The Komancza Republic was an association of 30 Lemkos villages, founded in eastern Lemkivshchyna in Komańcza on November 4, 1918. It had a Ukrainiophile orientation, and planned to unite with the West Ukrainian National Republic. It was suppressed by the Polish government on 23 January 1919 during the Polish-Ukrainian War. Its head of state was the President of the Council, Pantelejmon Shpylka. Its fate was sealed by the Treaty of Saint Germain, which gave Galicia west of the San to Poland
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