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Solina [sɔˈlʲina] is a village in Lesko County , Subcarpathian Voivodeship , in south-eastern Poland. It is the former seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Solina (in 1999 Polańczyk became the new seat). It lies approximately 15 kilometres (9 mi) south-east of Lesko and 80 km (50 mi) south-east of the regional capital Rzeszów . In 2002 the village had a population of 190.

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16-759: Solina may refer to: Places [ edit ] Solina, Poland , a village Gmina Solina , an administrative district in Poland Lake Solina in Poland Solina Dam in Poland Solina, Tuzla , a part of city Tuzla in Bosnia and Herzegovina People [ edit ] Solina Chau (born c. 1961), a businesswoman in Hong Kong Solina Nyirahabimana ,

32-436: A Rwandan diplomat and politician Franc Solina , a Slovenian computer scientist and university professor Other [ edit ] ARP String Ensemble , a polyphonic multi-orchestral synthesizer Antiblemma solina , a moth Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Solina . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

48-533: A direct connection of the Boykos with the region of Boiki mentioned in the 10th century De Administrando Imperio , but this thesis is outdated and rejected, as most scholars, Mykhailo Hrushevsky among them, already dismissed it in the 19th century because Boiki is a clear reference to Bohemia , which in turn derives from the Celtic tribe of Boii . The derivation from Boii, is also disputed because there

64-516: A village owned by the family of Kmits from Sobien. At the end of the 15th century it was subject to the Wallachian law again. There were three main ethnic groups living in the village until World War II: Boyko (Ukrainians), Jews and Poles . During the Holocaust most Jews were taken away to concentration camps by Nazi Germans occupying Poland. Another ethnic group of Boyko were forced by

80-578: Is also on top of many attempts within the USSR and modern day Ukraine to assimilate the Rusyn people into the modern Ukraine state. In the Polish census of 2011, 258 people stated Boyko as a national-ethnic identity, with 14 of those people listing it as their only national-ethnic identity. To the west of Boykos live Lemkos , east or southeast Hutsuls , northward Dnistrovyans, Opolyans . Most Boykos belong to

96-698: Is best known for the tallest water dam in Poland, the Solina Dam , which creates the biggest artificial lake in Poland , Lake Solina . There is no industry left after the liquidation of the Hydrobudowa site near the dam. Main employer is PGE, owning the hydroelectric plant in Solina. Local people highly depend on tourist income in the summer by renting rooms, running restaurants and bars and selling souvenirs. On

112-455: Is not enough evidence. They are also called Vrchovints (Highlanders). As in the case of Hutsuls and Lemkos , they are recorded in historical and ethnographic sources since the 18th and 19th century. Some people otherwise identifiable as Boykos regard that name as derogatory and call themselves highlanders (verkhovyntsi). Boykos are either considered one of the descendants of East Slavic tribes, specifically White Croats who lived in

128-538: The Carpathian Mountains of Ukraine , Slovakia , Hungary , and Poland . Along with the neighbouring Lemkos and Hutsuls , the Boykos are considered a sub-group of Ukrainians and speak a dialect of Ukrainian language. Within Ukraine the Boykos and other Rusyns are seen as a sub-group of ethnic Ukrainians Boykos differ from their neighbors in dialect, dress, folk architecture, and customs. Regarding

144-567: The forced relocation of Rusyns and Ukrainians in Poland in 1947 . In commemoration of Boykos, Ukraine's national parliament, the Verkhovna Rada , in 2016 renamed Telmanove Raion into Boykivske Raion where Boykos were deported from Czarna, Bieszczady County (today in Poland) after the 1951 Polish–Soviet territorial exchange . It is estimated from the evidence available that in 1970 there lived 230,000 people of Boyko origin. In Ukraine,

160-470: The classification of Boykos and other Rusyns as an ethnicity distinct from Ukrainians is controversial. The deprecated and archaic term Ruthenian , while also derived from Rus' , is ambiguous, as it technically may refer to Rusyns and Ukrainians , as well as Belarusians and in some cases Russians , depending on the historical period. According to the 2001 Ukraine census, only 131 people identified themselves as Boykos, separate from Ukrainians. This

176-703: The communist government to move to the Soviet Union or west of Poland during the Operation Vistula . The Polish people that were left were moved in 1960 to the village of Berezka because of the Solina Dam creation. This Lesko County location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Boyko The Boykos ( Ukrainian : бойки , romanized :  boiky ; Polish : Bojkowie ; Slovak : Pujďáci ), or simply Highlanders ( верховинці , verkhovyntsi or ґоралы , goraly ), are an ethnolinguistic group located in

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192-453: The east side of the dam there are a lot of attractions open during summer, such as water sport equipment rental, a port with tourist ships, amusement park, disco and beach. Clean air and natural scenery are all around, bringing many visitors in the summer. The few hotels of various standards and local B&B's often are fully booked. The name of the village comes from the Solinka river that

208-459: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solina&oldid=1086341752 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with given-name-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Solina, Poland It

224-486: The origin of the name Boyko there exist several etymological hypotheses, but it is generally considered, as explained by priest Joseph Levytsky in his Hramatyka (1831), that it derives from the particle boiie . Specifically, it derives from the exclamation "бой!, бойє!" ( < bo-i-je > ), meaning "it is really so!", which is often used by the population. The 19th-century scholar Pavel Jozef Šafárik , with whom Franjo Rački and Henry Hoyle Howorth agreed, argued

240-745: The region, possibly also Ulichs who arrived from the East, or Vlach shepherds who later immigrated from Transylvania. In the Boyko Region ( Polish : Bojkowszczyzna, Ukrainian / Boyko : Boikivshchyna), there lived up to 400,000 people of whom most were Boykos. They also lived in Sanok , Lesko and Przemyśl County of the Podkarpackie Voivodeship in Poland, before the Population exchange between Poland and Soviet Ukraine and

256-583: Was meeting the San river in the village before the creation of the lake. The original Solina village was located up the San river but due to the Solina lake creation it lies under water now. Today's Solina was created along with the water dam on the grounds of the small village of Zabrodzie. The original Solina village was one of the oldest villages in the Bieszczady mountains. It was first mentioned in 1436 as

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