Uchanie

Uchanie
Village
Uchanie is located in Poland
Uchanie
Uchanie
Coordinates: 50°54′30″N 23°39′00″E / 50.90833°N 23.65000°E / 50.90833; 23.65000
Country Poland
VoivodeshipLublin
CountyHrubieszów
GminaUchanie

Uchanie [uˈxaɲɛ] is a village in Hrubieszów County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.[1] It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Uchanie. It lies approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) north-west of Hrubieszów and 84 km (52 mi) south-east of the regional capital Lublin.

Upon the German invasion of Poland in 1939, Uchanie had a population of 1,161 Jews. The Jewish population was sent to nearby Hrubieszów, from where they were sent to the Sobibór extermination camp. The Jewish community then ceased to exist.[2]

According to the data of the ethnographic expedition of 1869-1870 under the leadership of Pavlo Chubynskyi, Greek Catholics who spoke Ukrainian lived in this village[3]

Between the years of 1928-1932, the Polish government ordered the destruction of the local Orthodox church as part of a large-scale campaign to destroy Ukrainian churches in the Kholm region and Podlasie.[4]

Church of the Assumption, before 1900

References

  1. ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  2. ^ "Virtual Sztetl". 2018-07-21.
  3. ^ "Труды этнографическо-статистической экспедиции в Западно-Русский Край", Вікіпедія (in Ukrainian), 2024-08-05, retrieved 2024-10-10 P. 364-365
  4. ^ "Холмщина і Підляшшя (1997)". irbis-nbuv.gov.ua. Retrieved 2024-10-10.


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