Borysławka

Borysławka
Village
Borysławka
Coordinates: 49°39′N 22°38′E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Subcarpathian
County	Przemyśl
Gmina	Fredropol

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.[1] 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.[2]

History

The first mention of Borysławka dates back to 1494, when Jan Ryboticki received the village.[3]

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)[4]

People from Borysławka

• Pavlo Vasylyk (1926—2004), Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch

References

1. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
2. "Borysławka, 1". Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (in Polish). 1. Warszawa: Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego. 1880. p. 334.
3. Ludwik Wyrostek, Ród Dragów-Sasów na Węgrzech i Rusi Halickiej, Kraków 1932, s. 37.
4. 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.