Prełuki
village in Subcarpathian, Poland
Prełuki [prɛˈwukʲi] (Lemko Rusyn: Прелукы, Prelukŷ), formerly known in Polish as Przełęczki or Przełęki (16th century), later Przełęcz (1977–1981), is a hamlet and former village located in the administrative district of Gmina Komańcza, within Sanok County, in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship (province) of south-eastern Poland, close to the border with Slovakia. It is part of the sołectwo (village council) of nearby Komańcza.
The majority population were Lemko Rusyn before World War II and Operation Vistula.
Location
Prełuki is located on the Osława River, a left tributary of the San River, 15 km from the border with Slovakia, 7 km southeast of the gmina's administrative center of Komańcza, 21 km south of the county administrative center of Sanok, and 75 km south of Rzeszów, the administrative center of the Podkarpackie Voivodeship.
The international walking trail "In the footsteps of the Good Soldier Švejk" and the Main Beskid Trail (the section between Komańcza and Duszatyn) both run through the village.
In terms of the physico-geographical regionalization of Poland, the hamlet is located on the border of the Low Beskids with the Western Bieszczady mountains. This also forms the boundary of the Cisna-Wetlina Landscape Park, located immediately to Prełuki's east. The hamlet is also located close to the Osława Gorge Nature Reserve at Duszatyn as well as the Duszatyn Lakes, a well-known attraction in the area.
Name
The settlement's name derives from the Old Polish word Przełęk, meaning "arable field" or "farmland"; in 1557 it is named as Przełęczki, and later as Przełęki, and in 1867 under the Ruthenized name Pryłuki.
During the communist Polish government campaign in 1977 to change names of villages that were once populated by Lemkos, Boykos, and Ukrainians – before resettlements following World War II and under Operation Vistula – the village was renamed Przełęcz, a calque of the Ruthenized name, shifting the meaning to "mountain pass" and the number from plural to singular.
The public source identifies “Prełuki” as village in Subcarpathian, Poland. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Prełuki, village and Subcarpathian.
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