Postira island Brac
Postira is a settlement of Modern Times, founded by the refugees from
across the Channel and the old settlers of the Brac interior. The fort
of Lazanic seems to have been erected (in the valley underneath) by the
end of the 16th century. It was one of the numerous fortified monuments
to the permanent defense of the Bracans on the bare land.
Name Postira - where did it come from...
The Postirans will eagerly tell you the legend about the name Postira.
On Vrilo in the harbour, the women from Dol used to wash and to stretch
(prostirale) their chlotess on the coast to dry, so that the name
P(r)ostire came up.
Science, of course, seeks the origin of the name in the Latin word
pastura, meaning the pasture-ground. That word was further transformed,
according to the rules of Roman and Croatian phonetic changes into its
present form (and that change was already finalized early before the end
of the 8th century).
