Stary Dzików

Stary Dzików
Village
Catholic church in Stary Dzików Catholic church in Stary Dzików
Stary Dzików
Coordinates:
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Subcarpathian
County	Lubaczów
Gmina	Stary Dzików
Population	1,320

Stary Dzików [ˈstarɨ ˈd͡ʑikuf] (Ukrainian: Старий Диків, Staryi Dykiv) is a village in Lubaczów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Stary Dzików. It lies approximately 17 kilometres (11 mi) north-west of Lubaczów and 71 km (44 mi) east of the regional capital Rzeszów.

The village has a population of 1,320.The name of the village has derived from a large number or pray animals such as wild boars (PL: Dzik). Therefore, the authorities of the district consider the region to be exotic and have adopted image of hummingbird on their opening page of the website.

The first hint about Stary Dzików appears in the documents dated back to 1469, when the village belonged to the Ramsz family. At the beginning of the 16th century it joined the jarosław goods belonging to the Russian provincial governor Stanisław Odrowąż. Also in the 16th century the village was for short time king’s property, then district belonged to the following noble families: Sieniawscy, Czartoryscy, Zamoyscy and Tarnowscy. It is notified that in 18th century Stary Dzików revoke a town charter, whose provincial buildings survived to this day. Before the years of the World War II, Stary Dzików was a populous village amounted to 2500 people where one could see the harmonious life of three nations: Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish. However, between 1939- 1945 Nazis have taken the Jews away and destroyed the synagogue.

The Ukrainian community was displaced in 1947 and the only reminding sign of their presence in this region is the Unite Church dated back to 1904.

In 2007 Andrzej Wajda, famous Polish movie producer, used this village’s sight sees in his latest movie “Katyń”.