Scientists from the Institute of Archeology of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków discovered and researched two cemeteries of the First World War in the vicinity of Łupków in the Podkarpacie region.

This area is included in the project “Carpathian episodes of the Great War”. It is a vast complex of battlefields to the east of the Beskid Pass over Czeremcha, where bloody battles took place at the turn of 1914 and 1915, between Austria-Hungary and the Russian Empire.

The archaeologists found numerous remains from World War I as field fortifications built in accordance with the rules of the Austro-Hungarian art of war, as well as communication lines, fire and artillery posts and burial places of fallen soldiers.

The aim of the project is not only to find the physical remnants of the fighting armies, but also to remind that it was also “our war”. Up to 95 percent soldiers of Polish nationality recruited from the Podkarpacie region fought in regular Austro-Hungarian platoons.