Biskovychi

Biskovychi is a village in Sambir Raion, Lviv Oblast, in south-west Ukraine. Biskovychi hosts the administration of Biskovychi rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.

History

First mentioned in 1373. Historically, noble property belonging to the Lubomirski family, located in 1589 within Przemyśl Land of the Ruthenian Voivodeship. Under the Polish Republic">Polish language">Polish Republic, it served as the seat of the Biskowice Municipality of the —being home to over 3,000 inhabitants, predominantly Poles.
Under Occupation of [Poland (1939–1945)|German Occupation], the Polish Rychlik family hid the Jew Icchak Erdman for several months in 1942 and later provided him with shelter in the village of Zdrochec near Tarnów. In 1985, the Yad Vashem institute decided to posthumously award Antoni Rychlik the title of Righteous Among the Nations.

As of 2001, the village had a population of 2,413 inhabitants, with the following distribution of native languages: