transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌzä-kər-ˈpät-skə ]
geographical name
or formerly Car·pa·thi·an Ru·the·nia kär-ˈpā-thē-ən-rü-ˈthē-nyə, -nē-ə ; or Ruthenia
region W Ukraine S of the Carpathian Mountains; part of Hungary before 1918 & 1939-45; a province of Czechoslovakia 1918-38 capital Uzhgorod area 4942 square miles (12,800 square kilometers ), population 1,265,900