Battle of Przemysl (1918)

Battle of Przemyśl
Part of Polish-Ukrainian War
Date November 2–12, 1918 Location Przemyśl, Galicia Result Polish decisive victory
Belligerents
West Ukrainian People's Republic	Second Polish Republic
Commanders and leaders
	Stanisław Puchalski, Julian Stachiewicz
Strength
unknown (several hundreds)	several dozens (initial) 1367 men plus 379 reinforcements send from Krakow (final)
Casualties and losses
several dozens dead and wounded	several dozens dead and wounded

Stanisław Puchalski,

several dozens (initial)

The Battle of Przemyśl - a struggle for the control over the city of Przemyśl in former Austro-Hungarian Galicia and local river crossings on the San river, between Ukrainian and Polish militias and regular troops, from 2 to 12 November 1918, during the Polish-Ukrainian War.

In 1918 the city of Przemyśl (Ukrainian: Peremyshl) formed a part of the Austrian province Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria and was its third biggest city after Krakow and Lviv (Polish: Lwów, German: Lemberg). It was also the biggest Austro-Hungarian fortress north of the Carpathians (and the site of a 1914-1915 famous siege in World War I), and contained key road and railway crossings on the San River, linking Krakow and Lviv.

The San River also marked the border between the eastern and western parts of the province; the western part was overwhelmingly Polish while the eastern part was ethnically more mixed. Ukrainians dominated the rural areas, while ethnic Poles were a majority in the cities, which also continued a substantial Jewish minority. At the turn of the 20th century Poles constituted 78.7% of the population of western Galicia, Ukrainians 13.2%, Jews 7.6%, Germans 0.3% and others 0.2%. The population data for eastern Galicia was Ukrainians 64.5%, Poles 21.0%, Jews 13.7%, Germans 0.3% and others 0.5%.

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