Puračić

Village in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Puračić Пурачић
Village
44°32′49″N 18°28′36″E / 44.54694°N 18.47667°E / 44.54694; 18.47667
Country	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity	Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Canton	Tuzla
Municipality	Lukavac
Area
• Total	2.59 sq mi (6.71 km²)
Population (2013)
• Total	2,909
• Density	1,100/sq mi (430/km²)

Puračić (Cyrillic: Пурачић) is a village in the municipality of Lukavac, Bosnia and Herzegovina.^[1]

Puračić is one of the most famous villages in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is known for its popular fun fair.

History

Puračić in its distant past was a station on a road from Tuzla over Visoko to Istanbul. Because of that, it was a very important road as a center where trading took place.

The Puračić Market

One of the villages oldest traditions, it still sticks around even today, is a market every Thursday. Surprisingly, the appearance of the market has only one story: The Ottoman Empire, one Thursday in the middle of October, 1824., decided to open it for the first time. The man behind it was Husein-kapetan Gradašćević.

From the very beginning the market was considered one of the cheapest and best ones in the South-East parts of Bosnia. It was also very well known for its animal market, as, very often, butchers from Sarajevo went to the market.

Demographics

According to the 2013 census, its population was 2,909.^[2]

Ethnicity in 2013
Ethnicity	Number	Percentage
Bosniaks	2,654	91.2%
Serbs	22	0.8%
Croats	16	0.6%
other/undeclared	217	7.5%
Total	2,909	100%

References

^ Official results from the book: Ethnic composition of Bosnia-Herzegovina population, by municipalities and settlements, 1991. census, Zavod za statistiku Bosne i Hercegovine - Bilten no.234, Sarajevo 1991.
^ "Naseljena Mjesta 1991/2013" (in Bosnian). Statistical Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Retrieved January 22, 2022.