Pratulin is a village in the administrative district of
Gmina Rokitno
Gmina Rokitno is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Biała Podlaska County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland on the border with Belarus. Its seat is the village of Rokitno which lies approximately north-east of Biała Podlaska a ...
, within
Biała Podlaska County Biała (the feminine form of Polish ''biały'' 'white') may refer to:
Cities and towns in Poland Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)
*Biała, Gmina Trzcianka
* Biała, Gmina Wieleń
* Biała, Kalisz County
* Biała, Konin County
Łód ...
,
Lublin Voivodeship, in 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
Belarus
Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...
.
On 24 January 1874 the
Imperial Russian Army
The Imperial Russian Army (russian: Ру́сская импера́торская а́рмия, tr. ) was the armed land force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian Ar ...
killed a group of 13
Greek Catholics in the village. They later became known as the
Pratulin Martyrs.
During "
Operation Barbarossa" the forest nearby was a staging point for the German 17th Panzer Division. At 3:30am on 22 June 1941 German Panzer and motorized troops decamped from this area, crossing the
Bug River and attacking the Soviet Union.
References
Villages in Biała Podlaska County
Brest Litovsk Voivodeship
Kholm Governorate
Lublin Voivodeship (1919–1939)
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