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Hutsul Republic

1918 CE – 1919 CE · capital Yasinia

A short-lived republic of Hutsul highlanders in the Carpathians, which declared for union with Ukraine after the fall of Austria-Hungary.

Origins

In November 1918, as Hungarian rule over Transcarpathia collapsed, a council of Hutsuls in the mountain village of Yasinia took power locally. In January 1919 it proclaimed its wish to join the Ukrainian People's Republic, with Stepan Klochurak leading the local government.

Rule and society

The republic was a small highland territory of shepherds, woodcutters and rafters, run by an elected council and defended by a few hundred armed volunteers. It drove off Hungarian troops and tried to keep in contact with the West Ukrainian People's Republic across the mountains, but it had little means of survival on its own.

Decline and legacy

In June 1919 Romanian troops occupied Yasinia and ended the republic. The Treaty of Saint-Germain then assigned Transcarpathia to Czechoslovakia, and the region later formed Carpatho-Ukraine. The Hutsul Republic is remembered as an early expression of Ukrainian national feeling in Transcarpathia.

Few sources survive for this state; details are uncertain.

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APA
The Epoch Institute. (2026). Hutsul Republic. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/hutsul-republic
MLA
“Hutsul Republic.” The Epoch Institute States Register, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/hutsul-republic. Accessed .
Chicago
The Epoch Institute. “Hutsul Republic.” The Epoch Institute States Register. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/hutsul-republic.
Harvard
The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Hutsul Republic’, The Epoch Institute States Register. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/hutsul-republic (Accessed: ).

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