| Szołtany | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Total Type: | |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Name1: | Podlaskie |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Sejny |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Puńsk |
| Coordinates: | 54.25°N 32°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Leader Title: | Village representative |
| Leader Name: | Kamil Robak |
| Elevation M: | 150 |
| Population Total: | 93 [1] |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 16-515 [2] |
| Blank Name: | Car plates |
| Blank Info: | BSE |
Szołtany (; lt|Šaltėnai) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Puńsk, within Sejny County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Lithuania.[3] It lies approximately 3km (02miles) west of Puńsk, 210NaN0 north-west of Sejny, and 1260NaN0 north of the regional capital Białystok.
From 1975-1998 the village was administratively governed by the Suwałki Voivodeship.
Polish farmer and politician Stanisław Lemiesz was born in Szołtany.
The Marycha River flows through Szołtany. There are three bus stops in the village, one of which is made of hollow blocks and features carved stone columns of Gediminas.[4]
The village was established at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. Until 1597 Szołtany was called Studencza, when King Sigismund III Vasa changed the name of the village to the present one. In the same year, the king allocated 8 Voloks of land for the maintenance of the Parish of Punsk, and in 1606 - 15 Voloks.[5]
Until the third partition of Poland the village belonged to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and then it belonged to the Duchy of Warsaw from 1807 to 1815 until it got annexed by the Russian Empire.
There was a farmstead in Szołtanywith 4 houses and 11 inhabitants in the 19th century. In 1827 there were 195 inhabitants in Szołtany, including the incorporated Szołtany Jurisdiction.[6]
After World War I, the lands of the Szołtany Farmstead were distributed to Polish legionaries,[7] during a 1921 census 152 people lived in the village.
From 1919 to 1952 Szołtany administratively belonged to the Gmina Sejwy, while from 1952 to the present it belongs to the Gmina Punsk.