 | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 16,583 (2011) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Serbia | 14,246 (2011) |
 Croatia | 2,337 (2011) |
| Languages | |
| Pannonian Rusyn | |
| Religion | |
| Eastern Catholicism Eastern Orthodoxy | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Slovaks, other East Slavs Especially Ukrainians, Boykos, Hutsuls, Lemkos, and other Rusyns | |
Pannonian Rusyns (Rusyn: Русини, romanized: Rusynŷ), also known as Pannonian Rusnaks (Rusyn: Руснаци, romanized: Rusnat͡sŷ), and formerly known as Yugoslav Rusyns (during the existence of former Yugoslavia), are ethnic Rusyns from the southern regions of the Pannonian Plain (hence, Pannonian Rusyns). Their communities are located mainly in Vojvodina, Serbia, and Slavonia, Croatia. In both of those countries, they are officially recognized as a national minority, and have several minority institutions and organizations.[1][2]
In some non-Slavic languages, they are sometimes also referred to by certain archaic exonyms, such as Pannonian Ruthenes or Pannonian Ruthenians,[3] but those terms are not used in the native Rusyn language.[4] Such terms are also imprecise, since Ruthenian and related exonyms have several broader meanings, both in terms of their historical uses and ethnic scopes, that are encompassing various East Slavic groups.[5][6]
Geographical Pannonian adjective is used as a neutral term of convenience, since the previous geographical ethnonym (Yugoslav Rusyns) became significantly reduced in scope after the breakup of major Yugoslavia (1991–1992),[7] and also obsolete when the reduced Federal Republic of Yugoslavia changed its name to Serbia and Montenegro (2003). In order to avoid confusion, the term Pannonian Rusyns is used in modern English terminology as a descriptive regional ethnonym for Rusyn communities in all of those regions,[8] similar to the way the term North American Rusyns is used to refer to the Rusyn diasporas in the United States and Canada.
Pannonian Rusyns are descendants of 18th-century migrant communities, that came from northeastern (Carpathian) regions,[9] still inhabited today by other groups of (Carpathian) Rusyns, who live in southwestern Ukraine, northeastern Slovakia, southeastern Poland, northern Romania, and northeastern Hungary.[10]
- ^ National Council of the Rusyn National Minority (Serbia)
- ^ Savez Rusina Republike Hrvatske
- ^ Sakač 2019, p. 1-18.
- ^ Рамач, Фејса & Међеши 1997, p. 447-448.
- ^ Magocsi 2011, p. 177.
- ^ Magocsi 2015, p. 2-5.
- ^ Fejsa 1998, p. 56-67.
- ^ Medješi 1993, p. 143.
- ^ Jankulov 1961.
- ^ Magocsi 2015.