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 (Gente Ruthenus, natione Polonus):
- 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 Old Ruthenian)
- Ruthenian language, East Slavic language of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, 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 Ruthenian or 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
See also
- Ruthenia (disambiguation)
- Ruthenian Americans (disambiguation)
- Rusyn (disambiguation)