Nov 21, 2021
Bunjevci (Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [bǔɲeːʋtsi, bǔː-]) are a South Slavic ethnic group. Catholic by religion, and Shtokavian-Ikavian by dialect, of which majority live in the Bačka region in Serbia (province of Vojvodina) and southern Hungary (Bács-Kiskun county, particularly in the Baja region).
They presumably originate from western Herzegovina, from where they migrated to Dalmatia, and from there to Lika and Bačka in the 16th and 17th century.
Bunjevci who remained in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as those in modern Croatia and Hungary, today maintain that designation chiefly as an ethno-regional identity, and often declare themselves as Croats.
