 An old Latin version of the name Rus' was Ruthenia, mostly applied to the western and southern regions of Rus' that were adjacent to Catholic Europe.The current name of the country, Россия ("Rossija"), comes from the Byzantine Greek designation of the Rus', Ρωσσία "Rossía"—spelled Ρωσία ("Rosía" ) in Modern Greek.The standard way to refer to citizens of Russia is "Russians" in English and "rossiyane" () in Russian.