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Gierkiny
Gierkiny is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sępopol, within Bartoszyce County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland, close to the border with the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia. It lies approximately north-east of Sępopol, east of Bartoszyce, and north-east of the regional capital Olsztyn.
Before 1945 the area was part of Germany ( East Prussia). Following World War II the native German populace was expelled and replaced by Poles.