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Krzywcza
קשיוצ'ה
Poland
Maps and Gazetteers

Krzywcza is in southeastern Poland on the San River just ten miles west of Przemyśl on route 884, an east-west road from Przemyśl to Domaradz that also passes through Dubiecko. It is the seat of the Gmina Krzywcza, a rural administrative district in Przemyśl County (Powiat Przemyski), Subcarpathian Province (Podkarpackie Voivodeship). Before World War I Krzywcza was in western Galicia in the Austrian Empire. Between World War I and World War II, it was in Poland in the Przemyśl District in the province of Lwów.

Map of Poland with Podkarpacie Region (Subcarpthian Province) and
City of Przemyśl in southeast near border with Ukraine
Map from polish.study-time.org

JewishGen Locality Page for Krzywcza. Includes MapQuest map

Location: Poland, 49°48' N 22°33' E, ten miles west of Przemyśl, near the border with the Ukraine

Other Names: Krzywcza [Pol], Kriftch [Yid], Krzywcza nad Sanem, Krzywcza an San, Krzywcza am San, Krzywcze, Kshivcha, Krivich

Nearest Large City: Przemyśl, ten miles east of Krzywcza

from JewishGen Resource Mapping

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AUSTRIAN EMPIRE: GALICIA

Detail of Map from the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection,
Austrian Empire [Galicia]. Engraved by J. & W.W. Warr, published by H.S. Tanner, Philadelphia, 1836.
Image copyright © 2010 by Cartography Associates, licensed under a Creative Commons License

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Detail (main route from Rzeszow to Lemberg, as well as route from Dukla to Przemysl)

Detail of Map from the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (eastern sheet), Keith Johnston, F.R.S.E. Keith Johnson's General Atlas. Printed and Published by W. & A.K. Johnston, Edinburgh & London, (1879)
Image copyright © 2006 by Cartography Associates, licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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3rd Military Mapping Survey of Austria-Hungary, c1910, detail.
Krzwczya (on the San River): 10 miles west of Przemysl and 8 miles east of Dubiecko

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LINKS TO MAPS AND GAZETTEERS

Markt Krzywcza in Galizien Przemyśler Kreis 1852 [Mapa miasteczka Krzywcza w Galicji w obwodzie przemyskim] - On the Archiwum Państwowe w Przemyślu website - Cadastral Map of Krzywcza (in sections) (Fond 126) in the Polish State Archives Przemyśl

Galicia 1875 On the Lviv (Leopol, Lemberg, Lwow) JewishGen KehilaLinks website. Krzywcza is not identified on the map, but can be located 10 miles west of Przemyśl and 8 miles east of Dubiecko.

Galicia 1882 (From the FEEFHS Map Library) From Blackie & Sons Atlas (Edinburgh, 1882; Krzywcza is not identified on the map, but can be located 10 miles west of Przemyśl and 8 miles east of Dubiecko.

Eastern Hungary and Galicia 1908 (From the FEEFHS Map Library) From Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetteer, London, 1909.

German Topographic, Transport, and Administrative Map of Poland 1939 Second Republic of Poland, made by the German Reich from a Polish original (from the Gesher Galicia Map Room)

Detail of Topographical Map showing location of Krzywcza and surrounding communities, (from the Lemko webite; Information on Maps)

Krzywcza nad Sanem article in Slownik Geograficzny the geographical dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavic countries, (Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, 1880-1902, Tom IV, pp. 801-802.

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