Country Bosnia and Herzegovina Time zone CET (UTC+1) | Canton Herzegovina-Neretva Local time Sunday 4:46 AM | |
Entity Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Weather 9°C, Wind E at 8 km/h, 95% Humidity Municipality Ravno, Bosnia and Herzegovina | ||
Orahov Do is a village in Ravno municipality Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was formerly part of the Trebinje municipality, up until the Bosnian War. It is only a few kilometers away from the border with Croatia on the road from the Adriatic coast to Popovo polje. It was the birthplace of Ragusan merchant Nikola Bošković, father of famed astronomer Ruđer Bošković.
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Map of Orahov Do, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Name
The literal translation of Orahov Do is "Walnut Valley". Other variants include Orahovi Do, Orovi Do, and Orahovo. In Serbian Cyrillic, the name is written as "Орахов До".
History
The village is mentioned in Ragusan documents dating to 1408 (as Orachouo dol) and 1414 (as Oracouodol). The 1408 document mentions nobleman Pokrajac Novaković's granting his subject Novak Grgurić from Orahov Do to settle with his family in the Ston region. The region was during the Middle Ages part of the župa (county) of Popovo.
According to Serbian sources, the Bošković brotherhood (ancestors of Roger Joseph Boscovich), originally surnamed Pokrajčić, had settled the village from the surrounding mountains. Branches of the brotherhood also settled the surroundings of Stolac.
Demographics
The village is inhabited by a Croat majority and Serb minority. In the 1991 census, the village had 42 residents, including:
Anthropology
Surnames found in the village include Đurinov, Čupović, Bjelanov, Delić, Zurević, Cajin, Pirijač, Kićunov, and others.