Wisłok Dolny is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

Sanok County __NOTOC__ Sanok County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, south-eastern Poland, on the Slovakia, Slovak border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish loc ...

in East Małopolska in the Lesser Beskid mountains, in the parish of

Nowotaniec Nowotaniec is a village in south-eastern Poland, inhabited by about 430 (2002), in the Pogórze Bukowskie (Bukowsko Upland) mountains. Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously in the Krosno Voivodeship (1975–1998) an ...

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. It is now part of

Wisłok Wielki Wisłok Wielki () is a village in the Pogórze Bukowskie, Bukowsko Upland mountains. Since 1999 it is situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodship (Administrative divisions of Poland, province) of south-eastern Poland; previously in Krosno Voivodship ...

History

The village was first mentioned in 1361. In 1785 the village lands comprised 6.14 km². There were 820 Catholics and 41 Jews. Saint Onufrius Church was built in 1850, and still stands. A wooden church replaced an older church from at least 1828. In April 1946 a battle between the Polish army and the UPA took place. A dozen years after the war, the village started to rebuild. Many people were deported as part of

ethnic cleansing Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, or religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making the society ethnically homogeneous. Along with direct removal such as deportation or population transfer, it ...

from Wisłok on April 29, 1947 (Akcja Wisla) to the Pomorze area of Poland and many already had been deported to the

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in 1946.

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