Kupusovići (Serbian: Купусовићи) is a village in the municipality of Višegrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1]

Kupusovići
Village
Kupusovići is located in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kupusovići
Kupusovići
Coordinates: 43°53′12″N 19°16′36″E / 43.88667°N 19.27667°E / 43.88667; 19.27667
Country Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity Republika Srpska
MunicipalityVišegrad
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

History

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In Chuck Sudetic's book Blood and Vengeance, he relates a folk tale regarding the naming of the town. During Ottoman control of Bosnia, a Hodža was leading Muslims in afternoon prayer when he began yelling about a cow in a nearby cabbage patch.[2] After the incident, locals began calling the village Kupusovići - Village of the Cabbage People.[2]

References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b Sudetic, Chuck (1998). Blood and vengeance : one family's story of the war in Bosnia. Penguin Books. p. 11. ISBN 9780140286816.

43°53′12″N 19°16′36″E / 43.88667°N 19.27667°E / 43.88667; 19.27667