Rakówka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Księżpol, within

Biłgoraj County Biłgoraj County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland. It was established on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its adminis ...

Lublin Voivodeship Lublin Voivodeship ( ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) of Poland, located in the southeastern part of the country, with its capital being the city of Lublin. The region is named after its largest city and regional capital, Lu ...

, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately east of Księżpol, south of

Biłgoraj Biłgoraj (, ''Bilgoray'', ) is a town in south-eastern Poland with 25,838 inhabitants as of December 2021. Since 1999 it has been situated in Lublin Voivodeship; it was previously located in Zamość Voivodeship (1975–1998). It is located sou ...

, and south of the regional capital

Lublin Lublin is List of cities and towns in Poland, the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the centre of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin i ...

Notable residents

Urszula Kozioł Urszula Kozioł (; born 20 June 1931) is a Polish poet and writer. She is a recipient of the Silesius Poetry Award (2011) and the Nike Award (2024). Biography Kozioł was born in Rakówka, a village in Poland. She attended high school in Zamo ...

(born 1931), poet and writer, 2024

Nike Award The Nike Literary Award (, pronounced ) is a literary prize awarded each year for the best book of a single living author writing in Polish and published the previous year. It is widely considered the most important award for Polish literatu ...

winner

References

Villages in Biłgoraj County {{Biłgoraj-geo-stub