Borysławka is a
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
in the administrative district of
Gmina Fredropol
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Gmina Fredropol is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Przemyśl County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland, on the border with Ukraine. Its seat is the village of Fredropol, which lies approximately south of Pr ...
, within
Przemyśl County,
Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...
, close to the border with
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
.
It lies approximately south-west of
Fredropol
Fredropol is a village in Przemyśl County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Fredropol. It lies approximately south of Prze ...
, south-west of
Przemyśl
Przemyśl (; yi, פשעמישל, Pshemishl; uk, Перемишль, Peremyshl; german: Premissel) is a city in southeastern Poland with 58,721 inhabitants, as of December 2021. In 1999, it became part of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship; it was pr ...
, and south-east of the regional capital
Rzeszów.
Geography
The
Borysławka stream flows into the
Wiar
Wiar or Vihor ( uk, Вігор) is a left tributary of the San (river), San River in southeastern Poland and Ukraine. It flows for 70.4 kilometres, and joins the San near Przemyśl.
Tributaries
;Left
* Zalissia River
;Right
* Bibiska
* Mala Vyr ...
.
History
The first mention of Borysławka dates back to 1494, when Jan Ryboticki received the village.
The Ukrainian population was deported and the village was burned in October 1945 as part of
Operation Vistula by the
Polish Home Army.
Religion
*
Church of Saint John the Baptist (1750; UGCC; wooden; destroyed in the 1940s)
[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.]
People from Borysławka
*
Pavlo Vasylyk
Pavlo Vasylyk ( uk, Павло Василик; 8 August 1926 – 12 December 2004) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was clandestine bishop from 1974 to 1991, an auxiliary bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk from ...
(1926—2004), Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch
References
Villages in Przemyśl County
Borysławka
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