Ruthenian in a sentence

Count Roman Aleksandr Maria Szeptycki was born in 1865 in a village near L’viv in then-Austrian Galicia to a family descended from Ruthenian and Polish nobility.

After this, Ruthenian schlahta refrained from its plans to have a Moscow tsar the king of the Commonwealth, its own Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki became the king later.

Ancestry render Dostoyevsky's parents were part of a multi-ethnic and multi-denominational Ruthenian Litvin noble family from the Pinsk region, with roots dating to the 16th century.

A Ruthenian quarter populated by Lithuania's Orthodox subjects, and containing their church, existed in Vilnius from the 14th century.

Because of expansion of Lithuanian duchy into lands of Ruthenia in the mid of 14th century a new term appeared to denominate nobility bajorai—from Ruthenian (modern Ukrainian and Belarusian languages) бояре.

Documents soon took on many Polish characteristics superimposed on Ruthenian phonetics.

For example, Rusyn and Ukrainian were both counted as " Ruthenian " in the census, and Rhaeto-Romance languages were counted as "Italian".

For their military and administrative services, Lithuanian boyars were compensated by exemptions from public contributions, payments, and Ruthenian land grants.

I will liberate out of the Polish woe all of the Ruthenian people!

Kęstutis requested King Casimir of Poland to mediate with the pope in hopes of converting Lithuania to Christianity, but the result was negative, and Poland took from Lithuania in 1349 the Halych area and some Ruthenian lands further north.

Later, Ruthenian became the main language of documentation and writing.

Many noble Ruthenian families intermarried with Lithuanian ones.

Of the passing Ruthenian, Polish and German merchants (many from Riga), many settled in Vilnius and some built masonry residencies.

Of the Ruthenian provinces, Volhynia was most closely integrated with Lithuania proper.

Owing to the prevalence of East Slavs and the Eastern Orthodox faith among the population in eastern and southern regions of the state, the Ruthenian language was a widely used colloquial language.

Seeking freedom to pursue his internal and Ruthenian goals, Vytautas had to grant the Teutonic Order a large portion of Samogitia in the Treaty of Salynas of 1398.

The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation by Russia.

The exact interpretation of this passage is uncertain, because the Ruthenian word "Lachy" meant both the Poles in general and the southeastern Lendians tribe.

The Ruthenian duke Daniel of Galicia sensed an occasion to recover Black Ruthenia and in 1249–50 organized a powerful anti-Mindaugas (and "anti-pagan") coalition that included Mindaugas' rivals, Yotvingians, Samogitians and the Livonian Teutonic Knights.

The Ruthenian territories acquired were vastly larger, more densely populated and more highly developed in terms of church organization and literacy than the territories of core Lithuania.