Jabłonki | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Subcarpathian |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Lesko |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Baligród |
Coordinates: | 49.2667°N 39°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Population Total: | 110 |
Jabłonki is a village near the Bieszczady mountains, in the administrative district of Gmina Baligród, within Lesko County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately 10km (10miles) south of Baligród, 240NaN0 south of Lesko, and 880NaN0 south of the regional capital Rzeszów.[1]
The Church named Pokrovy Presviatoi Bogoroditsi of the village Jablonki was built in the first half of the 18th century. The first church book dated to 1786 had following family names - Ilkiw, Rabyk, Petryk, Kawchak, Cygan, Golyk, Melnyk, Musula, etc.
It was in Jabłonki that on 28 March 1947, Poland's General Karol Świerczewski was killed in an ambush organised by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). Three days later 30 wounded soldiers of Border Protection Corps were murdered by UPA partisans.