State border, separating areas of Polish Republic and Ukraine is routed through areas, which in the past, not once were considered questioned. As a result of wars, partitions and other types of interstate conflict boundaries were changed, and even eliminated. This area in the past was a borderland of different peoples and cultures. Rivers San and the Bug on certain sections, shall perform the functions of the natural border between Poland and [...]

After the revolutionary invention of the kerosene lamp in 1853 year by the Polish chemist and entrepreneur of Armenian origin Ignatius Lukaszewicz, began to appreciate the benefits, offered by the petroleum. It was the kind of impulse, which gave rise to the oil industry in the area of ​​Galicia then belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Oil Route, is an international tourist trail which leads through areas of Podkarpackie oil and gas industry in Poland and Ukraine, through the historic region – Galicia. Leads, inter alia, by such [...]

Western Ukraine is the area inhabited by many ethnic and ethnographic groups (nationalities). Among ethnic groups should be mentioned: Ukrainians, Poles, Belarusians, Russians and Jews, while among the ethnographic groups must be mentioned: Boykos, Lemky and Huculy. By the term "ethnographic group", should be understood a group of people inhabiting a specific geographical area, a group that stands out among the surrounding population of swoistymi characteristics of cultural and has the awareness of belonging to its group by felt [...]