From an Ottoman register of 1478, it is clear that at that year 116 non-Muslim households lived in Sadovo, 12 of Turkmen-Muslims and 9 newly converted to Islam.

In the book Ethnography of the vilayets of Adrianople, Monastir and Thessalonik, published in Constantinople in 1878 and reflecting the statistics of the male population from 1873, Sadovo is listed as a village with 78 households and 65 Muslim inhabitants and 200 Bulgarians.

In 1889, Stefan Verkovich (Topographical-Ethnographic Sketch of Macedonia) noted Sadovo as a village with 44 Bulgarian and 24 Turkish houses In 1891, Georgi Strezov wrote about the village: Sadovo, 2 hours SW of Nevrokop (the town of Gotse Delchev).

Ethnography and Statistics"), the population of the village numbered 401 people, of which 288 were Christian Bulgarians and 113 were Turks.

It is the last village on the Bulgarian side before the border crossing Ilinden - Exochi (Vazem).