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 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.