Warcino
| Warcino | |
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| Village | |
 Warcino
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| Coordinates: 54°13′22″N 16°51′26″E / 54.22278°N 16.85722°E | |
| Country |
 Poland
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| Voivodeship | Pomeranian |
| County | Słupsk County |
| Gmina | Kępice |
| Population | 450 |
Warcino [varˈt͡ɕinɔ] (former German name: Varzin) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kępice, within Słupsk County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies in Pomerania on the left bank of the Wieprza river, approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) southwest of Kępice, 30 km (19 mi) southwest of Słupsk, and 117 km (73 mi) west of the regional capital Gdańsk. The village has a population of 450.
The settlement, first mentioned in a 1485 deed, was part of the Duchy of Pomerania under Duke Bogislaw X (1454-1523). Subsequently held by nobles from nearby Zitzewitz (now Sycewice, Poland), it was incorporated into Brandenburg-Prussia in 1653.
In 1867 it was bought from the Blumenthal family for Otto von Bismarck by the grateful Prussian state for his services as Minister President during the Austro-Prussian War. Bismarck, though born in the Altmark of west-central Germany, had ties to Pomerania as he had spent several years of his childhood at his family's estates in Kniephof (now Konarzewo) near Naugard, and married Johanna von Puttkamer (of the Pomeranian German noble family Puttkamer) at nearby Kolziglow in 1847. Johanna died at Varzin in 1894 (preceding her husband by four years).
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