Jabłonki

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Jabłonki
Village
Jabłonki
Coordinates: 49°16′N 22°17′E / 49.267°N 22.283°E / 49.267; 22.283
Country  Poland
Voivodeship Subcarpathian
County Lesko
Gmina Baligród
Population 110
Monument to Karol Świerczewski in Jabłonki

Jabłonki [jaˈbwɔŋkʲi] (Ukrainian: Яблінки, Yablinky) is a village near the Bieszczady mountains, in the administrative district of Gmina Baligród, within Lesko County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) south of Baligród, 24 km (15 mi) south of Lesko, and 88 km (55 mi) south of the regional capital Rzeszów.[1] The village has a population of 110.

It was in Jabłonki that on March 28, 1947, Poland's General Karol Świerczewski was killed in an ambush organised by Ukrainian Insurgent Army.

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Coordinates: 49°16′N 22°17′E / 49.267°N 22.283°E / 49.267; 22.283


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