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]