Szołtany ([ʂɔu̯ˈtanɨ]; Lithuanian: Šaltėnai[3]) 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.
Polish farmer and politician Stanisław Lemiesz was born in Szołtany.
There are three bus stops in the village, one of which is made of hollow blocks and features carved stone columns of Gediminas.
Until 1597 Szołtany was called Studencza, when King Sigismund III Vasa changed the name of the village to the present one.
[7] After World War I, the lands of the Szołtany Farmstead were distributed to Polish legionaries,[8] during a 1921 census 152 people lived in the village.