Sanok Land
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Sanok Land (Polish: ziemia sanocka) was a historical administrative division unit (ziemia) of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the 14th-18th centuries (- 1772 ). It consisted of land that now belongs to the powiats (counties) of: Sanok, Brzozów, Lesko and partially Krosno and Rzeszów.
Ziemia Sanocka was a part of the Ruthenian Voivodeship with the capital at Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine).
[edit] Famous people
- Artur Andrus - journalist
- Tomasz Beksiński - journalist
- Zdzisław Beksiński - painter
- Andrzej Bobola - Saint
- Piotr Burzyński - lawyer
- Adam Didur - tenor
- Henryk Dobrzański - Hubal the first partisan of WWII
- Adam Fastnacht - historian
- Jan Gniewosz - painter
- Leon Goetz - painter
- Jan Grodek - rector
- Grzegorz z Sanoka - bishop
- Zygmunt Kaczkowski - poet
- Bronisław Prugar-Ketling - general
- Feliks Kiryk - historian
- Ignacy Krasicki - Primate,
- Marian Kruczek - artist sculptor
- Julian Krzyżanowski - filologist
- Michał Leszczyński - painter
- Władysław Lisowski - painter
- Ryszard Pacławski - harcmistrz ZHP, the highest scouting instructor rank
- Anastazy Jakub Pankiewicz OFM - Blessed
- Marian Pankowski - author
- Jakob Karnakoewski - Duke
- Zdzisław Peszkowski -
- Onufry Poźniak - poeta
- Franciszek Prochaska - painter
- Julian Przyboś - poet
- Izydor Izaak Rabi - Nobel Prize in Physics winners
- Józef Sitarz - painter
- Jan Szelc - poet
- Janusz Szuber - poet
- Władysław Szulc - painter
- Kazimierz Świtalski - Prime Minister,
- Roman Tarkowski - artist sculptor
- Eugeniusz Tomaszewski - prof.
- Adam Vetulani - historian
- Tadeusz Bolesław Vetulani - polish scientists
- Katarzyna Wójcicka -
- Władysław Zaleski - President of Supreme Chamber of Control
- Władysław Stanisław Karnakoewski - Ambassador
