Gorczyce [ɡɔrˈt͡ʂɨt͡sɛ] (German: Gorczitzen) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Prostki, within Ełk County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.

[2] Before the 13th century, the region surrounding present day Gorczyce was inhabited by Baltic Prussians and was known as Galindia.

After the secularization of the Teutonic Order in 1525, the region became part of Ducal Prussia, which was established as a vassal state of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland.

The village was historically called Gorczitzen, written Gortzitzen in the 1881 Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland,[4] and is recorded as Gramatzken in a 1484 document.

[9] With the defeat of Germany in World War II, it became part of Poland and was renamed to Gorczyce.