Bódvarákó is a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county,

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

. The village is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Names and etymology

The name is of Slavic origin, see also

Rakov Potok Rakov Potok is a village in Croatia. It is connected by the D1 highway. The area is known to have several mass graves from World War II. In 2011, it emerged that the area likely contained the remains of the last government of the Independent Sta ...

(

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) or Rakov (Czech Republic).

Proto-Slavic Proto-Slavic (abbreviated PSl., PS.; also called Common Slavic or Common Slavonic) is the unattested, reconstructed proto-language of all Slavic languages. It represents Slavic speech approximately from the 2nd millennium BC through the 6th ...

''*rakъ'' -

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. 1284/1464: ''Rako''. The stem ''Bódva'' refers to the

Bodva The Bodva (, , ) is a 110-km long river in Slovakia and Hungary. Its source is in the Slovak Ore Mountains. The river crosses the border with Hungary near Turňa nad Bodvou, and flows into the river Sajó in Boldva, north of Miskolc Miskolc ( ...

river basin.

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Street map
Populated places in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County World Heritage Sites in Hungary {{Borsod-geo-stub