Lemko Region

The Lemko Region (Rusyn: Лемковина, romanized: Lemkovyna; Polish: Łemkowszczyzna; Ukrainian: Лемківщина, romanized: Lemkivshchyna) is an ethnographic area in southern Poland and Northern Eastern Slovakia that has traditionally been inhabited by the Lemko people.

[1] Previously a frontier area under the nominal control of Great Moravia, the Lemko Region became part of Poland in medieval Piast times.

It was made part of the Austrian province of Galicia due to the First Partition of Poland in 1772.

[citation needed] Only small parts of the southern Low Beskids and the northern San river region have a low-mountain landscape.

[citation needed] Conversely, it also includes much of the higher elevations of the Carpathians within modern-day Poland, which extend approximately to the Poprad River in the west (see: Ruś Szlachtowska).

Map of Lemkovyna according to World federation of Ukrainian Lemko organizations
The Lemko dialect is sometimes considered a variety of the Ukrainian language, the Rusyn language, or separate from both. [ according to whom? ] On the above map of Ukrainian dialects part of the region where Lemko was spoken is westernmost area in grey dotted with red diamonds, but the actual area extends far to the west and also to the south across the border with Slovakia.
Northern border of the Lemko Region in Poland according to Roman Reinfuss
Polish settlement
Lemko settlement