Stubienko

Stubienko
Village
Ukrainian Catholic church erected in 1849
Stubienko
Coordinates: 49°55′N 22°56′E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Subcarpathian
County	Przemyśl
Gmina	Stubno

Stubienko [stuˈbjɛŋkɔ] or Stibenets) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stubno, within Przemyśl County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) north-west of Stubno, 20 km (12 mi) north-east of Przemyśl, and 68 km (42 mi) east of the regional capital Rzeszów.

History

Until 1772 the village was part of Przemyśl County, Ruthenian Voivodeship.

In 1880 the village belonged to Przemyśl county of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the village had 107 houses and 564 inhabitants.

In 1934–1939. the village belonged to the gmina of Stubno, Przemyśl County, Lviv Voivodeship.

During World War II, on September 12, 1939, the village was occupied by the German army, but in accordance with the Nazi-Soviet pact the village was transferred to the Red Army soon afterward. On 27 November, by the resolution of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR, the village within the county was included in the newly formed Drohobych region, and on January 17, 1940 — in the Medicovsky district.

In June 1941, after the beginning of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, the village was occupied by the Germans. In July 1944, Soviet troops captured the village, and in March 1945, the village was transferred to communist Poland. Ukrainians were ethnically cleansed from the village and deported by Soviet-installed Polish communist authorities to the Ukrainian SSR as part of Operation Vistula; the rest in 1947 were deported to German land annexed by Poland.

In 1975-1998 the village belonged to Przemyśl Voivodeship.