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Bartoszyce ) is a town on the Łyna river in northeastern Poland with 26,100 inhabitants (1995). Situated in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodship (since 1999), Bartoszyce was previously in Olsztyn Voivodship (1975-1998).

The Teutonic Order constructed a wooden castle at the site of Bartoszyce around 1270 and a stronger castle in 1274. Bartoszyce received city rights in 1326 from Dietrich von Altenburg; at the time the settlement was known as i, or "rose valley." In 1332 Lother von Braunschweig confirmed the city rights and renamed the town i which meant "adze."

Bartoszyce was 60% destroyed during World War II and joined Poland in 1945.

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