Sanok (PL)

Sanok (in full "The Royal Free City of Sanok", Polish: Królewskie Wolne Miasto Sanok; Latin: Sanocum; Ukrainian: Сянiк, Syanik; Yiddish: סאניק, Sonik) is a town in south-eastern Poland, capital of Sanok County in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship ( in the Krosno Voivodeship 1975–1998). Previously, in the Ruthenian Voivodeship (1340–1772), which was part of the Lesser Poland province, and in the Empire of Austria Province of Galicia until 1918, head of a Bezirk. In 981 the gord, then inhabited by the Slavic tribe of Lendians, was made a part of Land of Czerwień , when Vladimir I of Kiev took the area over on the way into Poland. In 1018 it returned to Poland, 1031 back to Rus', in 1340 Casimir III of Poland recovered it. The gord of Sanok is mentioned for the first time in Hypatian Codex in 1150. It was given the Magdeburg law by Boleslaw-Yuri II of Galicia in 1339.

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Postmark in Poland

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Postmarks in Austria-Hungary era (1867-1918)

Antiqua circle (Klein type aE) on a 1867 issue.

Single circle cancel on a Newspaper stamp in 1890. Klein type gEj.

Schraffen stamp in 1906. Klein type gSje.

Postmarks in Austrian Empire Galicia province

The SANOK post office opened before 1850, District of Sanok.

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