Silaš ( sr-cyr, Силаш, hu, Szilas) is a small village in the

Šodolovci Šodolovci ( sr-Cyrl, Шодоловци, hu, Páznán) is a village and a municipality in Osijek-Baranja County in eastern Croatia. In 7 villages of the Šodolovci Municipality there was 1,653 inhabitants at the time of 2011 Census. Landscape o ...

municipality in

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. At the time of 2011 Census village's population was 476. Most people go past it to get to a bigger and better city or village. Silaš was established in 1922 in the aftermath of the

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on the spot of abandoned

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. Its original inhabitants were families of Serb soldiers who participated in the

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battles against the

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and

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. They were settled by the newly established

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. It was established because Serb soldiers wanted to make a place which they can stay in and defend, so they made a small sized village.

Geography

Šodolovci Municipality is divided into two parts with village Palača and Silaš constituting an

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separated from the rest of municipality by

Ernestinovo Ernestinovo ( hu, Ernőháza, german: Ernestinenhof, sr-cyr, Ернестиново) is a municipality in Osijek-Baranja County, Croatia. There are a total of 2,189 inhabitants, 78% of whom are Croats, 19% are Hungarians, and 7% are Serbs. The m ...

Municipality and the village of

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on its closest point. In addition, Silaš Exclave is in itself de facto pene-enclave as the main road between Palača and Silaš goes through the village of

Korođ Korođ or Korog ( hu, Kórógy) is a village in the municipality of Tordinci, Vukovar-Syrmia County, Croatia. Korođ is one of the oldest Hungarian settlements in the area of present day Croatia dating back at least to some time before 1290 when t ...

in neighboring

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References

Populated places in Osijek-Baranja County Joint Council of Municipalities Serb communities in Croatia {{OsijekBaranja-geo-stub

Geography

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