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Czaszyn ' is a Polish village

Village

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in the Sanok County

Sanok County

Sanok County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, south-eastern Poland, on the Slovak border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is...

in the East Małopolska

Lesser Poland

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in the Lesser Beskid mountains. The Roman Catholic church (parish of p.w. Podwyższenia Krzyża Świętego) for the village of Czaszyn was located in the village, within the diocese of Przemyśl

Przemysl

Przemyśl is a city in south-eastern Poland with 66,756 inhabitants, as of June 2009. In 1999, it became part of the Podkarpackie Voivodeship; it was previously the capital of Przemyśl Voivodeship....

. The population

Population

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today is about 1410 people.

History

Czaszyn is currently situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Krosno Voivodship (1975–1998) and Sanok

Sanok

Sanok is a town in south-eastern Poland with 39,110 inhabitants, as of 2 June 2009. It's the capital of Sanok County in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship. Previously, it was in the Krosno Voivodeship and in the Ruthenian Voivodeship , which was part of the Lesser Poland province...

district, (10 miles east of Sanok), located near the towns of Medzilaborce

Medzilaborce

Medzilaborce is a town in northeastern Slovakia close to the border with Poland, located near the towns of Sanok and Bukowsko . Its population is approximately 6,600.-Characteristics:...

and Palota

Palota

Palota is a village and municipality in the Medzilaborce District in the Prešov Region of far north-eastern Slovakia.-Geography:The municipality lies at an altitude of 482 metres and covers an area of 24.116 km². It has a population of about 190 people....

(in northeastern Slovakia

Slovakia

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). This is within the historical region of Galicia.

The first documentation of Czaszyn appeared 1424. By 1785, the village lands comprised 15.66 km² and there were 4600 Catholics. The masonry church was built and blessed in 1835, replacing an old wooden church. Church was "Translation of Saint Nicholas", built in 1835, still standing. The church was destroyed in 1946.

The village was burned in 1946 by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). Some residents left the village for Ukraine

Ukraine

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at that time. In response, the Polish Communist government's Akcja Wisła resettlement project forced some Ukrainian residents to leave Czaszyn on April 29, 1947 for the former eastern territories of Germany.

Geography

Czaszyn about 10 miles from Sanok

Sanok

in south-eastern Poland. It is situated below the main watershed at the foot of the Słonne Mountain

Carpathian Mountains

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, and has an elevation of 270 meters. The municipality

Municipality

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covers an area

Area

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of 10.6617 km².

Most popular surnames in the region

Surnames (19th) : Bednarz, Bosy, Wójt, Galicz, Giba, Hliwiatczyn, Dziedzic, Duda, Kowal, Kudla, Kuryca, Malowany, Maruszczak, Mielnik, Miszczyszyn, Mudry, Owsianik, Ostach, Ostrowski, Pawilszyn, Plaksa, Romanisko, Sałak, Sierak, Sowa, Fal, Chomka, Szpak

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Time zone :
UTC+1

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/SummerUTC+2

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