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Raka
RakaLocation in Slovenia
Coordinates: 45°55′42.74″N 15°22′56.3″E / 45.9285389°N 15.382306°E / 45.9285389; 15.382306
Country	Slovenia
Traditional region	Lower Carniola
Statistical region	Lower Sava
Municipality	Krško
Area
• Total	1.24 km (0.48 sq mi)
Elevation	263.8 m (865.5 ft)
Population
• Total	345
• Density	278/km (720/sq mi)

Raka (pronounced [ˈɾàːka]; German: Arch) is a village in the Municipality of Krško in eastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Lower Sava Statistical Region. The village is known for a quality variety of onion.

Name

Raka was attested in written sources in 1161 as Arch (and as Archa in 1249, and Arch in 1279). The Slovene name is derived from the common noun raka 'wooden cladding preventing water erosion of a bank' or 'cladded chute carrying water to a mill'. Both the Slovene and German names are ultimately derived from Latin arca 'box'.

Church

The parish church in the centre of the settlement is dedicated to Saint Lawrence and belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Novo Mesto. It is a Late Baroque church built between 1799 and 1804 on the site of an earlier building. It has two belfries.

Raka Castle

Raka Castle is a castle west of the main settlement. It is one of the oldest castles in Slovenia as far as written sources are concerned, mentioned in documents dating to the 12th century. It was destroyed in a peasant revolt in 1515. The current building dates to the major refurbishing and rebuilding in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Raka include:

• Andrej Recelj (?–ca. 1600), vicar and the translator of Gorske bukve (1582), the first legal text in Slovene
• Martin Humek (1870–1943), beekeeper
• Amalija Ulčnik, the mother of Melania Trump, is a native of Raka, and the daughter of the local man who created the Raka red onion by crossing Egyptian and Ptuj onions.
• Ivan Tavčar, (1851–1923) Slovenian writer, lawyer, and politician.
• Vili Resnik, (1963) Slovenian rock singer and guitarist, represented Slovenia in Eurovision Song Contest in 1998
• Miran Rudan, (1965) Slovenian pop and rock singer (Pop Design)

References

1. Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
2. Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 78.
3. Krško municipal site
4. "Raška č'bula" [Raka Onion] (in Slovenian). MMC RTV Slovenija. 26 November 2013.
5. Snoj, Marko. 2009. Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, p. 346.
6. Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage reference number ešd 2207
7. Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage reference number ešd 2212
8. "Recelj, Andrej". Slovenska biografija (in Slovenian). Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Scientific Research Centre SAZU. 1960. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
9. Markošek, Tatjana (2 November 2022). "Gorske bukve – razkrite skrivnosti zanimivega rokopisa iz 16. stoletja" [Winegrowing Books – Unlocking the Secrets of a Fascinating 16th-century Manuscript]. MMC (in Slovenian). RTV Slovenia.
10. Bokal, Ljudmila, ed. 2008. Čebelarski terminološki slovar. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU and Lukovica: Čebelarska zveza Slovenije, p. 254.
11. Lauren Collins, The Model American in The New Yorker dated May 9, 2016

External links

• Media related to Raka at Wikimedia Commons
• Raka on Geopedia

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Landmarks	Brestanica Castle Krško Capuchin Monastery Krško Castle Krško Nuclear Power Plant Leskovec Castle Leskovec Parish Church Neviodunum Raka Castle
Notable people	Adam Bohorič Jurij Dalmatin Damjan Kozole Johann Weikhard von Valvasor

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