The Hutsuls are an Ukrainian ethnic group spanning parts of western Ukraine and Romania. They are generally considered to be descendants of the White Croats, a Slavic tribe that inhabited the area.
White Croats or simply known as Croats, were a group of Early Slavic tribes who lived among other West and East Slavic tribes in the area of modern-day Lesser Poland, Galicia (north of Carpathian Mountains), Western Ukraine and Northeastern Bohemia.
They were documented primarily by foreign medieval authors and managed to preserve their ethnic name until the early 20th century, primarily in Lesser Poland.
It is also considered that they were assimilated into Czech, Polish and Ukrainian ethnos, and are one of the predecessors of the Rusyn people.
In the 7th century, some White Croats migrated from their homeland, Great White Croatia, to the territory of modern-day Croatia in Southeast Europe along the Adriatic sea, forming the ancestors of the South Slavic ethnic group of Croats.
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