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Andrij Savka

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Ethnicity
  
Rusyn

Name
  
Andrij Savka

Criminal penalty
  
hung


Years active
  
1638-1661

Occupation
  
bandit

Died
  
1661, Muszyna, Poland

Born
  
December 13, 1619 (
1619-12-13
)
Stebnik

Cause of death
  
hanging (capital punishment)

Other names
  
Robin Hood of the Lemkos

Andrij Savka (transliterated)/Andrew Sawka (translated)/Андрій Савка (Ukrainian) is a Lemko bandit and folk hero from Dukla. He was born in 1619 in Stebník. In 1651, he led 500 men as part of a peasant revolt known as the Kostka-Napierski Uprising. He was the son of a church cantor, and had some education.

Biography

  • Trochanowski, Petro (1999). "Andrii Savka v panteoni Lemkivskŷkh zbiinykiv". Lemkivskii kalendar [Lemko Yearbook] (in Polish). Legnica and Krynica. pp. 50–60. OCLC 271512456. 

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