Rakovskovo () is a small village located in southeast
Bulgaria
Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...
, situated in
Obshtina Nessebar, in the
Burgas region
Burgas (, formerly the Burgas okrug) is a province in southeastern Bulgaria on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. The province is named after its administrative and industrial centre, the city of Burgas, the fourth biggest town in the countr ...
. It is made up of small farms and summer villas. The village lies in the foothills of the
Balkan Mountains
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, and is within a 15-minute drive to the
Black Sea
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beach town of
Obzor
Obzor ( ) is a small town and seaside resort on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria. It is part of Nesebar Municipality, Burgas Province. On February 28, 2021, the citizens of Obzor and six nearby villages voted in a referendum to separate from Neseba ...
. As of 2024, the population of Rakovskovo is 79.
The village is named after
Georgi Sava Rakovski
Georgi Stoykov Rakovski () (1821 – 9 October 1867), known also Georgi Sava Rakovski (), born Sabi Stoykov Popovich (), was a 19th-century Bulgarian revolutionary, freemason, writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival ...
, a Bulgarian revolutionary and nationalist.
References
Villages in Burgas Province
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