Jaśliska

Jaśliska
Village
Old houses in Jaśliska
Jaśliska
Coordinates: 49°27′N 21°48′E / 49.450°N 21.800°E / 49.450; 21.800
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Subcarpathian
County	Krosno County
Gmina	Gmina Jaśliska
Population	480

Jaśliska [jaˈɕlʲiska] (Ukrainian: Яслиська, Yaslys’ka) is a village in Krosno County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland, close to the border with Slovakia. It lies approximately 16 kilometres (10 mi) south-east of Dukla, 27 km (17 mi) south of Krosno, and 67 km (42 mi) south of the regional capital Rzeszów.

The village has a population of 480. It gives its name to the protected area known as Jaśliska Landscape Park.

Since 1 January 2010, Jaśliska has been the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Jaśliska, which was formerly part of Gmina Dukla. The village was previously the seat of a gmina in the periods 1934–1954 and 1973–1976.

In the early years of Polish statehood, the area of Jasliska probably belonged to the tribe of the Vistulans, which in the late 10th century became part of Poland. For the next centuries, this hilly corner of the kingdom was sparsely inhabited and covered by dense forests. In the mid-14th century, King Kazimierz Wielki decided to found a new town, located in the Jasiolka river valley. On January 28, 1366 in Opatowiec, the King granted Magdeburg rights to a town called Hohstadt (see Walddeutsche). First owner of the town was a Hungarian nobleman, John of Hanselin.

Hohstadt, whose name was later changed into Jasliska, had a vogt, and a medieval market square with a town hall, modelled after nearby Biecz. In the late 1360s, a man named Hank Weiss was named voght of Hohstadt, and in 1386 – 1389 the town with adjacent villages became property of Zyndram of Maszkowice, after whose death Hohstadt passed into royal hands. In 1431 King Wladyslaw Jagiello handed Hohstadt to Janusz, the Bishop of Przemysl. For the next 400 years, until 1848, Jasliska and a number of local villages, inhabited mostly by Rusyns, belonged to Bishops of Przemysl.