Komańcza Republic Explained

Conventional Long Name:Komancza Republic
Native Name:Ukrainian: Команча́нська Респу́бліка
Common Name:Komańcza Republic
P1:Austria-Hungary
Flag P1:Flag of Austria-Hungary (1867-1918).svg
S1:Second Polish Republic
Flag S1:Flag of Poland.svg
Capital:Komańcza,
Wisłok Wielki (de facto)
Common Languages:Ukrainian
Government Type:Republic
Leader1:Panteleymon Shpylka
Title Leader:Head of the Council
Year Leader1:1918 - 1919
Era:World War I
Date Start:4 November
Year Start:1918
Date End:24 January
Year End:1919
Stat Year1:1919
Stat Pop1:circa 18,000

The Komańcza Republic, also known as the Eastern Lemko Republic, Vyslik Republic, and Lemko Republic, was a short-lived microstate, an association of thirty three Lemko villages, seated in Komańcza in the east of the Lemko Region, that existed between 4 November 1918 and 24 January 1919. It was headed by Head of the Council (голова Повітової Української Національної Ради, Head of the Ukrainian National County Council) Rev. Panteleymon Shpylka.

Unlike the contemporaneous Lemko Republic to its west (which sought unification with the Russian Soviet Republic), the Komancza Republic planned to unite with the West Ukrainian People's Republic in an independent Ukrainian state. However, this was suppressed by the Polish government as part of the Polish–Ukrainian War.

The Treaty of Saint-Germain made Galicia west of the San Polish.[1]

List of villages constituting the Republic

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Magocsi . Paul Robert . Paul Robert Magocsi . Historical Atlas of Central Europe . revised and expanded . A History of East Central Europe . 1 . 1993. 2002 . University of Washington Press . Seattle . 0-295-98146-6 . 47097699 . 127 . Central Europe 1918-1923 .