referendums that lasted until 2012. Soon after the [[August coup]] in Moscow (19–22), on 24 August 1991 the [[Verkhovna Rada]] (Ukrainian parliament) of the [[Ukrainian SSR]] proclaimed declaration about its independence and also prohibited the Communist Party in the republic.<ref name=zakrp110922>Pipash, Volodymyr. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20190605224030/https://zakarpattya.net.ua/Blogs/87564-Politychne-protystoiannia-na-Zakarpatti-voseny-1991-r. Political confrontations in Zakarpattia in the fall of 1991. To the 20th Anniversary of Ukrainian Independence. Part 4 (Політичне протистояння на Закарпатті восени 1991 р. До двадцятиріччя Незалежності України. Ч. 4)]''. Zakarpattia online. 22 September 2011</ref> The local [[nomenklatura]] remained in confusion for several days following those events.<ref name=zakrp110922/> The local [[People's Movement of Ukraine]] (Rukh) and other activists were organizing protests across the whole oblast (region).<ref name=zakrp110922/> The local council of Uzhhorod city renamed the Lenin Square to People's Square.<ref name=zakrp110922/> On 30 August 1991 during a protest in Uzhhorod a monument of Lenin was removed.<ref name=zakrp110922/> [[Demolition of monuments to Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine|Monuments of Lenin were also removed in other settlements]]; however, this decision was not universally accepted and faced resistance in some instances.<ref name=zakrp110922/> In [[Tiachiv]], a municipality which also adopted the decision to remove the monument faced resistance from local "supporters of Lenin" of Roma ethnicity who clashed with Rukh activists.<ref name=zakrp110922/> Due to support of the Zakarpattia regional council of the putsch organizers in Moscow ([[GKChP]]), the local "democratic forces" were requesting for the council to announce its dissolution.<ref name=zakrp110922/> Among those "democratic forces" were members of the Uzhhorod city council, deputies of "Democratic platform" in the regional council, [[National Movement of Ukraine]], [[Ukrainian Republican Party]], [[Democratic Party of Ukraine]], Hungarian Cultural Federation in Transcarpathia (KMKSZ), Shevchenko Association of Ukrainian Language and the regional branch of [[Prosvita]].<ref name=zakrp110922/>

Because of the situation in the region, on 26 August 1991 the deputy chairman of the regional council Yuriy Vorobets signed an order to hold an extraordinary session of the council on 30 August, but on 29 August the head of the council Mykhailo Voloshchuk (formerly the 1st secretary of the [[Zakarpattia Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine|Zakarpattia regional communist party committee]]) postponed it by a separate order.<ref name=zakrp110922/> On 28 August 1991 the demand for the extraordinary session was supported by the Zakarpattia Democratic League of Youth that previously was part of the [[Komsomol of Ukraine]] (LKSMU).<ref name=zakrp110922/> To relieve the pressure, Voloshchuk approved a composition of provisional deputy commission for inspection of activity of officials during the putsch that consisted of 17 members mostly of the recently dissolved Communist Party and couple of Rukh members ([[:uk:Тиводар Михайло Петрович|Mykhailo Tyvodar]] and Lyubov Karavanska).<ref name=zakrp110922/> At the same time Voloshchuk was urgently seeking for other managing positions for other party officials who lost their job with recent liquidation of the party.<ref name=zakrp110922/> Concurrently, the regional [[ispolkom]] (executive committee) suddenly registered 208 religious communities and transferred property ownership of 83 church buildings to them.<ref name=zakrp110922/>

The government of Zakarpattia decided to bet on separatist actions.<ref name=zakrp110922/> On 27 August 1991 the Mukachevo city council decided to ask the Zakarpattia regional council to adopt a decision about proclamation of the region as the "Zakarpattia autonomous land of Ukraine".<ref name=zakrp110922/> In two days the Mukachevo Raion council has decided to ask the regional council to petition before the [[Verkhovna Rada]] (Ukrainian parliament) to "grant the Zakarpattia Oblast status of autonomous republic".<ref name=zakrp110922/> The latter decision was supported by the Berehove Raion council, Uzhhorod city council and Svaliava Raion council.<ref name=zakrp110922/> On 1 September 1991 in Mukachevo, the Association of Carpatho-Rusyns organized a picket with anti-Ukrainian slogans and accusations in "forceful Ukrainization of Rusyns".<ref name=zakrp110922/> At the gathering were adopted statement with demand for autonomy and carrying out a regional referendum on the issue.<ref name=zakrp110922/> On 15 September 1991 the same demand were put forward by KMKSZ.<ref name=zakrp110922/> Those Rusyns questioned legality of Zakarpattia unification with the [[Ukrainian SSR]] in 1945.<ref name=zakrp110922/>

[[File:Вид на горы с горы возле озера Синевир.JPG|thumb|Carpathian Ruthenia in 2014]]
By the end of September 1991 in [[Zakarpattia Oblast]] has formed two opposing political camps.<ref name=zakrp110922/> One camp pro-Ukrainian has united around the [[National Movement of Ukraine]] also included URP, DemPU, Party of Greens, Shevchenko Association of Ukrainian Language, regional branches of [[Prosvita]], [[Memorial (society)|Memorial]] and others.<ref name=zakrp110922/> The camp also supported by students of the Uzhhorod State University, several members of the Uzhhorod city council, [[Greek Catholic Eparchy of Mukachevo]], and small faction of deputies in the regional council.<ref name=zakrp110922/> The pro-Ukrainian camp was seeking to reelect the regional council.<ref name=zakrp110922/> The other camp consisted of sympathizers of the regional [[nomenklatura]] officials (and formerly communist) who were supported by Association of Carpatho-Rusyns, later it was joined by [[Party of Hungarians of Ukraine (KMKSZ)|KMKSZ]] (Association of Hungarian Culture of Zakarpattia).<ref name=zakrp110922/> The latter camp also was supported by the Zakarpattia eparchy of Russian Orthodox Church, selected members of the Greek Catholic Eparchy of Mukachevo as well as by the majority of the regional council.<ref name=zakrp110922/> The camp was aimed to prevent reelection of the regional council and obtain autonomous status for the region.<ref name=zakrp110922/>

On 27 September 1991 it was finally announced about the extraordinary session of the regional council.<ref name=zakrp110922/> The leadership of the council planned to end its work the same day, but the session stretched until 31 October 1991 and the center of political life in [[Zakarpattia Oblast]] had relocated to the regional council and the People's Square in front of the council's building.<ref name=zakrp110922/>

In December 1991 Zakarpattia became a part of independent [[Ukraine]]. A majority 92.59% of voters of Zakarpattia oblast [[1991 Ukrainian independence referendum|approved]] the [[Declaration of Independence of Ukraine]].<ref>{{cite web |title=До 15-ї річниці Всеукраїнського референдуму |url=https://archives.gov.ua/Sections/15r-V_Ref/index.php?11 |website=archives.gov.ua |publisher=ЦДАВО України |access-date=11 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191014131250/https://archives.gov.ua/Sections/15r-V_Ref/index.php?11 |archive-date=14 October 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref> On the same day in Zakarpattia Oblast a [[1991 Transcarpathian general regional referendum|regional referendum]] also took place. 78 percent of voters voted for autonomy within Ukraine, which was not granted.<ref>{{cite news |title='Novyny Zakarpattya', the newspaper of the Regional Council of People's Deputies |issue=231}}</ref>

==Demographics==
===Ethnic groups===
{{Hatnote|Percentages may not total 100.0% because of rounding.}}
{| class="wikitable"
 ! Census
 ! [[Ruthenians]], [[Ukrainians]]<br>and [[Rusyns]]
 ! "Czechoslovaks"<br />([[Czechs]] and [[Slovaks in Czechoslovakia (1918–1938)|Slovaks]])
 ! [[Germans in Czechoslovakia (1918–1938)|Germans]]
 ! [[Hungarians]] 
 ! [[History of the Jews in Czechoslovakia|Jews]]
 ! Romanians
 ! Others
 ! Total population
|-
 | 1880
 | style="text-align:center;" | 244,742 (59.8%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 8,611 (2.1%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 31,745 (7.8%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 105,343 (25.8%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | (not a census option)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 16,713 (4.1%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 1,817 (0.4%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 408,971 (100%)
 |-
 | 1921<ref>Slovenský náučný slovník, I. zväzok, Bratislava-Český Těšín, 1932</ref>
 | style="text-align:center;" | 372,884 (63.0%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 19,737 (3.3%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 10,460 (1.8%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 102,144 (17.3%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 80,059 (13.5%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | (with "others")
 | style="text-align:center;" | 6,760 (1.1%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 592,044 (100%)
|-
 | 1930<ref>Nikolaus G. Kozauer, ''Die Karpaten-Ukraine zwischen den beiden Weltkriegen'', Esslingen am Neckar 1979, p. 136</ref>
 | style="text-align:center;" | 450,925 (62.2%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 34,511 (4.8%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 13,804 (1.9%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 115,805 (16.0%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 95,008 (13.1%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 12,777 (1.8%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 2,527 (0.4%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 725,357 (100%)
|-
 | 1959<ref>{{cite web |title=Всесоюзная перепись населения 1959 года. Распределение городского и сельского населения областей республик СССР по полу и национальности |url=http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/resp_nac_59.php?reg=4 |website=www.demoscope.ru |publisher=Демоскоп Weekly – Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей |access-date=11 February 2020}}</ref>
 | style="text-align:center;" | 686,464 (74.6%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | Slovaks<br/>12,289 (1.3%)<br/>Czechs<br/>964 (0.1%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 3,504 (0.4%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 146,247 (15.9%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 12,169 (1.3%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 18,346 (2%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | Russians<br/>29,599 (3.2%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 920,173 (100%)
|-
 | 1970<ref>{{cite web |title=Всесоюзная перепись населения 1970 года. Распределение городского и сельского населения областей республик СССР по полу и национальности |url=http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/resp_nac_70.php?reg=6 |website=www.demoscope.ru |publisher=Демоскоп Weekly – Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей |access-date=11 February 2020}}</ref>
 | style="text-align:center;" | 808,131 (76.5%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | Slovaks<br/>9,573 (0.9%)<br/>Czechs<br/>721 (0.1%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 4,230 (0.4%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 151,949 (14.4%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 10,856 (1%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 23,454 (2.2%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | Russians<br/>35,189 (3.3%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 1,056,799 (100%)
|-
 | 1979<ref>{{cite web |title=Всесоюзная перепись населения 1979 года. Городское и сельское население областей республик СССР (кроме РСФСР) по полу и национальности |url=http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/resp_nac_79.php?reg=6 |website=www.demoscope.ru |publisher=Демоскоп Weekly – Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей |access-date=11 February 2020}}</ref>
 | style="text-align:center;" | 898,606 (77.8%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | Slovaks<br/>8,245 (0.7%)<br/>Czechs<br/>669 (0.1%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 3,746 (0.3%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 158,446 (13.7%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 3,848 (0.3%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 27,155 (2.3%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | Russians<br/>41,713 (3.6%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 1,155,759 (100%)
|-
 | 1989<ref>{{cite web |title=Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года. Распределение городского и сельского населения областей республик СССР по полу и национальности |url=http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/resp_nac_89.php?reg=5 |website=www.demoscope.ru |publisher=Демоскоп Weekly – Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей |access-date=11 February 2020}}</ref>
 | style="text-align:center;" | 976,749 (78.4%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | Slovaks<br/>7,329 (0.6%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 3,478 (0.3%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 155,711 (12.5%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 2,639 (0.2%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 29,485 (2.4%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | Russians<br/>49,456 (4.0%)<br/>[[Romani people|Romani]]<br/>(1.0%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 1,245,618 (100%)
|-
 | 2001<ref name="population 2001">{{cite web|url=http://ukrcensus.gov.ua/results/general/nationality/zakarpatia/|script-title=uk:Про кількість та склад населення Закарпатської області за підсумками Всеукраїнського перепису населення 2001 року|trans-title=About the number and composition of the Transcarpathian oblast according to the results of the National Census of 2001|language=uk|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090430050457/http://ukrcensus.gov.ua/results/general/nationality/zakarpatia/|archive-date=30 April 2009}}</ref>
 | style="text-align:center;" | [[Ukrainians]]<br/>1,010,100 (80.5%)<br/>[[Rusyns]]<br/>10,100 (0.8%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | [[Slovaks]]<br/>5,600 (0.5%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 3,500 (0.3%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | 151,500 (12.1%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | no data
 | style="text-align:center;" | 32,100 (2.6%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | Russians<br/>31,000 (2.5%)<br/>Roma<br/>14,000 (1.1%)<br/>Others <br/>(0.4%)
 | style="text-align:center;" | (100%)
|}

===Religion===
{{unreferenced section|date=March 2022}}
{{Pie chart
|thumb=right
|caption=Religion in Zakarpattia Oblast (2015)<ref name="infolight.org.ua">{{cite web|url=http://infolight.org.ua/content/religiyni-vpodobannya-naselennya-ukrayiny|title=Релігійні вподобання населення України|work=Infolight |date=26 May 2015}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=March 2022}}
|label1=[[Eastern Orthodoxy]]
|value1 = 68
|color1 = DarkOrchid
|label2 = [[Eastern Catholic Churches|Eastern Catholicism]]
|value2 = 19
|color2 = Orchid
|label3 = [[Roman Catholicism]]
|value3 = 7
|color3 = Turquoise
|label4 = Unaffiliated [[Christianity|Christian]]
|value4 = 3
|color4 = DodgerBlue
|label5 = [[Protestantism]]
|value5 = 1
|color5 = Blue
|label6 = [[Irreligion|No religion]]
|value6 = 1
|color6 = Honeydew
|label7 = Undecided
|value7 = 1
|color7 = Grey
}}
According to a 2015 survey, 68% of the population of Zakarpattia Oblast adheres to [[Eastern Orthodoxy]], while 19% are followers of the [[Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church]] and 7% are [[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholics]]. [[Protestantism|Protestants]] and [[nondenominational Christianity|unaffiliated]] generic [[Christians]] make up 1% and 3% of the population respectively. Only one percent of the population does not follow any religion.<ref name="infolight.org.ua"/>{{failed verification|date=March 2022}}
 
The Orthodox community of Zakarpattia is divided as follows:
 
* [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate]] – 42%{{citation needed|date=June 2019}}
* [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)|Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate]] – 33%
* Non-denominational – 25%

===Issue with self-identity: Ukrainians or Rusyns===
{{unreferenced section|date=October 2013}}
{{See also|1991 Transcarpathian general regional referendum}}
[[File:2 Східні гуцули.jpg|thumb|[[Hutsuls]] and their habitations, [[Carpathian Mountains]], c. 1872]]
Carpathian Ruthenia is inhabited mainly by people who self-identify as [[Ukrainians]], many of whom may refer to themselves as [[Rusyns]], ''Rusnak'' or ''Lemko''. [[Places inhabited by Rusyns]] also span adjacent regions of the [[Carpathian Mountains]], including regions of present-day [[Poland]], [[Slovakia]], [[Hungary]], and [[Romania]]. Ruthenian settlements exist in the [[Balkans]] as well.

In the 19th century and the first part of the 20th, the inhabitants of Transcarpathia continued to call themselves "Ruthenians" ("''Rusyny''"). After Soviet annexation the ethnonym "Ukrainian", which had replaced "Ruthenian" in eastern Ukraine at the turn of the century, was also applied to Ruthenians/Rusyns of Transcarpathia. Most present-day inhabitants consider themselves ethnically [[Ukrainians]], although in the most recent census 10,100 people (0.8% of Zakarpattia Oblast's 1.26 million) identified themselves as ethnically [[Rusyns|Rusyn]].

===Hungarians===
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[[File:Zakarpatska2001HungarianLanguage.PNG|thumb|Percentage of Hungarian native speakers in [[Zakarpattia oblast]] according to 2001 census]]
The following data is according to the Ukrainian census of 2001.

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The 1910 Austro-Hungarian census showed 185,433 speakers of the [[Hungarian language]], while the Czechoslovak census of 1921 showed 111,052 ethnic Hungarians and 80,132 ethnic Jews, many of whom were speakers of the Hungarian language. Much of the difference in these censuses reflects differences in methodology and definitions rather than a decline in the region's ethnic Hungarian ([[Magyars|Magyar]]) or Hungarian-speaking population. According to the 1921 census, Hungarians constituted about 17.9% of the region's total population.

The end of [[World War II]] had a significant impact on the ethnic Hungarian population of the area: 10,000 fled before the arrival of [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] forces. Many of the remaining adult men (25,000) were deported to the Soviet Union; about 30% of them died in Soviet [[labor camp]]s. As a result of this development since 1938, the Hungarian and Hungarian-speaking population of Transcarpathia was recorded differently in various censuses and estimations from that time: 1930 census recorded 116,548 ethnic Hungarians, while the contested Hungarian census from 1941 shows as much as 233,840 speakers of Hungarian language in the region. Subsequent estimations are showing 66,000 ethnic Hungarians in 1946 and 139,700 in 1950, while the Soviet census from 1959 recorded 146,247 Hungarians.

{{As of|2004}}, about 170,000 (12–13%) inhabitants of Transcarpathia declare Hungarian as their mother tongue. Homeland Hungarians refer to [[Hungarians in Ukraine]] as ''kárpátaljaiak''.

===Jews===
{{Main|History of the Jews in Carpathian Ruthenia}}

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[[File:Ukrainian Jews from Galicia (left) and Mukachevo (right), 1821.jpg|thumb|180px|Jews from Galicia (left) and Mukachevo (right), 1821]]
Memoirs and historical studies provide much evidence that in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Rusyn-Jewish relations were generally peaceful. In 1939, census records showed that 80,000 Jews lived in the autonomous province of Ruthenia. Jews made up approximately 14% of the prewar population; however, this population was concentrated in the larger towns, especially [[Mukachevo]], where they constituted 43% of the prewar population. Most of them perished during the [[Holocaust]].

===Germans===
{{Main|Carpathian Germans}}

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See [[Carpathian Germans]] for more information (mainly Germans from [[Bohemia]], [[Moravia]] and the territories from present-day central and eastern Germany) about their settlement in the 16th to 18th centuries.

===Czechs===
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[[Czechs]] in Carpathian Ruthenia are ethnoculturally distinct from other [[West Slavs|West Slavic]] groups like the Slovaks, as they originated from Czech-speaking groups from Bohemia and Moravia instead of Slovakia.

===Romani===
There are approximately 25,000 ethnic [[Romani people in Ukraine|Romani]] in present-day Transcarpathia. Some estimates point to a number as high as 50,000 but a true count is hard to obtain as many Roma cannot afford ID documents for themselves and their children.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Nikolay |first=Polischuk |date=May 12, 2016 |title=Stay Where There Are Songs: How Thousands of Roma People Survive in Transcarpathia |work=Bird in Flight |url=https://birdinflight.com/reportage/20160512-roma-people-transcarpathia.html |access-date=June 1, 2022}}</ref> Additionally, many Romani will claim to be Hungarian or Romanian when interviewed by Ukrainian authorities.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

They are by far the poorest and least-represented ethnic group in the region and face intense prejudice. The years since the [[Dissolution of the Soviet Union|fall of the Soviet Union]] have not been kind to the Romani of the region, as they have been particularly hard hit by the economic problems faced by peoples all over the former USSR. Some Romani in western Ukraine live in major cities such as Uzhhorod and Mukachevo, but most live in ghettos on the outskirts of cities. These ghettos are known as "taberi" and can house up to 300 families. These encampments tend to be fairly primitive with no running water or electricity.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.romaniyag.uz.ua/en/ |title=Romani Yag. Roma Public News. Interukrainian Biweekly |access-date=2008-12-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070314022109/http://romaniyag.uz.ua/en/ |archive-date=2007-03-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Romanians===
[[File:Romanians of Zakarpattya Oblast dancing.jpg|thumb|Stylized traditional folk costume of Romanians of Zakarpattia]]
Today some 30,000 [[Romanians in Ukraine|Romanians]] live in this region, mostly in northern Maramureș, around the southern towns of Rahău/[[Rakhiv]] and Teceu Mare/Tiachiv and close to the [[Romania–Ukraine border|border with Romania]]. However, there also are Romanians in Carpathian Ruthenia living outside Maramureș, mostly in the village of [[Poroshkovo]]. They are usually called {{lang|ro|volohi}} in Romanian and live closer to Poland and Slovakia than Romania.<ref>{{cite news |last=Peiu |first=Petrișor |author-link=Petrișor Peiu |date=2 February 2020 |title=Și ei sunt români. Și ei sunt ai noștri. Și ei au nevoie de România |url=https://ziare.com/diaspora/romani-strainatate/si-ei-sunt-romani-si-ei-sunt-ai-nostri-si-ei-au-nevoie-de-romania-1595859 |access-date=1 May 2023 |newspaper=Ziare.com |language=ro}}</ref>

===Greeks===
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There are a few Greeks in Carpathian Ruthenia. They are also known as Carpatho-Greeks and Greek-Carpathians.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

==Transcarpathian Influence on Ruritania==
For 19th-century west-European readers, Ruthenia was an inspiration for "[[Ruritania]]", a rustic province lost in forested mountains.{{Citation needed|date=February 2007}} Conceived as a Central European kingdom, Ruritania was the setting for several of [[Anthony Hope]]'s novels, including ''[[The Prisoner of Zenda]]'' (1894).{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

A century later [[Vesna Goldsworthy]], in ''Inventing Ruritania: the Imperialism of the Imagination'' (1998), theorizes on ideas underpinning western views of Europe's "Wild East", especially Ruthenia and some Slavic Balkan areas. She sees these ideas as highly applicable to Transcarpathia and describes "an innocent process: a cultural great power seizes and exploits the resources of an area, while imposing new frontiers on its mind-map and creating ideas which, reflected back, have the ability to reshape reality."{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

==See also==
* [[Black Ruthenia]]
* [[Red Ruthenia]]
* [[White Ruthenia]]
* [[Military history of Carpathian Ruthenia during World War II]]
* [[Ruthenians and Ukrainians in Czechoslovakia (1918–1938)]]
* [[Eparchy of Mukačevo and Prešov]]
* [[Alexander Dukhnovych]]
* [[Avgustyn Voloshyn]]
* [[Ukrainian dialects]]
* [[Kárpátalja football team]]
* [[Magyaron]]

==Notes==
{{Notelist}}

==References==
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==Sources==
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==External links==
* [http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/ The Carpatho-Rusyn knowledge base]
* [http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/history.htm Paul R. Magocsi, Carpatho-Rusyns, brochure published by The Carpatho-Rusyn Research Center, 1995]
* [http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkPath=pages\C\A\Carpatho6Ukraine.htm Carpatho-Ukraine] (Encyclopedia of Ukraine)
* [http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?AddButton=pages\D\I\DietofCarpatho6Ukraine.htm Diet of Carpatho-Ukraine] (Encyclopedia of Ukraine)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070206055441/http://ukrstor.com/karpaty.html Trans-Carpathia in UkrStor.com] (the web library of historical documents & publicism about Malorussia/Ukraine)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060526073045/http://www.hungarian-history.hu/lib/hmcb/Tab11.htm Ethnic structure of the population on the present territory of Transcarpathia (1880–1989)]
* {{in lang|ru|uk}} Mykola Vehesh, ''The greatness and the tragedy of Carpathian Ukraine'', ''[[Zerkalo Nedeli]]'', 10(485), 13–19 March 2004 [https://web.archive.org/web/20051130142316/http://www.zerkalo-nedeli.com/nn/show/485/45817/ in Russian] and [https://zn.ua/ukr/SOCIUM/velich_i_tragediya_karpatskoyi_ukrayini.html in Ukrainian]
* [http://www.zakarpattia.ru Zakarpattia.ru] {{in lang|uk}}
* {{in lang|hu}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20050901024644/http://www.karpatinfo.org.ua/ Kárpátinfo]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070319052613/http://karpaty.prygl.net/ukrajina.php Carpathian Ruthenia] – photographs and information
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110126235948/http://hungarian-history.hu/lib/ruth/ruth00.htm "Ruthenia – Spearhead Toward the West", by Senator Charles J. Hokky, Former Member of the Czechoslovakian Parliament]

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