Introduction

Abstract

Abstract. Transcarpathia (in Ukrainian: Закарпатська область, Zakarpattia Oblast) is the westernmost region of Ukraine. It borders with four EU member-states to the west and south (Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania), while to the north and east, its neighbors are the Ukrainian counties of Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk. The territory with a current population of nearly 1.2 million people is bordered by the Carpathian Mountains to the north-east, and the river Tisza to the south. The region has varying names, according to whether we see it from the west/south (Subcarpathia), or from the north/east (Transcarpathia; this is the official name of the region). In today’s Transcarpathia, there are numerous ethnicities and languages which have been traditionally co-existing.