Borysławka [bɔrɨˈswafka] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Fredropol, within Przemyśl County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine.[1] It lies approximately 11 kilometres (7 mi) south-west of Fredropol, 18 km (11 mi) south-west of Przemyśl, and 63 km (39 mi) south-east of the regional capital Rzeszów.
Borysławka | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Borysławka | |
| Coordinates: 49°39′N 22°38′E / 49.650°N 22.633°E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Subcarpathian |
| County | Przemyśl |
| Gmina | Fredropol |
Geography
editThe Borysławka stream flows into the Wiar.[2]
History
editThe first mention of Borysławka dates back to 1494, when Jan Ryboticki received the village.[3]
The Ukrainian population was deported and the village was burned in October 1945 as part of Operation Vistula by the Polish Home Army.
Religion
edit- Church of Saint John the Baptist (1750; UGCC; wooden; destroyed in the 1940s)[4]
People from Borysławka
edit- Pavlo Vasylyk (1926—2004), Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch
References
edit- ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
- ^ "Borysławka, 1". Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (in Polish). 1. Warszawa: Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego. 1880. p. 334.
- ^ Ludwik Wyrostek, Ród Dragów-Sasów na Węgrzech i Rusi Halickiej, Kraków 1932, s. 37.
- ^ Posada Rubotycka, Блажейовський Д. Історичний шематизм Перемиської єпархії з включенням Апостольської Адміністратури Лемківщини (1828—1939), Львів : Каменяр, 1995, s. 388, ISBN 5-7745-0672-Х.
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