Editing Ruthenia (section)

==Early modern period==
{{See also|Ruthenian language#Development}}
During the early modern period, the term ''Ruthenia'' started to be mostly associated with the [[Ruthenian Voivodeship|Ruthenian lands of the Polish Crown]] and the [[Cossack Hetmanate]]. [[Bohdan Khmelnytsky]] declared himself the ruler of ''the Ruthenian state'' to the Polish representative [[Adam Kysil]] in February 1649.<ref>{{cite web|title=Khmelnychyna|url=http://izbornyk.org.ua/encycl/euii284.htm|website=Izbornyk - History of Ukraine IX-XVIII centuries. Sources and Interpretations|publisher=Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies.|access-date=25 January 2015|language=uk}}</ref>{{failed verification|reason=Source is in Ukrainian, where the native term is used instead|date=July 2023}}

The [[Grand Principality of Rus' (1658)|Grand Principality of Ruthenia]] was the project name of the Cossack Hetmanate integrated into the [[Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth]].{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}