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Rusyn Americans （also known as Carpatho-Rusyn Americans） are citizens of the United States of America, with ancestors who were Rusyns, from Carpathian Ruthenia, or neighboring areas of Central Europe.
However, some Rusyn Americans, also or instead identify as Ukrainian Americans, Russian Americans, or even Slovak Americans.
They are sometimes also referred to as Carpatho-Ruthenian Americans, but terms based on Ruthenian designations are often viewed as imprecise, since they have several wider meanings,
related to their diverse historical, religious and ethnic uses and scopes, that were encompassing various East Slavic groups.
Since the Revolutions of 1989, there has been a revival in Rusyn nationalism and self-identification in both Carpathian Ruthenia and among the Rusyn diaspora in other parts of Europe and North America.
Rusyns began immigrating to the United States in the late 1870s and in the 1880s.
Upon arrival in North America, the vast majority of Rusyns identified with the larger state that they had left.
It is, therefore, impossible to know their exact number.
It is estimated that between the 1880s and 1914 some 225,000 Carpatho-Rusyn immigrants came to northeastern United States.
Based on immigration statistics and membership records in religious and secular organizations, it is reasonable to assume that there are about 620,000 Americans who have at least one ancestor of Rusyn background.
At the time of the first and largest wave of immigration （1880s to 1914）, the Rusyn homeland was located entirely within the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
In both parts of Austria-Hungary, the economic situation for Rusyns was the same.
Their approximately 1,000 villages were all located in hilly or mountainous terrain from which the inhabitants eked out a subsistence-level existence bas...