{"id":23919,"date":"2025-12-24T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=23919"},"modified":"2025-12-20T12:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:44:09","slug":"the-dictionary-of-polish-place-names-komancza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/23919","title":{"rendered":"The Dictionary of Polish Place Names \u2013 Koma\u0144cza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Dictionary of Polish Place Names (Nazwy Miejscowe Polski<\/em>) explains the origin of place names in Poland and details how the place name changed over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume V of Nazwy Miejscowe Polski<\/em> lists one place called Koma\u0144cza. The village is currently in Podkarpackie Voivodeship. Szukaj w Archiwach has scanned images of birth\/marriage, and death records from 1784-1830 + 1840<\/a>, and 1830-1851<\/a> for the Greek Catholic Church in Koma\u0144cza, with branches in Czystohorb and Do\u0142\u017cyca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nazwy Miejscowe Polski<\/em> indicates that Czystogarb was in the Koma\u0144cza Gmina, Krosno Voivodeship in the years 1975-1998, and is 25 kilometers southwest of Zag\u00f3rz. Mentions of the village include “to locate a new village on the river Komanycza<\/em>, which village will be called Crziemyenna<\/em> … into the Comancza<\/em> river” in 1512, Komancza<\/em> in 1524, “from Koma\u0144cza<\/em>, in Koma\u0144cza<\/em>” in 1561, from Koma\u0144cza<\/em> in 1638, “village of Komancza<\/em>” in 1786, Komancza<\/em> in 1794, Koman\u010da<\/em> in 1860, Koma\u0144cza<\/em> in 1883, and Koma\u0144cza, -czy, komaniecki<\/em> in 1966.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The name of the village may originate with the name of the river Koma\u0144cza<\/em>. Alternatively, the name may be derived from Komanec<\/em> a member of the Turkic Ko(u)man<\/em> tribe, also known as Polovtsy, who lived in the territory of Rus’ in the 11th-13th centuries. It may also be derived from the personal name Komanec<\/em> (Koman<\/em>, a personal name recorded in the 15th century in the nearby village of Szczawne). The alternative name Krzemienna<\/em> is from the adjective krzemienny<\/em> ‘stony’.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Source: Rymut, Kazimierz, ed., Nazwy Miejscowe Polski (Place Names of Poland) – Krakow 2003, Volume V, page 77.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click the link for a PDF copy of the Nazwy Miejscowe Polski<\/em> entry for Koma\u0144cza<\/a>. Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Koma\u0144cza<\/strong>, village, Krosno voivodeship, Koma\u0144cza gmina, 25 kilometers southwest of Zag\u00f3rz: to locate a new village on the river Komanycza<\/em>, which village will be called Crziemyenna<\/em> … into the Comancza<\/em> river 1512 Fast 156, note 655; Komancza<\/em> 1524 Matr IV\/3, no. 23222; from Koma\u0144cza<\/em>, in Koma\u0144cza<\/em> 1561 RZ\u0142 61; from Koma\u0144cza<\/em> 1638 RZ\u0142 215; village of Komancza<\/em> 1786 MJ 19, XV, 42, 39; Komancza<\/em> 1794 Ga R2; Koman\u010da<\/em> 1860 Sch 119; Koma\u0144cza<\/em> 1883 SG IV 297; Koma\u0144cza, -czy, komaniecki<\/em> 1966 UN 71, 32. – From the river name Koma\u0144cza<\/em>. The name may derive from *Komanec<\/em> ‘a member of the Turkic Ko(u)man<\/em> tribe, also known as Polovtsy, who lived in the territory of Rus’ in the 11th-13th centuries’ MakSk 88 or from the personal name *Komanec<\/em> (: Koman<\/em>, a personal name recorded in the 15th century in the nearby village of Szczawne Fast 215), with the suffix -ja. Lemkos say koma\u0144cza, kuma\u0144cza<\/em>. The alternative name Krzemienna<\/em> is from the adjective krzemienny<\/em> ‘stony’. Lithuanian: MakSk 88-9; Rieg\u0141emk 190; Borek, –\u044cn<\/em>– 116; RospSEMiG 154.
Barbara Czopek-Kopciuch<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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. Volume V of Nazwy Miejscowe Polski lists one place called Koma\u0144cza. The village is … 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-23919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-6dN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23919","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=23919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23963,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23919\/revisions\/23963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}