Jabłonki
village in Subcarpathian, Poland
Jabłonki [jaˈbwɔŋkʲi] is a village near the Bieszczady mountains, in the administrative district of Gmina Baligród, within Lesko County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland.
History
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.
“Jabłonki” enters the record as village in Subcarpathian, Poland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jabłonki, village and Subcarpathian can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Jabłonki” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jabłonki, village and Subcarpathian provides the most credible route into that argument.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2047272. Authority coordinates are 49.267, 22.283. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1786 and 1947.
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This entry incorporates text from “Jabłonki” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.