Unstitch the centuries, though, and this was a single entity: Ruthenia, no relation to the fictional kingdom of Ruritania. open image in gallery The culture of the community, known as the Rusyn ...

Kidnapped from her Slavic homeland and sold into sex slavery as a child, Hürrem Sultan, also known as Roxelana, eventually ...

In 1919, the country became part of Czechoslovakia. In 1938, when Hungary took a strip along the Southern border, the rest of the country became a self-governing part of Czechoslovakia.

01:24 Bohemia to Czechia 03:43 Learning Languages 05:44 Dacia to Romania 07:33 Livonia to Latvia 09:08 Caledonia to Scotland 09:52 Ruthenia to Ukraine? 11:13 Castille to Spain 12:22 Illyria to ...

He pays tribute to the great Russian composers of the 20th Century: Shostakovich, Scriabin, Prokofiev, Stravinsky and Rachmaninoff (the title "Ruthenia" is a Latin name for the Russian border ...