Rakowo, Szczecinek County

Village in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

53°36′40″N 16°21′36″E / 53.61111°N 16.36000°E / 53.61111; 16.36000Country

PolandVoivodeshipWest PomeranianCountySzczecinekGminaBorne SulinowoTime zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Vehicle registrationZSZ

Rakowo [raˈkɔvɔ] (German: Rackow)^[1] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Borne Sulinowo, within Szczecinek County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland.^[2]

History

The territory became a part of the emerging Polish state under its first historic ruler Mieszko I in the 10th century. Rakowo was a royal village of the Kingdom of Poland, administratively located in the Wałcz County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province.^[3] It was annexed by Prussia in the First Partition of Poland in 1772, and from 1871 to 1945 it was also part of Germany.

References

^ M. Kaemmerer (2004). Ortsnamenverzeichnis der Ortschaften jenseits von Oder u. Neiße (in German). ISBN 3-7921-0368-0.
^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
^ Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warsaw: Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences. 2017. p. 1a.