{{Infobox settlement | name = Kruklanki | settlement_type = Village | image_skyline = Kruklanki01.jpg | image_caption = Center of Kruklanki | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{POL}} | subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship | subdivision_name1 = Warmian-Masurian | subdivision_type2 = County | subdivision_name2 = Giżycko | subdivision_type3 = Gmina | subdivision_name3 = Kruklanki | coordinates = {{coord|54|5|18|N|21|55|21|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}} | pushpin_map = Poland | pushpin_label_position = bottom | established_title = Founded | established_date = 1545 | founder = Jan Bębelnik | elevation_m = | population_total = 1100 | timezone = CET | utc_offset = +1 | timezone_DST = CEST | utc_offset_DST = +2 | registration_plate = NGI | website = http://www.kruklanki.pl }} '''Kruklanki''' {{IPAc-pl|k|r|u|'|k|l|a|n|k|i}} is a village in Giżycko County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.{{TERYT}} It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Kruklanki.
It is located in Masuria.<ref name=sgk/>
==History== Kruklanki was established in 1545 by Jan Bębelnik, who bought land to establish the village.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kętrzyński|first=Wojciech|author-link=Wojciech Kętrzyński|year=1882|title=O ludności polskiej w Prusiech niegdyś krzyżackich|language=pl|location=Lwów|publisher=Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich|page=532}}</ref><ref name=sgk>{{cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich|volume=IV|year=1883|language=pl|location=Warszawa|page=726}}</ref> It was first settled and then predominantly inhabited for centuries by Polish people.<ref name=sgk/> A new church was built in {{circa|1574}}.<ref name=sgk/>
During World War II, six Polish generals, including Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, and around 20 aides-de-camp and orderlies were initially held as prisoners of war by the Germans in the village after the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944.<ref name=ps>{{cite journal|last=Stanek|first=Piotr|title=Niewola powstańców warszawskich (1944–1945)|journal=Dzieje Najnowsze|volume=XLIV|issue=2|issn=0419-8824|language=pl|page=54}}</ref> The Germans offered the Polish generals to collaborate, but the Poles declined.<ref name=ps/>
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Category:Villages in Giżycko County Category:1545 establishments in Poland Category:Populated places established in 1545
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