Oleszyce
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Oleszyce o is a small town in Subcarpathian Voivodeship
, Poland
, with 3,089 inhabitants (02.06.2009).
During World War II, on 16 September 1939 there was a battle near Oleszyce, in which General Józef Kustroń
fell, the commander of the Polish 21st Mountain Infantry Division.
Subcarpathian Voivodeship
Podkarpackie Voivodeship , or Subcarpathian Voivodeship, is a voivodeship, or province, in extreme-southeastern Poland. Its administrative capital and largest city is Rzeszów...
, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
, with 3,089 inhabitants (02.06.2009).
During World War II, on 16 September 1939 there was a battle near Oleszyce, in which General Józef Kustroń
Józef Kustroń
Józef Rudolf Kustroń was a Brigadier General of the Polish Army in the Second Polish Republic, commandant of the 21st Mountain Infantry Division.-Early life:Kustroń spent his childhood in the southern town of Nowy Sącz, where his family had settled...
fell, the commander of the Polish 21st Mountain Infantry Division.