The very name signifies not only the settlement but also the area of Šuica Valley around the upper course of the river where there are several villages situated at the crossroads of Bosnia, Dalmatia and Herzegovina.

Through the Valley passed the Roman trade and military road connecting the cities of Salona and Servitium.

It passed east of the river Šujica source in Stržanj where a fortress that served as a watchtower was located.

The name of Šuica was first mentioned in 1516 in the Ottoman census of taxpayers as a settlement in nahiye Kupres in the kadiluk of Neretva.

Fifteen years later, the second list mentions 34 residents of Šuica who serve as guardians of the gorge (probably Stržanj) and were thus exempt from all taxes except the one for cereals.

[4] In 1550, it was noted that the Venetian ambassador Catarino Zeno who was on his way to Istanbul, stayed in Svizza, in a very comfortable guesthouse.

The country changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929, and the Šuica became part of a new administrative unit, Littoral Banovina.

On 9 May 1991, while a War of Independence took place in Croatia and the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina between different ethnic groups became more and more intense, the population of Šuica blocked the road and stopped entering of the tanks of the Yugoslav Army in Livno.

The administrative unit named Local Community of Šujica (Croatian:Mjesna zajednica Šuijca) roughly covers the whole area of Šuica Valley.

Among the known participants of this half marathon were Lisa Nemec, Đuro Kodžo, Milan Bandić and Marija Vrajić.