# CIV variant concept: Ruthenians for Rus

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CIV variant concept: Ruthenians for Rus.

The Latin term Rutheni, an exonym, was used in medieval sources to describe all Eastern Slavic population in the east of Grand Duchy of Poand-Lithuania, an area encompassing territories of modern Belarus and Ukraine from the 15th up to the 18th centuries.

During the medieval period, the Ruthenian was most frequently applied to the people from former Kievan Rus.

> **[Ruthenians](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruthenians)**
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> Ruthenian and Ruthene are exonyms of Latin origin, formerly used in Eastern and Central Europe as common ethnonyms for East Slavs, particularly during the late medieval and early modern periods. The Latin term Rutheni was used in medieval sources to describe all Eastern Slavs of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, as an exonym for people of the former Kievan Rus', thus including ancestors of the modern Belarusians, Rusyns and Ukrainians. The use of Ruthenian and related exonyms continued through In ...

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