Komańcza Republic
short-lived state
The Komańcza Republic, also known as the Eastern Lemko Republic, Vyslik Republic, Wisłok Republic and Lemko Republic, was a short-lived self-governing polity consisting of 33 Lemko villages centered on Komańcza in the eastern Lemko Region. It existed between 4 November 1918 and 24 January 1919.
The republic was led by the Reverend Panteleymon Shpylka, who served as head of the County Ukrainian National Council (Ukrainian: голова Повітової Української Національної Ради).
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 river, Polish.
History
After Dissolution of Austria-Hungary on western Ukraine first outbreaks of the liberation struggle appeared. Due to the fact that in Sanok it was impossible to establish a povit UNR, because the Polish army was stationed there, decided to create a Rada Sanoksky povit in Vyslok, which became the center of the national liberation struggle in Eastern Lemko.
Since November 1918 р. Parson in village Vyslik Velyky.
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