Biała ( uk, Біла ) is a district of
Rzeszów,
Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern
Poland.
It merged with Rzeszów on 1 January 2009.
The former village had a population of 1,300.
History
As a result of the first of
Partitions of Poland
The Partitions of Poland were three partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that took place toward the end of the 18th century and ended the existence of the state, resulting in the elimination of sovereign Poland and Lithuania for 12 ...
(Treaty of St-Petersburg dated 5 July 1772, the Galicia area was attributed to the Habsburg Monarchy. BIALA was one of the 79 ''Bezirkshauptmannschaft'' (powiat?)
[Die postalischen Abstempelungen auf den österreichischen Postwertzeichen-Ausgaben 1867, 1883 und 1890, Wilhelm KLEIN, 1967] in Austrian Galicia.
For more details, see the article
Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria.
References
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Rzeszów