Pastwiska, Subcarpathian Voivodeship
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Pastwiska p is a village
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 in the administrative district of Gmina Zarszyn
Gmina Zarszyn
Gmina Zarszyn is a rural gmina in Sanok County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Zarszyn, which lies approximately west of Sanok and south of the regional capital Rzeszów....

, within 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...

, Subcarpathian Voivodeship
Subcarpathian Voivodeship
Podkarpackie Voivodeship , or Subcarpathian Voivodeship, is a voivodeship, or province, in extreme-southeastern Poland. Its administrative capital and largest city is Rzeszów...

, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) south-west of Zarszyn
Zarszyn
Zarszyn is a village in Sanok County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Zarszyn. It lies approximately west of Sanok and south of the regional capital Rzeszów.-References:...

, 21 km (13 mi) west of 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...

, and 56 km (35 mi) south of the regional capital Rzeszów
Rzeszów
Rzeszów is a city in southeastern Poland with a population of 179,455 in 2010. It is located on both sides of the Wisłok River, in the heartland of the Sandomierska Valley...

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The village has a population of 140.

In the village there is the small church of St Jozef with connections to Pope John Paul II. More information can be found at http://www.pastwiska.com/church.html

Close by the village hall there is a large stone memorial commemorating the death on the 18th September 1944 of the Czechoslovak war hero František Geisler who was killed by the Germans whilst rescuing his injured soldiers on the battle field during the early days of the Carpathian Campaign and the battle for Dukla Pass. More information at http://www.pastwiska.com/memorial.html
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