Smarżowa s is a village

Village

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 in the administrative district of Gmina Brzostek

Gmina Brzostek

Gmina Brzostek is an urban-rural gmina in Dębica County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. Its seat is the town of Brzostek...

, within Dębica County

Debica County

Dębica County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, south-eastern Poland. It was created on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Dębica, which lies west...

, 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 5 kilometres (3 mi) north-east of Brzostek

Brzostek

Brzostek is a town in Dębica County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Brzostek. The town has a population of 2,597 . It lies approximately south of Dębica and west of the regional capital Rzeszów.- History :Brzostek gained its city...

, 15 km (9 mi) south of Dębica

Debica

Dębica is a town in southeastern Poland with 46,693 inhabitants, as of 2 June 2009. It is the capital of Dębica County. Since 1999 it has been situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship; it had previously been in the Tarnów Voivodeship .-Area:...

, and 42 km (26 mi) west 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 650.

18 February 1846 - beginning of the Galician peasant revolt

Galician slaughter

"The Galician Slaughter" also "The Peasant Uprising of 1846" or Szela uprising was a two month uprising of Polish peasants resulting inter alia in suppression of other - szlachta uprising and massacre of szlachta in Galicia in the Austrian partition in early 1846. The peasant uprising lasted from...

. The massacre, led by Jakub Szela

Jakub Szela

Jakub Szela was a Polish leader of a peasant uprising against the gentry in Galicia in 1846; directed against manorial property and rising against serfdom; scores of manors were attacked and their inhabitants murdered...

 (born in Smarżowa), is also known as the Galician Massacre, and began on 18 February 1846. This led to the "Galician Slaughter," in which many nobles and their families were murdered by peasants. Szela units surrounded and attacked manor house

Manor house

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s and settlements located in three counties - 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...

, Jasło and Tarnów

Tarnów

Tarnów is a city in southeastern Poland with 115,341 inhabitants as of June 2009. The city has been situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship since 1999, but from 1975 to 1998 it was the capital of the Tarnów Voivodeship. It is a major rail junction, located on the strategic east-west connection...

. The revolt got out of hand and the Austrians had to put it down.