Where on Earth is Ruthenia?

For one hundred-fifty years, the kingdom of Ruthenia held its own against encroachments from neighbors on all sides, including the Mongols who destroyed Kyiv-Rus in 1240. After putting up a feisty resistance to the Golden Horde in the thirteenth century, Danylo Romanovych Halitskiy was crowned King of Ruthenia by the Pope in Rome in 1253.…