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The Lemkos' homeland is commonly referred to as the Lemko Region (Ukrainian: Лeмкiвщина; Rusyn: Лeмкoвина; Polish: Łemkowszczyzna). Up until 1945, this included the area from the Poprad River in the west to the valley of Oslawa River in the east, areas situated primarily in present-day Poland , in the Lesser Poland and ...
The Lemko Region (Rusyn: Лемковина, romanized: Lemkovyna; Polish: Łemkowszczyzna; Ukrainian: Лемківщина, romanized: Lemkivshchyna) is an ethnographic area in southern Poland and Northern Eastern Slovakia that has traditionally been inhabited by the Lemko people.
The western Lemkos were concerned that they would be incorporated into the Western Ukrainian People's Republic against their will. In November 1918, an anti-Ukrainian rally was held in Świątkowa Wielka, where Rusyn activists spoke against joining the Ukrainian state.
The Zawadka Morochowska massacres were a series of mass killing of ethnic Ukrainians and Lemkos in Poland, perpetrated by units of the communist People's Army of Poland on 25 January, 28 March, and 13 April 1946 in the village of Zawadka Morochowska, [1] during deportation of Ukrainians from Poland to the Soviet Union after the end of World War II.
Oy Vershe Miy, Vershe (Ukrainian: Ой верше мій, верше, transl. "Oh Mountain, My Mountain") — a Lemko folk song. It is one of the most popular Lemko songs, holding a special place among the most performed Ukrainian songs.
According to the 2001 Ukraine census, only 131 people identified themselves as Boykos, separate from Ukrainians. [1] This is also on top of many attempts within the USSR and modern day Ukraine to assimilate the Rusyn people into the modern Ukraine state. In the Polish census of 2011, 258 people stated Boyko as a national-ethnic identity, with ...
The Komańcza Republic, [a] also known as the Eastern Lemko Republic, [b] Vyslik Republic, [c] and Lemko Republic, [d] was a short-lived microstate, an association of thirty three Lemko villages, seated in Komańcza in the east of the Lemko Region, that existed between 4 November 1918 and 24 January 1919.
Ukrainian Hutsul culture bears a resemblance to neighboring cultures of western and southwestern Ukraine, [33] [34] particularly Lemkos and Boykos. These groups also share similarities with other Slavic highlander peoples, such as the Gorals in Poland and Slovakia. [35]