Hutsuls
The Hutsuls (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).
Гуцули | |
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Hutsul family, 1925–1939 | |
| Total population | |
| >26,400 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Ukraine | 23,900 (2001) |
| Romania | At least 2,500 |
| Languages | |
| Ukrainian | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Ukrainian Greek Catholic or Eastern Orthodox | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Boykos, Lemkos, Rusyns, Pokutians | |
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They have often been officially and administratively designated a subgroup of Ukrainians, and are largely regarded as constituting a broader Ukrainian ethnic group.
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