Koty | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Poland |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Warmian-Masurian |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Pisz |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Biała Piska |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Coordinates: | 53.7553°N 22.1872°W |
Koty (pronounced, de|link=no|Kotten[1]) was a village in the administrative district of Gmina Biała Piska, within Pisz County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.[2] The town no longer exists, as the region was converted into a military training ground, the . It lay about a kilometer southwest of Zdedy, and about 1120NaN0 east of the regional capital Olsztyn.
Historically belonging to the Masurian cultural region, Koty was established in the mid-15th Century, and its population was entirely Lutheran by the 20th Century.[3] Its name is the Polish word for "cats."[4]
During World War I, 52 soldiers were buried in the town's cemetery, Of them, 45 were German, 3 were Russian, and 4 were unidentified.[5]