Binczarowa b is a village in southern Poland. It is parallel to the stream known as Binczarce.

History

Binczarowa was first mentioned in Polish history in 1365, in a decree of Casimir the Great, under the name Bibyczareban, which forced the city of Grybow

Grybów

Grybów is a town in the Nowy Sącz County, in Lesser Poland Voivodeship of Poland, with 12,409 inhabitants . It is located in the heartland of the Doły , and its average altitude is 370 metres above sea level, although there are some hills located within the confines of the city, Grybów has the...

 to give up its rights to the surrounding forest. In 1531, the Rusyn

Rusyns

Carpatho-Rusyns are a primarily diasporic ethnic group who speak an Eastern Slavic language, or Ukrainian dialect, known as Rusyn. Carpatho-Rusyns descend from a minority of Ruthenians who did not adopt the use of the ethnonym "Ukrainian" in the early twentieth century...

 Ivan Trukhanovych (Polish

Polish language

Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

: Iwan Truchanowicz) obtained the town and Polish nobility from Sigismund I the Old

Sigismund I the Old

Sigismund I of Poland , of the Jagiellon dynasty, reigned as King of Poland and also as the Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1506 until 1548...

.

After the First Partition of Poland in 1772, it was part of the Galician district of Grybów

Grybów

Grybów is a town in the Nowy Sącz County, in Lesser Poland Voivodeship of Poland, with 12,409 inhabitants . It is located in the heartland of the Doły , and its average altitude is 370 metres above sea level, although there are some hills located within the confines of the city, Grybów has the...

, and part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was the birthplace of Jaroslav Kacmarcyk

Jaroslav Kacmarcyk

Doctor Jaroslav Kacmarcyk or Jarosław Kaczmarczyk, also spelled Iaroslav Karchmarchyk was born in Binczarowa, and was the head of the Lemko-Rusyn Republic from 1918 to 1920...

 (1885-1944), president of the Lemko-Rusyn Republic

Lemko-Rusyn Republic

The Ruthenian National Republic of the Lemko People , often known as the Lemko Republic or the Lemko-Rusyn Republic, was founded in Florynka on 5 December 1918, in the aftermath of World War I, after the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire...

, and of Metodyj Trochanovskij

Metodyj Trochanovskij

Metodyj Trochanovskij , Lemko activist, was born in Binczarowa, Poland, when it was part of the province of Galicia of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, on May 5, 1885. At the onset of World War I, he was accused of treason against Austria-Hungary, arrested, prosecuted, and sentenced to death in 1916...

 (1885-1947), who published a Lemko grammar.
It was briefly independent from December 5, 1918, until March, 1920, as part of the Lemko-Rusyn Republic

Lemko-Rusyn Republic

The Ruthenian National Republic of the Lemko People , often known as the Lemko Republic or the Lemko-Rusyn Republic, was founded in Florynka on 5 December 1918, in the aftermath of World War I, after the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire...

 (Ruska Narodna Respublika Lemkiu, or Ruska Lemkivsa Respublyka).

After World War II, it was depopulated by the Polish government in Operation Vistula in 1947.

Geography

Binczarowa is a Lemko village in the western Lemkivshchyna

Lemkivshchyna

Lemkivshchyna sometimes called Lemkovyna, Lemkivshchyna, Lemkovshchina or Łemkowszczyzna, is the region traditionally inhabited by the Lemkos. It forms an ethnographic peninsula 140 km long and 25–50 km wide from the Ukrainian border within Polish and Slovak territory...

. It occupies a mountain valley in the Polish commune of Grybów

Grybów

Grybów is a town in the Nowy Sącz County, in Lesser Poland Voivodeship of Poland, with 12,409 inhabitants . It is located in the heartland of the Doły , and its average altitude is 370 metres above sea level, although there are some hills located within the confines of the city, Grybów has the...

, county of Nowy Sącz

Nowy Sacz

Nowy Sącz is a town in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland. It is the district capital of Nowy Sącz County, but is not included within the powiat.-Names:...

, Lesser Poland Voivodeship

Lesser Poland Voivodeship

Małopolska Voivodeship , or Lesser Poland Voivodeship, is a voivodeship, in southern Poland...

. It is situated along a stream known as the Binczarce, a tributary of the Poprad. It lies between the towns of Florynka

Florynka

Florynka is a village in southern Poland, in the commune of Grybów, Nowy Sącz County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship. It lies approximately south of Grybów, east of Nowy Sącz, and south-east of the regional capital Kraków.-History:...

 to the east and Bogusza

Bogusza

Bogusza is a village in southern Poland. It lies approximately east of Kamionka Wielka, south-east of Nowy Sącz, and south-east of the regional capital Kraków.-Geography:...

in the west.

Culture and Religion

The town is the site of St. Dymitr's Church, built in 1760.
The town is the site of a large World War I cemetery.