Pratulin

Pratulin
Village
Church of Saints Peter and Paul
Pratulin
Coordinates: 52°10′N 23°26′E / 52.167°N 23.433°E / 52.167; 23.433
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Lublin
County	Biała Podlaska
Gmina	Rokitno

Pratulin [praˈtulʲin] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rokitno, within Biała Podlaska County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus.^[1]

On 24 January 1874 the Imperial Russian Army killed a group of 13 Greek Catholics in the village. They later became known as the Pratulin Martyrs.

During "Operation Barbarossa" the forest nearby was a staging point for the German 17th Panzer Division. At 3:30am on 22 June 1941 German Panzer and motorized troops decamped from this area, crossing the Bug River and attacking the Soviet Union.