Kretingalė (German: Deutsch Crottingen; Polish: Krotynga[2]) is a small town in Klaipėda County, in northwestern Lithuania.

Since the Treaty of Melno in 1422, the town was located on the border between the State of the Teutonic Order and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and their respective successors.

In 1454, King Casimir IV Jagiellon incorporated the region to the Kingdom of Poland upon the request of the anti-Teutonic Prussian Confederation.

[4] After the subsequent Thirteen Years' War (1454–1466) the settlement was a part of Poland as a fief held by the Teutonic Knights,[5] and thus was located within the Polish–Lithuanian union, later elevated to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

[2] After World War I according to the Treaty of Versailles in 1920, it was ceded by Germany as part of the Memelland (Klaipėda Region) and in 1923, it was annexed by Lithuania, to which it has belonged since, except for 1939–1945 when it was occupied by Nazi Germany.