Pannonian Rusyns
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| c. 12,800 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Serbia | 11,483 (2022) |
| Croatia | 1,343 (2021) |
| Languages | |
| Slovak (Pannonian Rusyn) | |
| Religion | |
| Eastern Catholicism Eastern Orthodoxy | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Slovaks, Ukrainians, other East Slavs | |
Pannonian Rusyns (Pannonian Rusyn: Русини, romanized: Rusynŷ), also known as Pannonian Rusnaks (Pannonian Rusyn: Руснаци, romanized: Rusnatsŷ), are ethnic Rusyns from the southern regions of the Pannonian Plain (hence, Pannonian Rusyns). Their communities are located mainly in Vojvodina, Serbia, and Slavonia, Croatia. In both of those countries, they are officially recognized as an ethnic minority.
Pannonian Rusyns are descendants of 18th-century migrant communities, that came from northeastern (Carpathian) regions, still inhabited today by other groups of (Carpathian) Rusyns, who live in southwestern Ukraine, northeastern Slovakia, southeastern Poland, northern Romania, and northeastern Hungary.