Turka

Turka stands in the Carpathians where the Yablunka meets the Stryi. In 1431 King Władysław Jagiełło granted the settlement to Vancza Valachus, a grant confirmed by later kings. The mountain town received Magdeburg rights in 1730, and a Roman Catholic parish was established three years later. Until the first partition of Poland in 1772 it belonged to the Przemyśl land of the Ruthenian Voivodeship, after which it passed to the Habsburg monarchy.