Oszkinie 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. It lies approximately 2 km south of Puńsk, 18 km north-west of Sejny, and 124 km north of the regional capital Białystok. From 1975-1998 the village was administratively governed by the Suwałki Voivodeship.

History

The noble village was located at the end of the 18th century in the Grodno district of the Trakai Voivodeship. The village was part of the Suwałki district in the 19th century, in 1827 the village population was numbered at 91 with 15 houses and in 1886 the population numbered at 288 with 35 houses.

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