Sanok

Sanok stands on the San beside the Carpathian Mountains, on a route towards Hungary. The Hypatian Chronicle records the capture of its stronghold by King Géza II of Hungary in 1150 and later calls it the Hungarian Gate. In 1339 Bolesław-Yuri II of Galicia granted the town Magdeburg law; King Casimir III confirmed its status in 1366. Sanok became a royal town and the administrative and judicial centre of its own district within the Ruthenian Voivodeship.