| Besko | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Total Type: | |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Name1: | Subcarpathian |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Sanok |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Besko |
| Coordinates: | 49.5833°N 78°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Population Total: | 3700 |
| Website: | http://www.besko.pl |
Besko is a village in Sanok County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Besko.[1] It lies approximately 20km (10miles) west of Sanok and 510NaN0 south of the regional capital Rzeszów.
As a result of the first of Partitions of Poland (Treaty of St-Petersburg dated 5 July 1772, the Galicia area was attributed to the Habsburg Monarchy.[2] When a postoffice was opened in 1890,[3] the town was in the Sanok Bezirkshauptmannschaft.
For more details, see the article Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria.