Etymology
There are several theories about origin of their name. The most common is that the name derives from the river Buna in central Herzegovina, their supposed ancestral homeland before their migrations. This etymology was first proposed by Fr. Marijan Lanosović and supported by Vuk Karadžić, Rudolf Horvat, Ivan Ivanić, Ivan Antonović, István Iványi, and Mijo Mandić. Another theory is that the name comes from the term Bunja, a traditional stone house from Dalmatia.
In Bunjevac dialect name of this ethnic group is Bunjevci (pronounced ), in Croatian Bunjevci, in Serbian Буњевци or Bunjevci, in Hungarian bunyevácok, and in German Bunjewatzen.
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