Wisłok Wielki
| Wisłok Wielki | |
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 The Latin church parish of Saint Onuphrius in Wisłok Wielki.
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| Name origin: The root of the name Vis-lok is Indo-European or pre-Indo-European (see also Wis-łoka, Wis-ła.) | |
| Country | Poland |
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| Region | Sanok County |
| District | Gmina Komańcza |
| River | Wisłok |
| Elevation | 482 m (1,581 ft) |
| Coordinates | 49°21′10″N 22°04′30″E / 49.35278°N 22.07500°ECoordinates: 49°21′10″N 22°04′30″E / 49.35278°N 22.07500°E |
| Area | 6.3 km2 (2 sq mi) |
| Population | 250 (31 December 2002) |
| Density | 40/km2 (104/sq mi) |
| First mentioned | 1361 |
| Timezone | CET (UTC+1) |
| - summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| Postal code | 38 543 |
| Car plate | KUS, RSA |
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| Website: http://www.komancza.pl | |
Wisłok Wielki [ˈvʲiswɔk ˈvʲɛlkʲi] (Ukrainian: Вислік Великий, Vyslik Velykyi) is a village in the Bukowsko Upland mountains. Since 1999 it is situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodship (province) of south-eastern Poland; previously in Krosno Voivodship (1975-1998) and Sanok district, Bukowsko subdistrict, located near the towns of Medzilaborce and Palota (in northeastern Slovakia). It was formerly officially divided into two parts: Wisłok Górny ("upper Wisłok") and Wisłok Dolny ("lower Wisłok"). The name "Wisłok Wielki" means "great Wisłok".
Wisłok Wielki (Vyslik Velykyi: Ukr.) was first mentioned, according to historical accounts, in 1361. In 1785 the village lands comprised 6.14 km2 (2.37 sq mi). Reportedly at the time, there were 711 Eastern-rite Catholics. The historical record relates that in 1361 the brothers Peter and Paul, "from Hungary," as feudal landholders, "owned" Wisłok Wielki, along with Bukowsko and several other area villages (see Nowotaniec, Zboiska, Humniska etc.). Located in the Ruthenian voivodehship of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Polish Kingdom and later Austria-Hungary Empire, the village, isolated and remote, remained largely impervious to change.
During World War I, the region would be at the epicentre of the conflict between the Austro-Hungarian and the Russian empires, with several small battles conducted in the vicinity of the Wisłok Wielki. At the conclusion of the global conflict and with the collapse of Austria-Hungary, Lemkos founded two short-lived republics, the Lemko-Rusyn Republic in the west of Galicia, which had a Russophile orientation, and the Komancza Republic, with an Ukrainophilic orientation, briefly lasting from 2 November 1918 to 23 January 1919.
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