 In the 1880s through the first decade of the 20th century, the popularity of the ethnonym "Ukrainian" spread, and the term "Ukraine" became a substitute for "Malaya Rus"' among the Ukrainian population of the empire.In the course of time, the term "Rus" became restricted to western parts of present-day Ukraine (Galicia/Halych, Carpathian Ruthenia), an area where Ukrainian nationalism, ardently supported by Austrian authorities, competed with Galician Russophilia.By the early 20th century, the term "Ukraine" had mostly replaced "Malorussia" in those lands, and by the mid-1920s in the Ukrainian diaspora in North America as well.