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23-648: Kosów may refer to: Polish name for Kosiv in Ukraine Kosów, Łódź Voivodeship (central Poland) Kosów, Piaseczno County in Masovian Voivodeship (east-central Poland) Kosów Lacki , a town in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (east-central Poland) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with

46-629: A Kingdom of Poland was proclaimed by the German and the Austro-Hungarian Empires, which was then replaced by an independent Polish state in 1918. In a Reichstag speech on 25 October 1918, Korfanty demanded that the provinces of West Prussia (including Ermeland (Warmia)) and the city of Danzig (Gdańsk), the Province of Posen , and parts of the provinces of East Prussia ( Masuria ) and Silesia (Upper Silesia) to be included in

69-697: A result of the first of Partitions of Poland (Treaty of St. Petersburg dated 5 July 1772), Kosiv was attributed to the Habsburg Empire , as part of Austrian Galicia . Since 1867, Kosiv was the administrative center of the Kossow Bezirkshauptmannschaft (Austrian name of the district). In 1919, after the Great War , the area returned to Poland and was turned into a powiat seat within the Stanisławów Voivodship . In

92-654: The German invasion of Czechoslovakia, Korfanty moved on to France. He returned to Poland in the April 1939, after Nazi Germany had cancelled the Polish-German non-aggression pact of 1934, hoping that the renewed threat to Polish independence would help overcome the domestic political cleavage. He was arrested immediately upon arrival. In August, he was released as unfit for prison because of his bad health and died shortly afterwards, two weeks before World War II began with

115-506: The League of Nations . Poland was allotted by the League of Nations roughly half of the population and valuable mining districts, which were eventually attached to Poland. Korfanty was accused by Germans of organizing terrorism against German civilians of Upper Silesia. German propaganda newspapers also "smeared" him with ordering the murder of Silesian politician Theofil Kupka . Korfanty

138-686: The Prussian Landtag , where he represented the independent "Polish circle" ( Polskie koło ). That was a significant departure from tradition, as the Polish minority in Germany had so far predominantly supported the conservative Centre Party , which represented the large Catholic community in Germany, which felt inferior in the Protestant-dominated Reich. However, when it refused to advocate Polish minority rights (beyond

161-855: The Second Polish Republic , Kosów emerged as one of the most popular spas. The Kosów spa was founded in 1891 by doctor Apolinary Tarnawski . Here, in 1911, one of the first units of the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association was created by Kazimierz and Witold Lutosławski, and Olga Drohnowska. Kosów Huculski, as it was called, attracted top names of the interbellum Poland. The spa was visited, among others, by Roman Dmowski , Ignacy Daszynski , Wojciech Korfanty , Gabriela Zapolska , Juliusz Osterwa , Maria Dabrowska , Melchior Wankowicz , Xawery Dunikowski , Karol Adwentowicz , Leon Schiller , Stanisław Dygat , Jozef Pankiewicz , and Lucjan Rydel . In 1939, Kosów Huculski became part of

184-632: The University of Breslau , where the Marxist Werner Sombart was among his teachers. Korfanty and Sombart remained friends for many years. In 1901, Korfanty became editor-in-chief of the Polish language paper Górnoslązak ( The Upper Silesian ), in which he appealed to the national consciousness of the region's Polish-speaking population. In 1903, Korfanty was elected to the German Reichstag and in 1904 also to

207-588: The German invasion of Poland . Although the cause of death remains unclear, it has been claimed that the treatment he received in prison may have caused his health to deteriorate. After 1945, when the Polish communists sought legitimisation as the champions and guarantors of Polish independence, Korfanty was finally rehabilitated as a national hero for his fight to protect the Polish population in Upper Silesia from discrimination and for his efforts to join

230-733: The Poles' rights as Catholics), the Poles distanced themselves from it, seeking protection elsewhere. In a paper entitled Precz z Centrum ("Away with the Centre Party", 1901), Korfanty urged the Catholic Polish-speaking minority in Germany to overcome their national indifference and shift their political allegiance from supra-national Catholicism to the cause of the Polish nation. However, Korfanty retained his Christian Democratic convictions and later returned to them in domestic Polish politics. During World War I , in 1916,

253-982: The Polish state. After the war, during the Great Poland Uprising , Korfanty became a member of the Naczelna Rada Ludowa (Supreme People's Council) in Poznań and a member of the Polish provisional parliament, the Constituanta- Sejm . He was also the head of the Polish plebiscite committee in Upper Silesia. He was one of the leaders of the Second Silesian Uprising in 1920 and the Third Silesian Uprising in 1921, which were Polish insurrections against German rule in Upper Silesia. The German authorities were forced to leave their positions by

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276-752: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) as a result of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and the Invasion of Poland . Here, in September 1939, the government of Poland crossed the Romanian border. Despite this pact, Kosiv was occupied by Nazi Germany from July 1, 1941, until April 2, 1944. After that time it was, again, a member of the Soviet Union, until the independence of Ukraine in 1991. At

299-515: The beginning of World War II , around 3700 Jews lived in Kosiv. In October, 1941, the German security police, leading on Pidzamche street to the so-called "Town Mountain", rounded up and shot more than 2000 Jews, burning them in mass grave. In April 1942, the authorities forced 1000 Jews to move to Kolomyja, though some returned to Kosiv. In September, most of the remaining Jews in Kosiv were rounded up. Some were shot in Kosiv, 500 were sent to prison, and

322-827: The policies of Germanisation in Upper Silesia before the war and sought to join Silesia to Poland after Poland regained its independence . He was born the son of a coal miner in Sadzawka, part of Siemianowice (at the time Laurahütte ), in Prussian Silesia , then part of the German Empire . From 1895 until 1901, he studied philosophy, law, and economics, first at the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg ( Berlin ) (1895) and then at

345-550: The rest sent to Kolomyja and from there to Belzec where they were immediately murdered. In October and November, the Jews left behind and in hiding were murdered in Kosiv. About 100 Kosiv Jews survived, some hiding with sympathetic local inhabitants, others by fleeing the area. The distinctive painted ceramics from Kosiv originated in the 1700s and reflect the history and culture of Hutsul people. They were inscribed to UNESCO's list of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2021. Today,

368-569: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kosów&oldid=549660369 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Kosiv Ukrainian : Косiв , German : Kossow , Polish : Kosów , Romanian : Cosău , Yiddish : קאסאוו . From 1918 to 1945,

391-415: The territory of what is today Old Kosiv. In 1565, not far from modern-day Kosiv, Starosta of Sniatyn , Tenczynski founded a town named Rukiv (Polish: Rukow). Polish Crown Hetman Jerzy Jazlowiecki , the owner of Kuty , later destroyed it. Some years later, the town was recovered and named Kosiv (the earlier village of this name thus became Old Kosiv). Until 1772, Kosiv/Kosów was under Polish control. As

414-612: The town of Kosiv borders on the towns and villages of Babyn, Horod, Smodna, Cherhanivka, Staryi Kosiv, Verbovets and Pistyn. The distance from the railroad station in Vizhnytsa is 12 kilometers, from Zabolotiv is 25 kilometers and from Kolomyia — 35 kilometers. Roads with all neighbouring districts connect the city. The total length of roads is 362 kilometers. 160 kilometers of these roads are paved. Wojciech Korfanty Wojciech Korfanty ( IPA: [ˈvɔjt͡ɕɛx kɔrˈfantɨ] ; born Adalbert Korfanty ; 20 April 1873 – 17 August 1939)

437-569: The town, which at that time was part of the Second Polish Republic , was officially called Kosów Huculski. Initially, a small Hutsul settlement with the remnants of a small castle destroyed by the Turks, Kosiv was founded on the Ribnica (river). The first written mention of it is in the Grant Charter of Lithuanian Duke Svitrigaila , on September 31, 1424. At that time, the village was in

460-500: The whole society of a region . He briefly acted as vice-premier in the government of Wincenty Witos (October–December 1923). From 1924, he resumed his journalist activities as editor-in-chief of the papers Rzeczpospolita (" The Republic ", not to be confused with the modern newspaper of the same name) and Polonia . He opposed the May Coup of Józef Piłsudski and the subsequent establishment of Sanacja . In 1930, Korfanty

483-683: Was a Polish activist , journalist and politician, who served as a member of the German parliaments, the Reichstag and the Prussian Landtag , and later, in the Polish Sejm . Briefly, he also was a paramilitary leader, known for organizing the Polish Silesian Uprisings in Upper Silesia , which after World War I was contested by Germany and Poland. Korfanty fought to protect Poles from discrimination and

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506-540: Was a member of the national Sejm from 1922 to 1930 and in the Silesian Sejm (1922–1935), where he represented a Christian Democratic viewpoint. He opposed the autonomy of the Silesian Voivodship , which he saw as an obstacle against its reintegration into Poland. However, he defended the rights of the German minority in Upper Silesia because he believed that the prosperity of minorities enriched

529-531: Was arrested and imprisoned in the Brest-Litovsk fortress , together with other leaders of the Centrolew , an alliance of left-wing and centrist parties in opposition to the ruling government. In 1935, he was forced to leave Poland and emigrated to Czechoslovakia , from where he participated in the centre-right Morges Front group, founded by émigrés Ignacy Paderewski and Władysław Sikorski . After

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