Wągsty is a
village in the administrative district of
Gmina Kolno, within
Olsztyn County,
Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.
It lies approximately north-west of
Kolno
Kolno is a town in northeastern Poland, located in the Podlaskie Voivodeship, about 150 km northeast of Warsaw. It is the seat of Kolno County, and the seat of the smaller administrative district ( gmina) called Gmina Kolno, but it is no ...
and north-east of the regional capital
Olsztyn.
Before 1772 the area was part of
Kingdom of Poland, and in 1772–1945 it belonged to Prussia and Germany (
East Prussia
East Prussia ; german: Ostpreißen, label=Low Prussian; pl, Prusy Wschodnie; lt, Rytų Prūsija was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 187 ...
).
References
Villages in Olsztyn County
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