Vujčić (
Cyrillic
, bg, кирилица , mk, кирилица , russian: кириллица , sr, ћирилица, uk, кирилиця
, fam1 = Egyptian hieroglyphs
, fam2 = Proto-Sinaitic
, fam3 = Phoenician
, fam4 = G ...
: Вујчић; ; ) is a surname.
According to
Jovan Cvijić and
Jovan Erdeljanović
Jovan Erdeljanović (11 November 1874 – 12 February 1944) was a Serbian and Yugoslav ethnologist.
Biography
Jovan Erdeljanović was born in Pančevo, Austria-Hungary. He studied at the universities of Vienna, Berlin, Leipzig and Prague. In 1 ...
, until the first appearance of the dictionary of
Vuk Karadžić in 1867, the surname was referred to as Vuičić. At the turn of the (20th) century, some registered the name as
Vujičić Vujičić ( sr, Вујичић) is a Serbian surname, a patronymic derived from ''Vujič'' or ''Vujica'', hypocoristics of the given name ''Vuk'' (meaning "wolf"). It is borne by ethnic Serbs., It is one of numerous surnames derived from the root ...
while others as Vujčić hence today's two separate last names. Karadžić used the letter j as a borrowing letter from the
Latin alphabet.
The first Vujčić is mentioned in the year 1518 around Serbia's capital
Belgrade
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. The first mention of the Vujčić family as a tribe is in 1541 in the
nahija of Zmijanje near
Banja Luka where even today there are people with this surname. After this, there were migrations to Herzegovina, Montenegro then to
Raška and
Sjenica. After the
Battle of Čegar in 1809, fearing revenge from the
Ottoman Turks
The Ottoman Turks ( tr, Osmanlı Türkleri), were the Turkic founding and sociopolitically the most dominant ethnic group of the Ottoman Empire ( 1299/1302–1922).
Reliable information about the early history of Ottoman Turks remains scarce, ...
, the Vujčićs followed
Karađorđe Petrović for the then-empty
Šumadija. Karađorđe himself decided who of them would live in which area.
Serbs have been documented in
Croatia from as early as the year 1600 as
frontiersmen (''graničari''). There the surname Vuičić was also documented. The first Vujčić family in Croatia hails from the village of
Kusonje
Kusonje is a village in Croatia in the town of Pakrac, Požega-Slavonia County. It is connected by the D38 (Croatia), D38 highway. Kusonje was the site of an ambush during the Croatian War of Independence in 1991, when 20 Croatian policemen and sol ...
. The surname also has roots from the
Morača canyon in
Montenegro where the surname shares kinship (''svojta'') with the surnames
Đalović,
Radović Radović ( sr, Радовић) is a common surname in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. It is sometimes spelled Radovic in English and is related to the German version Radowitz, Romanian Radovici and Hungarian Radovics.
People ...
and Femić. Even today there are many people in
Brčko with the last name Vujčić.
Frankfurt-based
Serbian language newspaper ''Vesti'' has reported that the first Vujčić appeared in 1790 in
Čurug and in
Gospođinci in 1852.
Poreklo porodice
at ''Vesti online''
Notable Vujčićs
* Nikola Vujčić (born 1956), Serbian poet
* Prvoslav Vujčić (born 1960), Serbian Canadian author
* Zoran Vujčić
Zoran Vujčić (born 1 October 1961) is a Croatian retired footballer. He played as a forward.
During his club career he played for Hajduk, Solin, Cibalia, Rijeka, Levante and Zadar
Zadar ( , ; historically known as Zara (from Venetian a ...
(born 1961), Croatian footballer
* Boris Vujčić (born 1964), Croatian bank governor
* Nikola Vujčić (born 1978), Croatian basketball player and team manager
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As defined by Professor Leigh Thompson of the Kellogg School of Management, " team is a group of people who are interdependent with respect to infor ...
of Maccabi Tel Aviv
* Stephan Vujčić (born 1986), German footballer of Croatian descent
* Daniel Vujčić (born 1995), Slovenian footballer
* Nikša Vujčić (born 1998), Serbian footballer
See also
* Vujčići
References
External links
History of the Vujčić and Vujičić surname
Part two of the history of the Vujčić and Vujičić surname
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Serbian surnames
Croatian surnames