Germans fled or were expelled and replaced with Poles, many of them expelled from the Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union or forced to settle in the area throughout the Operation Vistula in 1947.
Unlike most of the neighbouring villages, which before the Operation Vistula (1940s) were largely inhabited by Rusyns' populations (recently called "Lemkos" to avoid inappropriate associating them with any Russian proveniences), throughout the history, Dominikowice and Kobylanka constituted almost homogenously Polish settlement.
The Lemko inhabitants of the village were removed in Operation Vistula in 1947, and scattered to 30 different villages in 6 counties.
Other were removed from Komancza on 29 April 1947 as part of Operation Vistula and
The Boyko population of the area used to call the village Ulicz, before being expelled during Operation Vistula.
On June 7, 1946, the Polish Army entered the village under operation named "Vistula." "Operation Vistula" was set forth to purge partisans from the region.
After World War II the place of German displaced residents, replaced by Ukrainian displaced from the operation "Vistula" and today their descendants inhabit the village.
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It was separated from the rest of Lemkivshchyna by the Polish-dominated Poprad valley which led to isolation of the local population and it gradual assimilation with Poles and Slovaks, until Operation Vistula of 1947, when the Lemkos were deported together with Ukrainians to other areas of Poland and to the Soviet Union.