Sanok County (in Polishpowiat sanocki ) is a unit of territorial administration and local government in the Subcarpathian Voivodship in Poland, created on 1st January1999 as a result of the Local Government Reorganization Act of 1998.
The county borders to the south on Hungary, to the west on Krosno county, to the north on Brzozow county and Bircza county, and to the east on Lisko county.
To the north it borders on the county of Gniezno, to the east on the counties of Gniezno and Wrzesnia, to the south on the counties of Jarocin (formerly Pleszew) and Srem, and to the west on the counties of Srem, Poznan, and Oborniki.
The Cybina flows parallel to the Glowna, arising at the county's borders and leaving the county at the elevation of Swarzedz, having flowed 27 km.
These are the records of the Austrian regime in the counties of Gorlice (1901-1918), Jaslo (1853-1918), Sanok (1873-1918); from inter-war Poland: Gorlice (1918-1939), Jaslo (1918-1939), and Sanok (1918-1939), and from the Nazi occupied SanokCounty (Der Kreis Hauptmann-Sanok) from the years 1939-1944.
The records of the County Government [Starostwo] of Jaslo include materials touching upon relations between the Greek Catholic clergy with Orthodoxy, the conversion of Greek Catholics to Orthodoxy, opinions among the Lemkos, activities of Ukrainians hoping to obtain influence among the Lemkos leading to their Ukrainization.
The collection containing source materials touching upon the liquidation of Lemko communities in the counties of Gorlice, Jaslo, Krosno, Lesko, Nowy Sacz and Sanok is that of the "the Government plenipotentiary for Evacuation." This person was attached to the Headquarters of the "Operational Group for the Vistula Action" [Akcja Wisla].
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