Гуцули | |
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Total population | |
>26,400 | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Ukraine | 23,900 (2001)[1] |
Romania | At least 2,500[2] |
Languages | |
Hutsul dialect of the Rusyn language, Ukrainian[3] | |
Religion | |
Predominantly Ukrainian Greek Catholic or Eastern Orthodox | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Boykos, Lemkos, Rusyns, Pokutians |
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The Hutsuls (Hutsul/Ukrainian: Гуцули, romanized: Hutsuly; Polish: Huculi, Hucułowie; Romanian: huțuli) are an East Slavic ethnic group spanning parts of western Ukraine and Romania (i.e. parts of Bukovina and Maramureș).
In Ukraine, they have often been officially and administratively designated a subgroup of Ukrainians,[4] and, among the Ukrainian scholars, are largely regarded as constituting a broader Ukrainian ethnic group.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11] However, in eyes of some scholars and of some Hutsuls, they are either their own nation, or a part of the Rusyn nation, alongside the closely related ethnic groups of Boykos and Lemkos.[12]
For instance, the cross-reference "Carpatho-Rus" see "Carpatho-Rusyn" should include see also references to Ukrainians and Ukrainian Hutsuls because they constitute a subgroup of Ukrainians and speak Hutsul Ukrainian dialects.
in which he praised the Hutsuls, a little-known subgroup of the Ukrainian people
They were by no means a homogeneous group, for they included members of many ethnographic Ukrainian subgroups, such as Hutsuls from the Carpathian highlands
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An ethnographic group of Ukrainian pastoral highlanders inhabiting the Hutsul region in the Carpathian Mountains
The Hutsuls are Ukrainian highlanders who live on the Northern slopes of the Carpathians over the Prut river