 Another theory is that the name comes from the term "Bunja", a traditional stone house in Dalmatia similar to "Kažun" in Istria, meaning people who live in such type of houses, from personal name "Bunj" deriving from Bunislav or Bonifacije, Romanian personal name "Bun" from Bonus from which derives toponym "Bunić" near Gospić,  and pejorative nickname "Obonjavci" which is recorded since 1199 in Zadar probably meaning soldiers without order and discipline.The most common view is that the community fled western Herzegovina and Dalmatia to Vojvodina during the 17th-century Ottoman invasion, led by Franciscan friars, and was accepted in the Military Frontier.The Catholic Church in Subotica celebrates 1686 as the anniversary of the Bunjevci migration, when the largest single migration did take place.