Kuryłówka 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 ...

Leżajsk County __NOTOC__ Leżajsk County ( pl, powiat leżajski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, south-eastern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local gove ...

Subcarpathian Voivodeship Subcarpathian Voivodeship or Subcarpathia Province (in pl, Województwo podkarpackie ) is a voivodeship, or province, in the southeastern corner of Poland. Its administrative capital and largest city is Rzeszów. Along with the Marshall, it i ...

, in south-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Kuryłówka. It lies on the navigable San River, approximately north-east of

Leżajsk Leżajsk (; yi, ליזשענסק-Lizhensk; uk, Лежа́йськ, Lezháysʹk), officially the Free Royal City of Leżajsk ( pl, Wolne Królewskie Miasto Leżajsk), is a town in southeastern Poland with 13,871 inhabitants. It has been situated ...

and north-east of the regional capital

Rzeszów Rzeszów ( , ; la, Resovia; yi, ריישא ''Raisha'')) is the largest city in southeastern Poland. It is located on both sides of the Wisłok River in the heartland of the Sandomierz Basin. Rzeszów has been the capital of the Subcarpathian ...

. The village is located in the historical region Galicia. The village has a population of 1,711.http://www.biuletyn.net/nt-bin/_private/kurylowka/4175.pdf It was first mentioned in 1515, although the settlement in this place already existed in

Roman times In modern historiography, ancient Rome refers to Roman civilisation from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. It encompasses the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC ...

. In 1978, Aleksandra Gruszczyńska from the District Museum in

conducted archaeological research during which the remains of a settlement from the Roman period were discovered. June 29, 1944 invasion of Kalmyks. It was the site of anti-communist resistance after World War II (see: Battle of Kurylowka). In 2007 it was damaged by a

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Transportation

Voivodeship road 877 passes through Kuryłówka.

Notable people

* Tomasz Czapla * Janusz Dolny * Roman Szczęsny * Antoni Wyspiański

References

Villages in Leżajsk County {{Leżajsk-geo-stub