Bokrači Explained

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]

Name

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]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.stat.si/eng/index.asp Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
  2. http://www.dlib.si/stream/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-SYFIV41W/13133489-d7a8-46ec-b09a-0e6d646f64bc/PDF Vengušt, Jernej. 1919. Seznamek prekmurskih občin (krajev) z označbo pošte in zemljevidom. Radgona, p. 4.
  3. http://www.puconci.si/ Puconci municipal site
  4. Book: Savnik . Roman . Krajevni leksikon Slovenije, vol. 4 . 1980 . Državna založba Slovenije . Ljubljana . 286.
  5. Snoj, Marko. 2009. Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, p. 69.