Official Name: | Bokrači |
Other Name: | Bokreči |
Pushpin Map: | Slovenia |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Slovenia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Slovenia |
Subdivision Type1: | Traditional region |
Subdivision Name1: | Prekmurje |
Subdivision Type2: | Statistical region |
Subdivision Name2: | Mura |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name3: | Puconci |
Area Total Km2: | 2.84 |
Population As Of: | 2002 |
Population Total: | 70 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Coordinates: | 46.7319°N 16.1959°W |
Elevation M: | 267.9 |
Footnotes: | [1] |
Bokrači (in Slovenian pronounced as /ˈboːkɾatʃi/; in older sources and locally Bokreči,[2] Hungarian: Bokrács[2]) is a village in the Municipality of Puconci in the Prekmurje region of Slovenia.[3] It is divided into Spodnji Bokrači (or Spodnja Ves, Slovenian: Spodnja ves) with the Fartel, Mlinar, Vukon, and Žagar farms, Zgornji Bokrači (or Zgornja Ves, Slovenian: Zgornja ves) with the hamlets of Talaberov Breg and Žgonjarov Breg, and the hamlets of Duge Gomile and Malačičevi.[4]
Bokrači was attested in written sources in 1355 as Volkarach (and as Bolrah in 1359 and Wolcrach in 1370). The medieval transcriptions indicate that the name is derived from *Bolkrači, presumably a plural form of the personal name *Bolkrač, which is believed to be a hypocorism of a German name with the root *folc- (from which the German name Volker and Slovene name Volkar are derived). The name would thus refer to an early inhabitant of the place. A less likely possibility is that the name is derived from the Slavic hypocorism *Vьlkoračь.[5] Locally, the village is known as Bokreči.[4]