Raków, Opole Voivodeship

For other uses, see Raków (disambiguation).

Raków [ˈrakuf] is a village in Gmina Baborów, Głubczyce County, Opole Voivodeship, in southern Poland.^[1] It is situated on the Psina River.

Raków
Raków
Coordinates: 50°7′49″N 18°1′17″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Opole
County	Głubczyce County
Gmina	Gmina Baborów
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	48-120
Area code	+48 77
Car plates	OGL

The name of the village is of Polish origin and comes from the word rak, which means "crayfish".^[2][3]

As of 1861, the village had a population of 548, Poles and Moravians by ethnicity, Catholics by confession.^[4]

References

1. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
2. Adamy, Heinrich (1888). Die schlesischen Ortsnamen, ihre Entstehung und Bedeutung. Ein Bild aus der Vorzeit (in German). Verlag von Priebatsch's Buchhandlung. p. 61.
3. Damrot, Konstanty (1896). Die älteren Ortsnamen Schlesiens, ihre Entstehung und Bedeutung. Mit einem Anhange über die schlesisch-polnischen Personennamen. Beiträge zur schlesischen Geschichte und Volkskunde (in German). Verlag von Felix Kasprzyk. p. 186.
4. Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom IX (in Polish). Warszawa. 1888. p. 511.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)