Bokrači

Bokrači Bokreči
Bokrači Location in Slovenia
Coordinates: 46°43′55″N 16°11′45.37″E
Country	Slovenia
Traditional region	Prekmurje
Statistical region	Mura
Municipality	Puconci
Area
• Total	2.84 km^2 (1.10 sq mi)
Elevation	267.9 m (878.9 ft)
Population  (2002)
• Total	70
[1]

Bokrači (pronounced [ˈboːkɾatʃi]; in older sources and locally Bokreči,[2][3] Hungarian: Bokrács[2]) is a village in the Municipality of Puconci in the Prekmurje region of Slovenia.[4] It is divided into Spodnji Bokrači (or Spodnja Ves, Slovene: Spodnja ves) with the Fartel, Mlinar, Vukon, and Žagar farms, Zgornji Bokrači (or Zgornja Ves, Slovene: Zgornja ves) with the hamlets of Talaberov Breg and Žgonjarov Breg, and the hamlets of Duge Gomile and Malačičevi.[5]

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.[6] Locally, the village is known as Bokreči.[5]

References

1. Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
2. Vengušt, Jernej. 1919. Seznamek prekmurskih občin (krajev) z označbo pošte in zemljevidom. Radgona, p. 4.
3. Jakopin 1985, p. 23.
4. Puconci municipal site
5. Savnik, Roman (1980). Krajevni leksikon Slovenije, vol. 4. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije. p. 286.
6. Snoj, Marko. 2009. Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, p. 69.

External links

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

Bibliography

• Jakopin, Franc (1985). Sluga, Meta (ed.). Slovenska krajevna imena. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba.