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The Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) includes an entry for the village of Przedmieście Dubieckie in Dubiecko Parish.

Ritter, Karl. 1855. “Administrativ-Karte von Den Königreichen Galizien und Lodomerien.” Wien: Verlag und Eigenthum von Artaria & Co.; digital images, Polona (https://polona.pl/item-view/9341ec1b-5a4b-44a5-9f6b-a22c716faf46?page=36: accessed 30 November 2025)

Source:  Source: Sulimierski, Filip, Bronisław Chlebowski, and Władysław Walewski, eds., Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) – Warsaw 1882, Volume III, page 202.

Click on the link for a PDF copy of the first Słownik Geograficzny entry for Przedmieście Dubieckie (Dubiecko Parish). Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:

     Przedmieście 1.) Dubieckie, village, Brzozów powiat, northwest of Dubiecko (25 kilometers), on a stream flowing from below Huty Drohobycka and flowing from here to Śliwnica. It occupies a compact stream valley, surrounded by forests. It constitutes a separate gmina with the area of ​​a larger estate (4 houses, 24 residents) and has 108 houses and 688 residents., 528 Roman Catholics, 131 Greek Catholics, and 29 Jews. The gmina’s borrowing fund has 640 złotys in a. [Note: Not sure what this abbreviation means] capital. The Roman Catholic and Greek Catholic parishes are in Dubiecko. The larger estate (Countess Aleksandra Konarska) consists of 357 mórgs [in Galicia 1 morg = 1.422 acres] of arable land, 59 mórgs of meadows and gardens, 125 mórgs of pastures, and 89 mórgs of forest; the minimum land area is 631 mórgs of arable land, 50 mórgs of meadows, 125 mórgs of pastures, and 95 mórgs of forest. The soil here is rye, moderately fertile, consisting mostly of clay and silica, and in higher places of loam. It borders Kosztowa to the west, Drohohyczka to the north, and Śliwnica to the east.

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The cadastral map of the Polish village of Śliwnica (Dubiecko parish), created by officials of the Austrian Empire in 1852 is available on the website of the Polish State Archives at Szukaj w Archiwach. The files at Szukaj w Archiwach include four images that, together, form the complete map.

The Gesher Galicia Map Room includes a high-resolution version of the cadastral map of Śliwnica (Dubiecko parish) with the individual images stitched together. One of the great features of the maps in the Gesher Galicia Map Room is that the user can zoom in and out of the maps to view either an overview of the map or concentrate on the smallest details.

Śliwnica (Dubiecko parish) Cadastral Map – 1852
Dorf Sliwnica in Galizien Sanoker Kreis 1852 (State Archives in Poland);
digital images, Szukaj w Archiwach
(https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/18050215:
accessed 27 November 2025)

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The Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) does not include an entry for the village of Śliwnica in Dubiecko Parish. Furthermore, the Dictionary of Polish Place Names (Nazwy Miejscowe Polski) that would include an entry for Śliwnica has not yet been published.

Ritter, Karl. 1855. “Administrativ-Karte von Den Königreichen Galizien und Lodomerien.” Wien: Verlag und Eigenthum von Artaria & Co.; digital images, Polona (https://polona.pl/item-view/9341ec1b-5a4b-44a5-9f6b-a22c716faf46?page=36: accessed 30 November 2025)

There is, however, an entry in the Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich for the Śliwnica stream which flows through Śliwnica and Dubiecko, and this entry is shown here.

Source:  Chlebowski, Bronisław, Władysław Walewski, and Filip Sulimierski, eds., Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) – Warsaw 1889, Volume X, page 767.

Click on the link for a PDF copy of the second Słownik Geograficzny entry for Śliwnica, potok. Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:

Śliwnica, a stream, rises in the vicinity of Śliwnica, Brzozów County, on the northern side, from under the Rączyna hills (452 ​​mt). It flows northward between a hilly valley, through Śliwnica, separates Dubiecko from Przedmieście Dubiecko and flows into the San River on the left bank near the city. Its mouth lies 232 meters above sea level (general height). The length of its course is 10 km. It takes in the Drohobyczka Stream from its right bank, slightly above its mouth.

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The cadastral map of the Polish village of Hucisko Nienadowskie, created by officials of the Austrian Empire in 1852 is available on the website of the Polish State Archives at Szukaj w Archiwach. The files at Szukaj w Archiwach include five images that, together, form the complete map.

Hucisko Nienadowskie Cadastral Map – 1852
Dorf Hucisko in Galizien Przemysler Kreis 1852 (State Archives in Poland); digital images, Szukaj w Archiwach
(https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/18050397: accessed 01 December 2025)

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The Dictionary of Polish Place Names (Nazwy Miejscowe Polski) explains the origin of place names in Poland and details how the place name changed over time.

The present-day village of Hucisko Nienadowskie is located in Podkarpackie Voivodeship, 28 kilometers northwest of Przemyśl. According to Polish Place Names, the name of the village was Nienadowa cum Huciska Nienaowskie in 1735, Hucisko in 1794, Huciscko nienadowskie in 1882, and Hucisko Nienadowskie in 1966.

Source: Rymut, Kazimierz, ed., Nazwy Miejscowe Polski (Place Names of Poland) – Krakow 1997, Volume III, page 500.

Click the link for a PDF copy of the Nazwy Miejscowe Polski entry for Hucisko Nienadowskie. Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:

Hucisko Nienadowskie, village, Przemyśl, Dubiecko gmina, 28 km northwest of Przemyśl: Nienadowa cum Huciska Nienadowskie 1735 Fast 96; Hucisko 1794 Ga N1v; Hucisko nienadowskie 1882 SG III 202; Hucisko Nienadowskie, –ka –kiego, huciski 1966 UN 67, 32; jargon hućisko, –ka, hućiḽski. – Clause distinguishing it from the name of the nearby village of Nienadowa; periodically ellipsized. Lithuanian: SHGSk I 154-5; MakSk 73. BCz

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The Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) includes an entry for the village of Hucisko Nienadowskie in Dubiecko Parish.

Ritter, Karl. 1855. “Administrativ-Karte von Den Königreichen Galizien und Lodomerien.” Wien: Verlag und Eigenthum von Artaria & Co.; digital images, Polona (https://polona.pl/item-view/9341ec1b-5a4b-44a5-9f6b-a22c716faf46?page=36: accessed 30 November 2025)

Source:  Sulimierski, Filip, Bronisław Chlebowski, and Władysław Walewski, eds., Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) – Warsaw 1882, Volume III, page 202.

Click on the link for a PDF copy of the first Słownik Geograficzny entry for Hucisko Nienadowskie (Dubiecko Parish). Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:

11.) H[ucisko] Nienadowskie, a village in Przemyśl County, 32 kilometers northwest of Przemyśl and 6 kilometers northwest of the post office in Dubiecko. To the west it borders Huta Drohobycka and Drohobyczka, to the south Śliwnica and Nienadowa, to the east and north Jarosław County, namely Kramarzówka, Jodłówka, and Świebodna. The area is hilly. On the northwest side of the village, one point rises to 404 meters, and on the county border it reaches Raczyn, 452 meters. To the south of the village lies the Jodłowski Forest, with a peak 378 meters high. Through the center of the village flows the Kamionka stream, a tributary of the San, and collects all its tributaries from the right and the left bank. The larger property (owned by Count Eustachy Dembiński) comprises 98 mórgs of arable land, 3 mórgs of meadows and gardens, 28 mórgs of pastures; the peasants have 494 mórgs of arable land, 39 mórgs of meadows and gardens, 101 mórgs of pastures, and 16 mórgs of forest. According to calculations from 1869, there were 95 houses and 545 residents; according to the schematism of 1881, there are 545 residents of the Roman Catholic religion. In the manor area, there is 1 house and 12 residents. The Roman Catholic parish is in Dubiecko.

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The cadastral map of the Polish village of Dubiecko, created by officials of the Austrian Empire in 1852 is available on the website of the Polish State Archives at Szukaj w Archiwach. The files at Szukaj w Archiwach include nine images that, together, form the complete map.

Note that the village of Ruska Wieś (or Ruskawieś) occupies land on both sides of the San River, but also that the map does not show any bridge crossing the San in this area.

Ruska Wieś (Dubiecko Parish) Cadastral Map – 1852
Stadt Dubiecko in Galizien Sanoker Kreis 1852 (State Archives in Poland); digital images, Szukaj w Archiwach
(https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/18050215: accessed 02 December 2025)

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Older maps of the area around Dubiecko, Poland (such as the 1855 map below) clearly show the location of the village of Ruska Wieś across the San River from Dubiecko. However, current maps, (such as those on https://www.google.com/maps and https://mapa.szukacz.pl/) show no village called Ruska Wieś where it had appeared on 19th-century maps.

Ritter, Karl. 1855. “Administrativ-Karte von Den Königreichen Galizien und Lodomerien.” Wien: Verlag und Eigenthum von Artaria & Co.; digital images, Polona (https://polona.pl/item-view/9341ec1b-5a4b-44a5-9f6b-a22c716faf46?page=36: accessed 30 November 2025)

Nazwy Miejscowe Polski (Polish Place Names) has two brief entries about the village of Ruska Wieś in Dubiecko parish:

Source:  Rymut, Kazimierz, ed., Nazwy Miejscowe Polski (Polish Place Names) – Krakow 1997, Volume 11, page 450.

Source:  Rymut, Kazimierz, Barbara Czopek-Kopciuch, and Urszula Bijak, eds., Nazwy Miejscowe Polski (Polish Place Names) – Krakow 2015, Volume X11, page 68.

Both of these brief entries indicate that a village called either Ruska Wieś or Dubiecko Ruskie is now known as Wybrzeże. Unfortunately, the volume of Nazwy Miejscowe Polski (Polish Place Names) that would provide details about the multiple names of the village of Wybrzeże has not yet been published.

The Polish Wikipedia entry on Wybrzeże states that the village was originally called Dubiecko, from the 15th century until 31 Jul 1947 it was called Ruska Wieś, and from 03 Sep 1949 it was called Brzeżyna.

Copyright © 2025 by Stephen J. Danko

The Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) includes an entry for the village of Ruska Wieś in Dubiecko Parish.

Ritter, Karl. 1855. “Administrativ-Karte von Den Königreichen Galizien und Lodomerien.” Wien: Verlag und Eigenthum von Artaria & Co.; digital images, Polona (https://polona.pl/item-view/9341ec1b-5a4b-44a5-9f6b-a22c716faf46?page=36: accessed 30 November 2025)

Source:  Chlebowski, Bronisław, Władysław Walewski, and Filip Sulimierski, eds., Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) – Warsaw 1889, Volume X, page 30.

Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Słownik Geograficzny entry for Ruska Wieś (Dubiecko Parish). Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:

2.) RuskaWieś, Ruthenian Ruskoje Selo, village, Brzozów powiat, on the right bank of the San, which bends here, bypassing the hill near Dubiecko (2 kilometers) and surrounds the village on three sides (from the west, north, and east). From the south, the village is surrounded by a forest on the Dział hills (414 residents) and Iskańska mountain (379 meters high). There is an island on the San. On the left side of the river lies part of the village with the parish church of St. Michael and the buildings of a larger estate. Elevation above sea level 290 meters and on the bank 232 meters. Part of the right bank of the San borders to the south with Polchowa and Iskań, the part on the left bank to the south with Podbukowina, to the west with Bachórzec and to the north with Dubiecko. The village has 107 houses (5 on the manor area) and 594 residents; 42 Roman Catholics, 539 Greek Catholics and 34 Jews. The larger land (Countess Jadwiga Weissenwolf) has 295 arable fields, 22 meadows and gardens, 51 pastures and 287 mórgs of forest; the smaller land has 436 arable fields, 23 meadows, 86 pastures, and 4 mórgs of forest. There is a primary school here. The Greek Catholic parish belongs to the Przemyśl district, Bircza deanery, and encompasses Polchowa, Płonno, and Podbukowina. The soil is fertile and silty. M. Maciszewski

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The Dictionary of Polish Place Names (Nazwy Miejscowe Polski) explains the origin of place names in Poland and details how the place name changed over time.

The present-day town of Dubiecko in Podkarpackie Voivodeship was established in the year 1407 under Magdeburg Law. According to Polish Place Names, the new town took its name from a neighboring village called Dubiecko, and the former village of Dubicko is now known as Wybrzeże.

The name Dubiecko originates from the Ukrainian word дубец, meaning young oak, oak rod, twig, or rod. Through the years, the spelling of the town name appeared as Dubetsko in 1408, Dubeczco in 1426, oppidum Dubiecko in 1441, Dubyeczko in 1515, and finally as Dubiecko in 1589, 1794, 1881, and 1966.

Source: Rymut, Kazimierz, ed., Nazwy Miejscowe Polski (Place Names of Poland) – Krakow 1997, Volume II, page 450.

Click the link for a PDF copy of the Nazwy Miejscowe Polski entry for Dubiecko. Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:

Dubiecko, village, formerly a town, Przemyśl Voivodeship, Dubiecko gmina, 11 km east of Dynów: Dubetsko 1408 AGZ VIII 57; Dubeczco 1426 Łp I nr 1754; oppidum [oppidum is the Latin word for town] Dubiecko 1441 Sng II 137; Dubyeczko 1515, Dubiecko 1589 ZDz XVIII/1, 149, 60; Dubiecko 1794 Ga J1v; Dubiecko 1881 SG II 187; Dubiecko, -ka, dubiecki 1966 UN 67, 10. – The name was taken over from the name of the village of Dubiecko <*Dubiecsko, Ukrainian: Dubecsko, today [called] Wybrzeże, next to which a township under Magdeburg law was founded in the year 1407. The name is from the Ukrainian word dubec ‘young oak’, also ‘oak rod, twig, rod’, proto-Slavic *dǫbъcъ Spsł IV 188-9, with the suffix -sk-. Lithuanian: MakSk 60; RospSEMiG 79. BCz

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