Where does “Шпанац” come from?
Шпанац (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Serbo-Croatian Шпа̑нија, from German Spanien, from Middle High German Spāne, from Old High German Spānia, from Latin Hispānia, from Punic אי שפן — coast of hyraxes.
Ancestry of “Шпанац”, step by step