Goranci (Mostar)

Goranci is a mountain (620 m ) in Bosnia - Herzegovina, near Mostar.

Population

The population was Croatian to 81% until the war (1992-1995 ); 18% of inhabitants considered themselves the Serbian minority. Bosniaks were not resident in the town. The Serbian inhabitants are mostly resettled in the " Republika Srpska ".

In the center there is a Catholic church with a cemetery and a Serbian Orthodox cemetery. A Serbian Orthodox Church there has never been in place.

The place Goranci has become a victim of the rural exodus, because the young people have moved to the 13 km remove Mostar since the 1970s. Many of them have built in the hills of the Neretva valley between the Old Town of Mostar and Goranci their homes, so that old neighbors from the village and neighbors have remained in the suburbs. The districts that are predominantly inhabited by people from Goranci, hot Cim, Vihovići and Ilici.

A large number of young villagers who could find no or poor job in Mostar in the 1970s (especially to Stuttgart, Munich, Rhine -Main, Rhine -Neckar and the Ruhr area ) moved to Germany.

Some former villagers and their descendants build on the paternal estate cottages, to escape the summer heat in Mostar.

The former village school, which at times had more than 30 students per year in the 1950s and 60s, is closed today. The few children go to Mostar to school.

Were 2,314 registered users in the Catholic church of the Assumption in 1962, the number fell in 1975 to 1750 and 1992 to 600 in 2002, the church had only 297 members.

Name

The name is either derived from the Serbo-Croatian verb " goriti " ( burn ) or the name of the neighboring village Raška Gora. Raška is the noun " Rašak " ( water chestnut and water chestnut) derived adjective; gora means forest or forested mountain. Goranci would therefore be something like " forest dwellers " or " the mountain people " mean.

Other places with the same or similar names

Name ( State )

  • Goranci (Croatia ),
  • Goranci ( Bosnien_und_Herzegowina )
  • Goranci ( Serbien_und_Montenegro )
  • Goranci (Macedonia )
  • Goranci (Macedonia )

In Zagreb, the Croatian capital, there is a district with the similar sounding names Gorenci.

Districts of Goranci

Gradina, Podgradina, Goranačka gomila, Hamzevina, Raskrsce, Miljevci, Modrave, Puzevina, Plandište, Vučjaci, Kulašin, Staro selo, basica Guvno, Sovici

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