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ⓘ is a village in Gmina Istebna, Cieszyn County in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. The village is situated in Beskid Śląski mountain range, near to the borders with the Czech Republic and Slovakia, in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia.
The name is of topographic origins and is derived from sycamore trees (Polish: jawor) and is a diminutive form of jaworzyna.[1]
History
The village was first mentioned in 1621 as Jaworzinka.fee of Kingdom of Bohemia and a part of the Habsburg monarchy.
After
Protestants (19 or 1.1%).[3] The village was also traditionally inhabited by Silesian Gorals, speaking Jablunkov dialect
.
After
Czechoslovakia. Jaworzynka was then annexed by Nazi Germany at the beginning of World War II. After the war it was restored to Poland
.
Emigration
Many families from the Jaworzyka and Istebna area emigrated to Sheridan, Wyoming to work in underground coal mines along the Tongue River.[4][5][6]
Notable people
- Mateusz Haratyk, cross-country skier
References
- ^ ISSN 0208-6336.
- ISBN 978-83-926929-5-9.
- ^ Piątkowski, Kazimierz (1918). Stosunki narodowościowe w Księstwie Cieszyńskiem (in Polish). Cieszyn: Macierz Szkolna Księstwa Cieszyńskiego. pp. 266, 285.
- ^ Oh, Poland! A Countryside Pictorial Volume One By Victoria Malyurek https://books.google.com/books?id=fq9GDwAAQBAJ&dq=istebna+sheridan+wyoming&pg=PA5
- ^ https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/coal-camps-sheridan-county
- ^ Gorska, Magda. “From the Triplevillage (Trojwies) to America: Facts about Highlanders' Emigration From Istebna, Koniakow, and Jaworzynka.” Draft of master’s thesis, accessed Feb. 12, 2013.
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