Arkadios Dimitrakopoulos

Arkadios Dimitrakopoulos ( (1824–1908) was a Greek wealthy merchant, father-in-law of Dimitar Brakalov, chairman of Greek educational society "Efxinos Pontos". and prominent figure of Burgas society in the 19th century.

Biography Arkadios Dimitrakopoulos was born in Peloponnese Greece, spent some time in Ermoupolis Syros and lived most of his life in Burgas. The famous Bulgarian historian Velko Tonev claims that Arkadios origin is from “continental Greece” but doesn't explain other information. Arkadios was enrolled in the high school of Ermoupolis. Andreas Dimitrakopoulos (born 1816), signed the school textbook of 1838-1839 as Arkadios' guardian. The family ties between the two have remained unknown. On December 17, 1842, in the age of 18 he gave the oath to become citizen of Ermoupolis Syros. Later on, although the family has resided and succeeded in Burgas, he followed the same process for most of his children for unknown reasons.

The Burgas local historian A. Hristov describes Arkadios Dimitrakopoulos among the wealthy Greeks - merchants from Burgas which have a significant contribution to the development of trade, from whose income funds are allocated for the development of modern Greek education. Dimitrakopoulos in 1878-1880 is one of the biggest wheat merchants, exporter of cereals and owner of big grain warehouses in the Port of Burgas. He even has his own pier in the port, one of only five existed. They were located on the site of nowadays railway station. Around the Liberation of Bulgaria (1878), the gardens and fields to the north of the city (nowadays in the centre of Burgas) were Dimitrakopoulos property. Starting from the present square “Troikata” to the present Burgas Free University there was a garden, the whole surrounded by fruits, among which there were hazelnuts and also a vineyard, property of Dimitrakopoulos. To the north of that garden around 1889-1890 the municipality started the new city cemetery. That place had earlier been a part of that garden. Dimitar Brakalov, a mayor of Burgas at the time, being a son-in-law of Dimitrakopoulos, asked from him to give a part of the garden – the northern – for a cemetery. After the death of Brakalov's wife and Dimitrakopoulos’ daughter she buried there. The transformation of part of Dimitrakopoulos ‘ garden into cemetery around 1885 is described in other documents, too. and benefactor of Langadia, Arcadia. In 1866, he donated 10.000 drachmas for the construction of Gymnasium of Langadia, Arcadia Dimitrios Dimitrakopoulos was based in Constantinople.