Białoboki, Podkarpackie Voivodeship

Białoboki [bʲawɔˈbɔkʲi] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gać, within Przeworsk County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland.

At the other end of this basin, from the south-east, on the steep bank lies the village of Ostrów, which in Proto-Slavic language indicates a place located on a swamp island or a peninsula entering the lake.

Cemeteries of Lusatian culture dating from 1000 to 650 BC were found at Białoboki and Grzęska at the site of the former settlement called Borek.

An Iron Age archaeological complex and burial grounds have been assigned the name Przeworsk culture.

An ethnic group of Germans named Walddeutsche settled in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship from the 14th to 16th centuries, mostly after the region returned to the Polish sphere of influence in 1340 when Casimir III of Poland took the Czerwień towns.

However earlier records from the time of the Byreczski family indicate some kind of "white" fortalice in the village before the castle was built.

[3] According to the recruitment register from 1515, the village was written as Byaloboky and was subject to taxation of six serf-fields, a tavern and a pop (Polish for priest of a Rus Orthodox church).

After the death of Stanisław Starzechowski in 1582, his holdings were inherited by his wife Anna from Tarłów Starzechowska and children: Jan, Zofia, Dorota and Katarzyna.

Before 1589, the entire Białobok key: Białoboki, Ostrów, Wolica, part of Dębów, Mikulice, Rogóżno and Tarnawka were purchased by the Greek Konstanty Korniakt of Crete for the sum of PLN 100,000.

Konstanty Korniakt (son) and his mother sold their extensive Lviv holdings and moved to the family's Przemyśl lands including their three residences: Białobok, Złotowice and Sośnica.

In the middle of the village valley from the west is a quite large hill, on which they built the Korniakt family stronghold known as Korniaktów castle.

It was in an extremely defensive place surrounded by swamps from the west and south, and moat to the north and east with a drawbridge.

However, Korniakt (father) had legally received his nobility and the Korwin coat of arms from Poland's King Sigismund Augustus.

Konstanty Korniakt (son) went on to win four great legal trials against Stadnicki: The total amount of claims was PLN 212,000, huge for those times.

Konstanty spent six months in the dungeons of Łańcut, until he and his mother and brother signed a commitment to waive all property claims and other wrongs against him.

In the summer of 1624 a Nogais Tatar horde led by Khan Temir destroyed Białoboki and overran Korniaktów Castle.

The Tatars were stationed in a ravine in nearby Wolica - in ramparts and arranged there a weapons warehouse called zwica.

During the battle of the church in Nowosielce a Tatar chief was wounded, whose ordinaries brought him to Białobok fields, where he died.

The majority of villagers were captured and taken as Jasyr for sale to the Ottoman Empire where a terrible fate awaited.

After the abolition of serfdom and the enfranchisement of the villages in 1848, the only remaining noble hereditary property was the farm estate.

In 1882 Białoboki was recorded as part of Łańcut county, had 1083 rozl., 81 homes, 481 residents, a parish church in Urzejowice, and a municipal clearing office.

The end of World War I (1914-1918) led to the Second Polish Republic (1918-1939) until the Nazi Invasion of Poland and occupation (1939-1945).