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"Ruthenia" is today seemingly an anachronism for an area roughly comprising of present-day Ukraine and Belarus. Why did it fall out of fashion, and was it to do with the rise of Ukrainian and Belarusian identity?

by /u/TheLesserCornholio in /r/AskHistorians

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