Binczarowa

Infobox Settlement
official_name=Binczarowa
other_name=Bolcarjova or Borcalova (Rusyn)
other_name=Bil'tsareva (Ukrainian)
native_name=
settlement_type=village
timezone=
UTC_offset=+1
timezone_DST=
UTC_offset_DST=+2
subdivision_type=Country
subdivision_name=Poland
subdivision_type1=Voivodeship
subdivision_name1=Lesser Poland Voivodeship
subdivision_type2=County
subdivision_name2=Nowy Sącz
subdivision_type3=Commune
subdivision_name3=Gmina Grybów
population)total=1250
latd=49
latm=34
latNS=N
longd=20
longm=28
longEW=E
elevation_m=597
elevation_ft=1961

Binczarowa IPA-pl| [|b|i|n|cz|a|r|o|w|a|] (Rusyn:"Bolcarjova" or "Borcalova"; Ukrainian "Bil'tsareva") is a village in southern Poland.

History

Binczarowa was first mentioned in Polish history in 1365, under the name Bibyczareban. In 1531, the Rusyn Ivan Trukhanovych (Polish: Jan Truchanowski) obtained the town and Polish nobility. It is a Lemko village in the western Lemkivshchyna. It was the birthplace of Jaroslav Kacmarcyk, president of the Lemko-Rusyn Republic, and of Metodyj Trochanovskij, who published a Lemko grammar.

After the First Partition of Poland in 1772, it was part of the Galician district of Grybow, and part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was briefly independent from December 5, 1918, until March, 1920, as part of the Lemko-Rusyn Republic (Ruska Narodna Respublika Lemkiu, or Ruska Lemkivsa Respublyka).

After World War II, it was depopulated by the Polish government in Operation Wisła in 1947.

Geography

Binczarowa occupies a mountain valley in the Polish commune of Grybów, county of Nowy Sącz, Lesser Poland Voivodeship. It lies between the towns of Florynka to the east and Bogusza in the west.

Culture and Religion

The town is the site of St. Dymitr's Church, built in 1760.