Editing Ruthenia (section)

== Etymology ==
{{Further|Names of Rus', Russia and Ruthenia}}
The word ''Ruthenia'' originated as a [[Latin]] designation of the region its people called [[Rus (name)|''Rus''']]. During the Middle Ages, writers in English and other Western European languages applied the term to lands inhabited by [[Eastern Slavs]].<ref>{{cite book|title= Oxford English Dictionary |date= 2011 |publisher= Oxford University Press |quote = Rvcia hatte Rutenia and is a prouynce of Messia (J. Trevisa, 1398).}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last1 = Armstrong
 | first1 = John Alexander
 | author-link1 = John Alexander Armstrong
 | year = 1982
 | title = Nations Before Nationalism
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=F3RGDgAAQBAJ
 | publisher = University of North Carolina Press
 | publication-date = 2017
 | page = 228
 | isbn = 9781469620725
 | access-date = 7 July 2019
 | quote = From the linguistic standpoint, the results of this catastrophe [the Mongol invasion] somewhat resemble the collapse of the Roman empire for the latin-speaking peoples. Like the great 'Romania' of the Western Middle Ages, there was a great 'Ruthenia' in which common linguistic origin and some measure of mutual comprehensibility was assumed.
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''Rusia'' or ''Ruthenia'' appears in the 1520 Latin treatise ''Mores, leges et ritus omnium gentium, per Ioannem Boëmum, Aubanum, Teutonicum ex multis clarissimis rerum scriptoribus collecti'' by [[Johann Boemus]]. In the chapter ''De Rusia sive Ruthenia, et recentibus Rusianorum moribus'' ("About Rus', or Ruthenia, and modern customs of the Rus'"), Boemus tells of a country extending from the [[Baltic Sea]] to the [[Caspian Sea]] and from the [[Don River (Russia)|Don River]] to the northern ocean. It is a source of [[beeswax]], its [[forest]]s harbor many animals with valuable [[fur]], and the capital city [[Moscow]] (''Moscovia''), named after the [[Moskva River]] (''Moscum amnem''), is 14 miles in circumference.<ref>{{cite book |last1= Мыльников |first1= Александр |title= Картина славянского мира: взгляд из Восточной Европы: Представления об этнической номинации и этничности XVI-начала XVIII века |date= 1999 |publisher= Петербургское востоковедение |location= Saint Petersburg | isbn= 5-85803-117-X |pages= 129–130}}</ref><ref>
{{cite journal
 |last1= Сынкова |first1= Ірына
 |title= Ёган Баэмус і яго кніга "Норавы, законы і звычаі ўсіх народаў"
 |journal= Беларускі Гістарычны Агляд |date= 2007
 |volume= 14 |issue= 1–2
 |url= http://www.belhistory.eu/iryna-synkova-yogan-baemus-i-yago-kniga-%E2%80%9Enoravy-zakony-i-zvychai-%D1%9Esix-naroda%D1%9E%E2%80%9C/
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Danish diplomat [[Jacob Ulfeldt (1535–1593)|Jacob Ulfeldt]], who traveled to [[Muscovy (Grand Duchy)|Muscovy]] in 1578 to meet with [[Tsar Ivan IV]], titled his posthumously (1608) published memoir ''Hodoeporicon Ruthenicum''<ref>
{{cite book
 | last1 = Ulfeldt
 | first1 = Jacob
 | author-link1 = Jacob Ulfeldt (1535–1593)
 | title = Hodoeporicon Ruthenicum, in quo de Moscovitarum Regione, Moribus, Religione, gubernatione, & Aula Imperatoria quo potuit compendio & eleganter exequitur [...]
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=F_JPAAAAcAAJ
 | language = la
 | edition = 1
 | location = Frankfurt
 | date = 1608
 | access-date = 7 July 2019
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("Voyage to Ruthenia").<ref>
{{cite book
 | last1 = Kasinec
 | first1 = Edward
 | last2 = Davis
 | first2 = Robert H.
 | chapter = The Imagery of Early Anglo-Russian Relations
 | editor1-last = Dmitrieva
 | editor1-first = Ol'ga
 | editor2-last = Abramova
 | editor2-first = Natalya
 | title = Britannia & Muscovy: English Silver at the Court of the Tsars
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=miIc_u3JuKwC
 | publisher = Yale University Press
 | date = 2006
 | page = 261
 | isbn = 9780300116786
 | access-date = 7 July 2019
 | quote = [...] [Jacob Ulfeldt's] ''Hodoeporicon Ruthenicum'' ['Ruthenian Journey'] (Frankfurt, 1608 [...]) [...].
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