Beka was a

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in the administrative district of

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, within

Puck County __NOTOC__ Puck County (, ) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland, on the Baltic coast. The ''powiat'' of this name existed in the history of Poland, since the times of th ...

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, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Puck and north of the regional capital

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. The first mention of the village was in 1523. Due to

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of the river

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in the 19th century, the sea-shore was changed and the village often

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ed. This caused its population to decrease. After a

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in 1960 the village was abandoned. For details of the history of the region, see

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References

Villages in Puck County Former villages in Poland {{Puck-geo-stub