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47-534: Tributaries of the Wisłoka include: This Podkarpackie Voivodeship location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a river in Poland is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Podkarpackie Voivodeship Subcarpathian Voivodeship is a voivodeship , or province , in the southeastern corner of Poland . Its administrative capital and largest city

94-606: A part of the Ruthenian Voivodeship . Several courts of justice operated in the town, including the municipal and rural courts of lower instance and also the higher instance court for the entire Sanok Land, based on the German town law . Germans settled in the territory of the Kingdom of Poland (territory of present-day Subcarpathian Voivodeship ) from the 14th to 16th centuries ( see Ostsiedlung ), mostly after

141-696: A producer of high capacity buses, cabins for the Polish Army and bodies for rail-vehicles. Stomil is next to the main train station in Sanok and Autosan is a 10-minute walk from the station, while the town centre is a 15-minute walk in the other direction. The town has several public schools and a branch of the Polish High School of Technology. The town also has a football club called Stal Sanok and some other sport clubs (including volleyball, swimming, handball, ice hockey ). The Sanok Castle near

188-483: A tourist hostel, a camp-site, a sports stadium with technical facilities, etc. There is also another artificial ice rink in the centre of the town, designed for ice hockey and managed by the ice hockey club STS Sanok . There are two more sports facilities at Stróżowska street: a stadium of sports club Stal Sanok , and a gymnasium of the Technical Schools Complex. In winter, a ski-lift operates in

235-645: Is Rzeszów . Along with the Marshal, it is governed by the Subcarpathian Regional Assembly . The name derives from the region's location near the Carpathian Mountains , and the voivodeship comprises areas of two historic regions of Central Europe— Lesser Poland (western and northwestern counties) and Cherven Cities / Red Ruthenia . It is bordered by Lesser Poland Voivodeship to the west, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship to

282-586: Is now Subcarpathia was overrun in pre-Roman times by various tribes, including the Celts ( Anarti ), Goths and Vandals ( Przeworsk culture and Púchov culture ). In the Middle Ages , the area was inhabited by the Polish tribe of Lendians , and the area was also invaded by Hungarians , before it eventually became part of the emerging Polish state in the 10th century. The region subsequently became part of

329-421: The Carpathian Mountains . Once settled by Poles, Jews and Ukrainians , the town's history goes back almost 1000 years when it was part of a medieval trade route. The Museum of Folk Architecture as well as the refurbished Sanok Castle and Old Town are popular points of interest. The region also features a 70 km trail for hikers and cyclists. The city of Sanok is the capital of Sanok County in

376-566: The Central Industrial Region . The program created several major armament factories, including PZL Mielec , PZL Rzeszów, Huta Stalowa Wola , and factories in other Subcarpathian towns such as Dębica , Nowa Dęba , Sanok , Tarnobrzeg and Nowa Sarzyna . Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland , which started World War II in September 1939, most of the current province was occupied by Nazi Germany with

423-575: The Galicia province. For more details, see the article Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria . In the mid-18th century, 47.7% of the town's population was Roman Catholic (Polish), 36.4% Jewish, and 14.7% Greek Catholic (Ruthenian). The Galician peasant revolt took place in the region during the revolutions of 1848 . The course of the river Dunajec and that of the San , both in West Galicia, marked

470-657: The Great Moravian state. Upon the invasion of the Hungarian tribes into the heart of the Great Moravian Empire around 899, the Lendians of the area declared their allegiance to Hungarian Empire . The region then became a site of contention between Poland, Kievan Rus' and Hungary starting in at least the 9th century. The first traces of settlement in the area of modern Sanok date back to at least

517-663: The Kievan Rus' , the Golden Horde , and the Kingdom of Hungary , before Poland regained full control in the 14th century. Following the Partitions of Poland the entire region was annexed by Austria and included within the newly established Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria . The oldest cities in the province, with over 1,000 years of history, are Przemyśl and Sanok . Rzeszów , Łańcut and Tarnobrzeg , with their castles and palaces, were important residential cities of

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564-673: The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Poland . There are local types of pierogi , gołąbki , barszcz and other soups . Motorcycle speedway , volleyball , ice hockey and football enjoy the largest following in the province. Resovia and Stal Rzeszów contest the Rzeszów Derby, one of the fiercest and most contested in Poland, with over 90 games (as of May 2024). 49°57′24″N 22°10′22″E  /  49.95667°N 22.17278°E  / 49.95667; 22.17278 Sanok Sanok [ˈsanɔk] (in full

611-518: The Polish Cup twice, in 2010-11 and 2011–12. The local football club is Stal Sanok , which competes in the lower leagues. There many sports facilities in Sanok and the main complex of those facilities is The Civic Sports and Recreation Centre, situated near the San River . The Centre includes: the artificial speed skating oval Tor Błonie, a complex of indoor and outdoor swimming pools, a hotel,

658-544: The Polish local-government reforms adopted in 1998. Subcarpathian Voivodeship's government powers are shared between the voivode (governor), the sejmik (regional assembly), and the marshal . The voivodeship contains 6 cities and 45 towns. These are listed below in descending order of population (according to official figures as of 2019) Towns: Subcarpathian Voivodeship is divided into 25 counties ( powiats ): 4 city counties and 21 land counties. These are further divided into 160 gminas . The counties are listed in

705-568: The Royal Free City of Sanok — Polish : Królewskie Wolne Miasto Sanok , Rusyn : Санок , Sanok , Ukrainian : Сянок or Cянік , Sianok or Sianik , Latin : Sanocum , Yiddish : סאָניק , Sūnik or Sonik ) is a town in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship of southeastern Poland with 38,397 inhabitants, as of June 2016. Located on the San River and around 52 km south of Przemyśl , Sanok lies directly by

752-657: The Subcarpathian Voivodeship in Poland. Previously, it was in the Krosno Voivodeship (1975–1998) and in the Ruthenian Voivodeship (1340–1772), which was part of the Cherven Cities / Red Ruthenia region, and in wider sense, of the Lesser Poland Province (not of Lesser Poland proper). Historically, it was part of the Land of Sanok . This historic city is situated on the San River at

799-460: The 9th century. The following century a Slavic fortified town ( gord ) was created there and initially served as a center of pagan worship. The etymology of the name is unclear, though most scholars derive it from the Celtic river-name San . Certain archaeological excavations performed on the castle hill and on Fajka hill near Sanok- Trepcza , not only confirm the written resources, but date

846-587: The EU27 average in the same year. The GDP per employee was 59% of the EU average. Podkarpackie Voivodship is the province with the third lowest GDP per capita in Poland. The Rzeszów–Jasionka Airport is the province's international airport. The A4 and S19 highways pass through the province, with the S74 also planned for construction. Population according to 2002 census There are three UNESCO World Heritage Sites in

893-642: The Jewish population was around 5,000. During the occupation, most of the Jews were either executed or killed in Nazi death camps or Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust . Some of the actions against the Jews were assisted by local auxiliaries and hundreds of the deaths occurred in Sanok itself, while the Polish resistance movement established the secret Polish Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" , which operated in

940-514: The Lemkos expelled returned to Sanok in 1957-58 and others after 1989. Sanok contains an open-air museum called a skansen in the Biała Góra district, where examples of architecture from all of the region's main ethnic groups have been moved and carefully reassembled in a skansen evoking everyday rural life in the 19th century. Settled in prehistoric times , the south-eastern Poland region that

987-919: The National Museum in Przemyśl and Regional Museum in Rzeszów. The more unique museums include the Museum of Folk Architecture in Sanok, Markowa Ulma-Family Museum of Poles Who Saved Jews in World War II , Museum of Oil and Gas Industry at the location of the world's oldest oil field in Bóbrka , and Museum of the Polish Sulfur Industry in Tarnobrzeg . There are several monuments and memorials to inventor Ignacy Łukasiewicz , pioneer of

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1034-562: The Sanok stronghold origin to as early as the 9th century. On Fajka hill, where probably the first settlement of Sanok was situated, some remains of an ancient sanctuary and a cemetery were found, as well as numerous decorations and encolpions in Kievan type. Also found were two seals of the Great Kievan Prince Rurik Rostislavich from the second half of the 12th century. Near the central town square and

1081-553: The centre of the old town houses a museum displaying over 300 fine icons. The Museum of Folk Architecture is one of the biggest open-air museums in Poland and show cases 19th and early 20th century life in this area of Poland. The city has two professional sports teams. The local ice hockey team is STS Sanok , which has won the Polska Hokej Liga league title twice, in the 2011/2012 and 2013/2014 season. They won

1128-595: The confines of the city. Sanok is located on the bank of the river San. The area surrounding mountain range stretches between the Wisłok , Osława and San Rivers in the Salt Mountains ( Central Beskidian Piedmont ), in the inland with temperateness climate. The hills of the Bieszczady mountain range are typical for this countryside. Sanok County is bordered by Krosno County to the west, Brzozów County to

1175-690: The eastern outskirts occupied by the Soviet Union, and the city of Przemyśl divided between the occupiers until 1941, and then the entire region occupied by Germany until 1944. Following the Soviet annexation of the regional capital of Lwów , Rzeszów was chosen as the new regional capital and the Rzeszów Voivodeship was founded. The voivodeship was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Rzeszów , Przemyśl , Krosno and (partially) Tarnów and Tarnobrzeg Voivodeships, pursuant to

1222-715: The ethnic Ukrainian Waffen-SS . Because of material support and assistance provided by the Ukrainian minority to the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which was waging a battle for Ukrainian separatism against the Polish state, new Soviet-installed communist authorities deported the Ukrainian (and Lemko) population of Sanok and its region to the Recovered Territories attached to Poland after World War II during Operation Vistula (1946–1947). Some of

1269-474: The fields of science, culture, education, trade, tourism and economy. In 981, Sanok along with several other Cherven gords , then inhabited by the Slavic tribe of Lendians , was made a part of Red Ruthenia , when Vladimir I of Kiev invaded the area and took it over from Poland . In 1018, the settlement along with the surrounding region returned to Poland, and in 1031, was again recaptured by Rus'. In 1339,

1316-488: The following table (ordering within categories is by decreasing population). Protected areas in Subcarpathian Voivodeship include two national parks and 11 Landscape Parks . These are listed below. The Gross domestic product (GDP) of the province was 19.4 billion euros in 2018, accounting for 3.9% of Polish economic output. GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power was 15,100 euros or 50% of

1363-570: The foot of Castle Hill in the Lesser Poland ( Małopolska ) region. It lies in a wooded, hilly area near the national road number 28, which runs along southern Poland, from Ustrzyki Dolne to Wadowice (340 km or 211 mi away). It is located in the heartland of the Pogórze Bukowskie part of Doły (Pits) , and its average elevation is 300 m (984 ft) above sea level , although there are some hills located within

1410-745: The global oil industry, in places where he studied and worked, including Bóbrka, Krosno , Łańcut , Jasło and Rzeszów . There are memorials to the Hungarian Renaissance poet Bálint Balassi in Odrzykoń , Nowy Żmigród and Rymanów , where he stayed at various times. In addition to traditional nationwide Polish cuisine , Subcarpathian Voivodeship is known for its variety of regional and local traditional foods , which include especially various cheeses , meat products (incl. various types of kiełbasa , bacon and salceson ), cakes, honeys and various dishes and meals, officially protected by

1457-534: The most wooded Polish voivodeships (35.9% of total area), within its borders there is whole Bieszczady National Park , and parts of Magura National Park . In the Early Middle Ages , the territory was inhabited by the Vistulans and Lendians , old Polish tribes . It formed part of Poland since its first historic ruler Mieszko I , however, later on, at various times, portions of the region fell under

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1504-502: The nearby Karlików . In the mid-18th century, Roman Catholics constituted 48.7% of the population, people of Jewish faith 36.5%, and 14.7% of the inhabitants belonged to the Greek Catholic Church. In 1900, the town had 6123 inhabitants, 57% Polish , 30% Jewish , and the remainder of various Rusyn ethnicities ( Boyko , Lemkos , etc.), and others. The town's large population of Jews were almost all murdered during

1551-480: The north, Przemyśl County to the north-east and Lesko County to the east. It also borders Slovakia to the south. Before World War II , the Oslawa and San Rivers line was designated the wild frontier between Poles and Lemkos . The city is a member of Carpathian Euroregion , which is designed to bring together the people who inhabit the region of the Carpathian Mountains and to facilitate their cooperation in

1598-463: The north-west, Lublin Voivodeship to the north, Ukraine ( Lviv Oblast and Zakarpattia Oblast ) to the east and Slovakia ( Prešov Region ) to the south. It covers an area of 17,844 square kilometres (6,890 sq mi), and has a population of 2,127,462 (as at 2019). The voivodeship is mostly hilly or mountainous (see Bieszczady , Beskidy ); its northwestern corner is flat. It is one of

1645-567: The powerful Polish magnate families of Lubomirski , Potocki and Tarnowski . During the interwar period (1918–1939), territory of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship was part of the Lwów Voivodeship and belonged to "Poland B" , the less-developed, more rural parts of Poland. To boost the local economy, the government of the Second Polish Republic began in the mid-1930s a massive program of industrialization, known as

1692-533: The previous Jewish ghetto, there is a valley where much of the Jewish population was murdered en masse by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Sanok has a strong industry base - home to Stomil Sanok (established in 1932) and Pass Gummiwerke plants, producers of various rubber and metal-rubber seals, strings and laggings for automotive sector, construction industries and electrical household goods sector, PGNiG and Sanok Bus Car Factory " Autosan " (established in 1832),

1739-575: The region returned to Poland in 1340, when Casimir III of Poland took the Czerwień towns. Marcin Bielski states that Bolesław I the Brave had settled some Germans in the region to defend the borders against Hungary and Kievan Rus', who later turned to farming. Maciej Stryjkowski mentions German peasants near Przeworsk , Przemyśl , Sanok, and Jarosław , describing them as good farmers. The region

1786-670: The town on September 25, 1939 to commit various atrocities against the populace . In 1939–1940, the Germans imprisoned many Poles in the local prison, especially those who tried to escape occupation to take refuge in Hungary . The Germans then massacred 112 Poles at the Gruszka mountain near Tarnawa Dolna . The victims are buried at the Central Cemetery in Sanok. At the beginning of the German occupation during World War II ,

1833-602: The town was given the Magdeburg law by Boleslaw-Yuri II of Galicia . Sanok was mentioned in the Ruthenian Hypatian Codex chronicle, where one can read that in the year 1150: The Hungarian King Géza II of Hungary crossed the mountains and seized the stronghold of Sanok with its governor as well as many villages in the Przemyśl area . The same chronicle refers to Sanok twice more, stating that in 1205 it

1880-506: The town. Buildings that had been owned by Jews were taken over by the local population. The local Jewish cemetery still exists. Several hundred Jews are thought to have survived, most of whom fled to the Soviet Union at the beginning of the war. Some of the Jews emigrated to Canada and the United States in the early 1900s with Sanoker Burial Societies spreading throughout New York and other regions where they settled. In 1942, Sanok

1927-577: The two successive stages in the breakthrough battle which initiated the Austro-German offensive of 1915 on the eastern front. An attempt to hold the line of the Wisłok river and the Łupków Pass failed before renewed Austro-German attacks on 8 May 1915. Wisłok Valley was one of the strategically important Carpathian rivers bitterly contested in battles on the Eastern Front of World War I during

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1974-825: The voivodeship: There are seven Historic Monuments of Poland in the voivodeship: Other preserved historic old towns include Krosno , nicknamed "Little Kraków", Jarosław , Rzeszów , Sanok . In Jarosław, Przemyśl and Rzeszów there are underground tourist routes in historic cellars under the old town market squares. There are numerous castles and palaces in the province, including the Royal Castles in Przemyśl and Sanok , and former noble castles and palaces in Baranów Sandomierski , Dukla , Rzeszów , Tarnobrzeg and Tyczyn . There are five spa towns : Horyniec-Zdrój , Iwonicz-Zdrój , Polańczyk , Rymanów-Zdrój , Solina . There are several museums, including

2021-598: The winter of 1914–1915. During World War I , the Russian army occupied the town from May until July, 1915 and significantly damaged the town. The town was subsequently occupied by troops of the Austro-Hungarian Empire . In 1918 Poland regained independence and control of the town and within the interwar Second Polish Republic it was the seat of the Sanok County in the Lwów Voivodeship . Sanok

2068-476: Was also traditionally inhabited by subgroups of the Rusyn people : Lemkos and Boykos . As early at the 17th century, an important trade route went across Sanok connecting the interior of Hungary with Poland through the Łupków Pass . As a result of the First Partition of Poland (Treaty of St-Petersburg dated 5 July 1772), Sanok was attributed to the Habsburg monarchy . At that time the area (including west and east of Subcarpathian Voivodship) became known as

2115-401: Was known as a centre of Ukrainian movement in Galicia , and of cultural heritage of the Lemkos and other Rusyns . The Jewish population of Sanok may have comprised nearly 30% of the total population in the early 20th century. During the joint German–Soviet invasion of Poland , which started World War II , in September 1939, it was invaded by Germany, and the Einsatzgruppe I entered

2162-426: Was the location of the Stalag 327 prisoner-of-war camp , following its relocation from Jarosław and before its further relocation to Przemyśl . Afterwards the present-day district of Olchowce was the location of a subcamp of Stalag 327, in which some 7,000-10,000 POWs died. In 1943 the foundation of the Waffen-SS Division Galizien took place among the Ukrainian minority in Sanok, with many locals volunteering in

2209-440: Was the meeting place of a Ruthenian princess Anna and a Hungarian king, and that in 1231 a Ruthenian prince made an expedition to "Sanok - Hungarian Gate ". During the Galicia–Volhynia Wars , Sanok was seized by King Casimir III of Poland , who reconfirmed its municipal status on 25 April 1366, and made it a royal city of the Polish Crown. At that time Sanok became the centre of a new administrative district called Sanok Land ,

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