Sanok
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| Country | Poland |
| Voivodeship | Subcarpathian |
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41,000 50,000 /km² |
| City rights | 1339 |
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Sanok, (Ukrainian: Сянiк, Latin: Sanocum, German: Saanig, Yiddish: Sonik, in full The Royal Free City of Sanok, Polish: Królewskie Wolne Miasto Sanok), part of The Land of Sanok (Polish: Ziemia Sanocka, and Ruthenian Voivodeship), is a town in south-eastern Poland with 41,261 inhabitants (2005).
Sanok is situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Krosno Voivodship (1975-1998).
This historic city is situated on San River at the foot of Zamek Hill in Little Poland (Małopolska) region, lies in a wooded, hilly area on the highway (Nr. DK28) from Ustrzyki Dolne to Wadowice (340 km. away).
The gord of Sanok in mentioned first time in Hypatian Codex (Red Gords) in 1150. It was given the Magdeburg law by Boleslaus George II of Halych in 1339.
Sanok contains an open air museum in the Biala Gora district, where examples of architecture from all of the region's main ethnic groups have been moved and carefully reassembled in a skansen evoking everyday rural life in the 1800s.
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[edit] Personalia
- Sebastian Herburt
- Mikołaj Kamieniecki
- Jerzy Mniszech
- Andrzej Bobola
- Meir Shapiro
- Zygmunt Łempicki
- Kazimierz Świtalski
- Jacob Avigdor
- Stepan Popel
- Zdzisław Beksiński
- Ryszard Pacławski
- Szymon Pawłowski
[edit] Members of Parliament elected from Sanok constituency, 2005
- Marian Daszyk (LPR)
- Janusz Kołodziej (LPR)
- Stanisław Zając (PIS)
- Marek Kuchciński (PIS)
- Andrzej Ćwierz (PIS)
- Mieczysław Golba (PIS)
- Wojciech Pomajda (SLD)
- Elżbieta Łukacijewska (PO)
- Tomasz Kulesza (PO)
- Mieczysław Kasprzak (PSL)
- Janusz Maksymiuk (Samoobrona)
- Andrzej Mazurkiewicz (PIS)
- Stanisław Piotrowicz (PIS)
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