Travel Guide Leżajsk

This small historical town of 10,000 inhabitants is located 29 km north of Łancut, by road 877. In the 14th century, Leżajsk belonged to the royal estates grouped in the northeastern part of the Orthodox Ruthenian province, so it participated in the Jagiellonian plan to colonize, polonize, and convert the eastern part of the Commonwealth. Under this privileged regime, the city developed very rapidly and became a prosperous commercial and religious center. The troubles in the East from the 17th century onwards darkened the picture, and the population suffered atrocities at the hands of the Tatars and the Swedes. Its Ukrainian population was deported to the east in 1945.