Krosno (in full The Royal Free City of Krosno, Polish: Krlewskie Wolne Miasto Krosno) is a town in south-eastern Poland with 49,400 inhabitants (1995).
Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodship (since 1999), previously capital of Krosno Voivodship (1975-1998).
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Krosno Odrza?skie (German: Crossen an der Oder) is a city in Western Poland with 12,500 inhabitants (2002), situated in the Lubusz Voivodship (since 1999), previously capital of Zielona Góra Voivodship (1975-1998). (Note: Do not confuse Krosno Odrza?skie with Krosno in the Subcarpathian Voivodship.)
Crosno was first mentioned in 1005 and was chartered as a town in 1201. Due to its important strategic location it played an important role in the protective system at the western borders of Poland during the 11th to 13th centuries. A stone castle was built by the Silesian Piasts in the 13th century. When the Piast dynasty
Jas?o is a town in south-eastern Poland with 38,900 inhabitants (1995). Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Krosno Voivodship (1975-1998).
Dukla is a village and an eponymous municipality in southeastern Poland, in the Subcarpathian Voivodship. The village is populated by 2,200 people, while the total population is 17,113, in 26 other villages. The total area of the municipality is 332,5 km˛.
The Dukla mountain pass is located in the Carpathians, a few kilometers south of Dukla, on the border with Slovakia.
The city of Krosno is located to the north of Dukla.
Sanok (in full The Royal Free City of Sanok, Polish: Królewskie Wolne Miasto Sanok) is a town in south-eastern Poland with 41,400 inhabitants (1995).
Sanok contains an open air museum in the Biala Gora district, where specimens of every kind of country building from all the region's main ethnic groups (Bojkowie, Lemkowie, Dolinianie and Pogorzanie) have been moved here and carefully reassembled in a skansen evoking rural everyday life in the 1800s.
Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Krosno Voivodship (1975-1998).
Ska?a is a town in southern Poland, situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Krakow Voivodship (1975-1998).
