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The Lemko dialect is sometimes considered a variety of the Ukrainian language, the Rusyn language, or separate from both. On the above map of Ukrainian dialects part of the region where Lemko was spoken is westernmost area in grey dotted with red diamonds, but the actual area extends far to the west
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The landscape is typical of medium-height-mountain terrain, with ridges reaching 1,000 m (3,300 ft) and sometimes 1,300 m (4,300 ft). Only small parts of the southern
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region have a low-mountain landscape. Even so, the region still occupies some of the lowest elevations in the
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in 1946, and only a small part of them remains there today, the rest being scattered across the
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With Their Backs to the Mountains: A History of Carpathian Rus' and Carpatho-Rusyns
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Map of Lemkovyna according to World federation of Ukrainian Lemko organizations
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Most Lemkos in Poland were deported from their ancestral region as part of
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region. Some even go so far as to consider it to extend south into the
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Ethnographic region in Europe traditionally inhabited by the Lemkos
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Levinson, David (1994). Friedrich, Paul; Levinson, David (eds.).
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Encyclopedia of World Cultures: Russia and Eurasia, China
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Previously a frontier area under the nominal control of
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and also to the south across the border with Slovakia.
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Rusyn
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