Borysławka
Borysławka [bɔrɨˈswafka] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Fredropol, within Przemyśl County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine. It lies approximately 11 kilometres (7 mi) south-west of Fredropol, 18 km (11 mi) south-west of Przemyśl, and 63 km (39 mi) south-east of the regional capital Rzeszów.
Geography
The Borysławka stream flows into the Wiar.
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)
People from Borysławka
- Pavlo Vasylyk (1926—2004), Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch
References
- ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
- ^ "Borysławka, 1". Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (in Polish). 1. Warszawa: Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego. 1880. p. 334.
- ^ Ludwik Wyrostek, Ród Dragów-Sasów na Węgrzech i Rusi Halickiej, Kraków 1932, s. 37.
- ^ 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.
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