{"id":23763,"date":"2025-12-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=23763"},"modified":"2025-12-01T15:26:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T23:26:45","slug":"the-polish-village-of-ruska-wies-dubiecko-parish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/23763","title":{"rendered":"The Polish Village of Ruska Wie\u015b (Dubiecko Parish)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Kr\u00f3lestwa Polskiego i Innych Kraj\u00f3w S\u0142owia\u0144skich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries)<\/em> includes an entry for the village of Ruska Wie\u015b<\/a> in Dubiecko Parish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ritter, Karl. 1855. \u201cAdministrativ-Karte von Den K\u00f6nigreichen Galizien und Lodomerien.\u201d Wien: Verlag und Eigenthum von Artaria & Co.; digital images, Polona<\/em> (https:\/\/polona.pl\/item-view\/9341ec1b-5a4b-44a5-9f6b-a22c716faf46?page=36<\/a>: accessed 30 November 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n

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Source:\u00a0 Chlebowski, Bronis\u0142aw, W\u0142adys\u0142aw Walewski, and Filip Sulimierski, eds., S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Kr\u00f3lestwa Polskiego i Innych Kraj\u00f3w S\u0142owia\u0144skich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) \u2013 Warsaw 1889, Volume X, page 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click on the link for a PDF copy of the S\u0142ownik Geograficzny entry for Ruska Wie\u015b (Dubiecko Parish)<\/a>. Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2.) RuskaWie\u015b<\/em><\/strong>, Ruthenian Ruskoje Selo<\/em>, village, Brzoz\u00f3w 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 Dzia\u0142 hills (414 residents) and Iska\u0144ska 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 Iska\u0144, the part on the left bank to the south with Podbukowina, to the west with Bach\u00f3rzec 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 m\u00f3rgs of forest; the smaller land has 436 arable fields, 23 meadows, 86 pastures, and 4 m\u00f3rgs of forest. There is a primary school here. The Greek Catholic parish belongs to the Przemy\u015bl district, Bircza deanery, and encompasses Polchowa, P\u0142onno, and Podbukowina. The soil is fertile and silty. M. Maciszewski<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Kr\u00f3lestwa Polskiego i Innych Kraj\u00f3w S\u0142owia\u0144skich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) includes an entry for the village of Ruska Wie\u015b in Dubiecko Parish. Ritter, Karl. 1855. \u201cAdministrativ-Karte von Den K\u00f6nigreichen Galizien und … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-6bh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23763"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23820,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23763\/revisions\/23820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}