Wola Piotrowa

Wola Piotrowa (Lemko: Vola Petrova)
Village
The Pogórze Bukowskie is a hilly region (thus the name, Bukowsko hilly region) in Poland (Wola Piotrowa view.
Name origin: Its name comes from the west slavic dialect word Wola and Piotr, meaning exactly little village of Peter
Nickname: Piotrowa
Country Poland
Region Sanok County
District Gmina Bukowsko
River Pielnica, Sanoczek
Elevation 270 m (886 ft)
Coordinates PL 49°27′4.89″N 22°02′37.25″E / 49.4513583°N 22.0436806°E / 49.4513583; 22.0436806Coordinates: PL 49°27′4.89″N 22°02′37.25″E / 49.4513583°N 22.0436806°E / 49.4513583; 22.0436806
Area 8.8 km2 (3 sq mi)
Population 280 (31 December 2002)
Density 32 / km2 (83 / sq mi)
First mentioned 1526
Mayor sołtys Jan Hołomek
Timezone CET (UTC+1)
 - summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code 38 507
Car plate KUS, RSA
Location of Wola Piotrowa in Sanok County
Wikimedia Commons: Pogórze Bukowskie
Website: http://www.bukowsko.pl
Pentecostal church in Wala Piotrowa
Cadastral map of Wola Piotrowa. Steurbezirk Bukowsko. 1853

Wola Piotrowa [ˈvɔla pʲɔˈtrɔva] (Ukrainian: Воля Петрова, Volia Petrova) is a village in East Małopolska in the Bukowsko Upland mountains, Bukowsko rural commune, Latin parish in Bukowsko, Protestant parish in loco.

Wola Piotrowa is about 17 miles from Sanok in southeast Poland. It is situated below the main watershed at the foot of the Słonne Mountain, and has an elevation of 340 metres. Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Krosno Voivodship (1975-1998) and Sanok district, (10 miles east of Sanok), located near the towns of Medzilaborce and Palota (in northeastern Slovakia).

Forcible Deportation (Ethnic Cleansing) of Lemkos

The history of Wola Piotrowa, which had been a mostly Lemko-Ukrainian village prior to 1946, is inextricably linked to long-standing Polish/Ukrainian ethnic disputes over the territories of Galicia and Volhynia. Soviet and Polish communist collaborators were responsible for population exchanges that occurred between 1944 and 1947. Those population exchanges, intended to achieve an ethnically cleansed post-war order in the expanded Soviet Union and in Poland, included the forcible expatriation of ethnic Ukrainians from Wola Piotrowa and other villages in Galicia. (This was part of a larger population exchange arrangement with the Soviet Union between 1945 and 1946. That agreement also involved deporting ethnic Poles from Western Ukraine, and deporting Ukrainians and Rusyns from the Lemko Region in Southeast Poland to deprive support to UPA.) After the final expulsion of ethnic Ukrainians in Wola Piotrowa in 1946 (the expulsion and burning of this village pre-dated Operation Vistula), Polish communists burned down this village (and many others) likely for the purpose of deterring the expelled Lemkos from resettling in the village. According to "Church in Ruins" by Oleh Wolodymyr Iwanusiw, Wola Piotrowa established a Greek Catholic church (tserkva) in 1921 named "St. Michael the Archangel." The church was a filial parish to the church in Karlykiv (Karlikow), St. Paraskevia (est. 1840.) According to Iwanusiw, the church in Wola Piotrowa was destroyed during the post World War II period: "The tserkva here was taken apart and the materials used for the erection of Polish collective farm facilities. Only a cross marks the spot where the temple once stood."

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