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Ilača Apparitions
Ilača () is a village in eastern Croatia, southeast of Vinkovci. The village is connected with the rest of the country by the D46 state road connecting it with the town of Vinkovci and continuing into Serbia as the State Road 120 to the nearest town of Šid. History The village of Ilača developed from an earlier Sveti Ilija (Saint Eliah) settlement which was mentioned for the first time in 1404. Old village was located about two kilometres north of the contemporary settlement at an low uphill of Vukovar Plateau but following the 1699 Treaty of Karlowitz and the Ottoman retreat villagers moved into the somewhat lower Bosut fields (Spačva basin). In 1736 local census 56 Catholic households were recorded, some of them earlier local inhabitants with others moving in from Bačka, Gorjani, Komletinci, Apševci, Kukujevci and Batrovci. Education The village hosts a branch of Ilača–Banovci Elementary School (). Since 2002, the school administration has been based at the locat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Settlement (Croatia)
Settlements in Croatia, in Croatian language, Croatian ''naselje'' (Plural, pl. ''naselja'') are the third-level spatial division of the country, and usually indicate existing or former human settlement. Each Croatian cities, Croatian city or town (''grad'', pl. ''gradovi'') or Municipalities of Croatia, municipality (''općina'', pl. ''općine'') consists of one or more settlements. A settlement can be part of only one second-level spatial division, whose territory is the sum of exclusive settlement territories. Settlements are not necessarily incorporated places, as second-level Local authority, local authorities (towns and municipalities), known as ''jedinice lokalne samouprave'', delegate some of their functions to so-called ''jedinice mjesne samouprave'' (''gradski kotar'', ''gradska četvrt'', or ''područje mjesnog odbora''). The Croatian Bureau of Statistics publishes their decennial census data on the basis of official settlement (naselje) data from the Register of Spatia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbia
, image_flag = Flag of Serbia.svg , national_motto = , image_coat = Coat of arms of Serbia.svg , national_anthem = () , image_map = , map_caption = Location of Serbia (green) and the claimed but uncontrolled territory of Kosovo (light green) in Europe (dark grey) , image_map2 = , capital = Belgrade , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , official_languages = Serbian language, Serbian , ethnic_groups = , ethnic_groups_year = 2022 , religion = , religion_year = 2022 , demonym = Serbs, Serbian , government_type = Unitary parliamentary republic , leader_title1 = President of Serbia, President , leader_name1 = Aleksandar Vučić , leader_title2 = Prime Minister of Serbia, Prime Minister , leader_name2 = Đuro Macut , leader_title3 = Pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vukovar-Srijem County
Vukovar-Srijem County (), Vukovar-Sirmium County or Vukovar-Syrmia County, named after the eponymous town of Vukovar and the region of Syrmia, is the easternmost Croatian county. It includes the eastern parts of the region of Slavonia and the western parts of the region of Syrmia, as well as the lower Sava river basin, Posavina and Danube river basin Podunavlje. Due to the overlapping definitions of geographic regions, division on Slavonia and Syrmia approximately divides the county vertically into north-west and south-east half, while division on Posavina and Podunavlje divides it horizontally on north-east and south-west half. The county's seat is in Vukovar, a town on the Danube river while its biggest town and economic and transportation center is in Vinkovci, town with 33,328 inhabitants. Vinkovci served as a temporary '' de facto'' seat of the county during the Croatian War of Independence with some institutions still remaining in the town as of 2020. In 2011 the entire popu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batrovci
Batrovci () is a village located in the municipality of Šid, Srem District, Vojvodina, Serbia. As of 2011, it has a population of 259 inhabitants. A border crossing between Serbia and Croatia is located in the village, on European route E70. Name The name of the village in Serbian is plural. Historical population * 1961: 653 * 1971: 577 * 1981: 464 * 1991: 399 * 2002: 320 * 2011: 259 See also * List of places in Serbia * List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina This is a list of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina, a province of Serbia , image_flag = Flag of Serbia.svg , national_motto = , image_coat = Coat of arms of Serbia.svg , national_anthem = ... * Spačva basin References * Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996. External links Batrovci Customs Details Populated places in Syrmia Croatia–Serbia border crossings {{SremRS-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kukujevci
Kukujevci ( sr-cyr, Кукујевци) is a village located in the municipality of Šid, Srem District, Vojvodina, Serbia. As of 2011 census, it has a population of 1,955 inhabitants. Name The name of the village in Serbian language, Serbian is plural. History Prior to the Yugoslav Wars, the population of the village was 89% Croat. During the Yugoslav Wars and particularly as a spillover from the Croatian War of Independence local Croat community in Kukujevci was exposed to harassment and persecution by Serbian nationalists leading to community's expulsion from the village. As a consequence of the war demographic structure of the village is today almost entirely different with 90% of population being ethnic Serbs, mostly Serb refugees who left after the collapse of the self-proclaimed SAO Western Slavonia or from other parts of Croatia. The new Serbian population has sought to rename the village to ''Lazarevo''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apševci
Apševci () is a village in Syrmia in easternmost part of Croatia along the state border with Serbia. It is administratively part of the Nijemci Nijemci (, ) is a Settlement (Croatia), village and a municipality in the Vukovar-Syrmia County in Croatia. In the 2011 Croatian census, 2011 census, there were 4,705 inhabitants in the municipality, 87.78% of which were Croats. The second larg ... Municipality, the largest municipality by territory in the county. The population of the village at the time of 2011 census was 305. Name The name of the village in Croatian is plural. References Populated places in Vukovar-Srijem County Populated places in Syrmia {{VukovarSyrmia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Komletinci
Komletinci () is a village in eastern Croatia located east of Otok. The population is 1,649 (census 2011). Name The name of the village in Croatian is plural. Demographics 1991 census 1910 census According to the 1910 census, settlement of Komletinci had 2,022 inhabitants which were linguistically and religiously declared as this: Partizansko spomen-groblje, Komletinci.JPG, Yugoslav Partisans The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian language, Macedonian, and Slovene language, Slovene: , officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska i partizanski odr ... memorial cemetery References Populated places in Vukovar-Srijem County Populated places in Syrmia {{VukovarSyrmia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorjani, Croatia
Gorjani (; ) is a village and a municipality in Osijek-Baranja County, Croatia. In the 2011 census, there were a total of 1,550 inhabitants, in the following settlements: * Gorjani, population 1,008 * Tomašanci, population 583 In the same census, 97% were Croats. Gorjani village was the seat of the House of Garai (Garay), a Hungarian-Croatian noble family, and a branch of the Dorozsma (Durusma) clan. Name The name of the village in Croatian is plural. History King Béla IV of Hungary granted the eponymous domain of Gara to John of Clan Dorozsma and his son, Stephen, in 1269. The charter of grant mentioned that Stephen was swordbearer to the King's son, Béla, Duke of Slavonia. Stephen's sons, Andrew and Paul, were the ancestors of the two branches of the family. Andrew's son, Nicholas I Garai was Palatine of Hungary from 1375 until his death. Near Gorjani, he courageously defended his cousin and sovereign, Queen Mary of Hungary, and her mother, Elizabeth of Bosnia, fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bačka
Bačka ( sr-Cyrl, Бачка, ) or Bácska (), is a geographical and historical area within the Pannonian Plain bordered by the river Danube to the west and south, and by the river Tisza to the east. It is divided between Serbia and Hungary. Most of the area is located within the Vojvodina region in Serbia and Novi Sad, the capital of Vojvodina, lies on the border between Bačka and Syrmia. The smaller northern part of the geographical area is located within Bács-Kiskun County in Hungary. Name According to Serbian historians, Bačka is a typical Slavic name form, created from "Bač" (name of historical town in Bačka) and suffix "ka" (which designates "the land that belongs to Bač"). The name of " Bač" (Bács) town is of uncertain origin and its existence was recorded among Vlachs, Slavs and Hungarians in the Middle Ages. The origin of the name could be Paleo-Balkanic, Romanian, Slavic, or Old Turkic. According to Hungarian historians, the denominator of the landscape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spačva Basin
The Spačva basin ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Spačvanski bazen, Спачвански базен) is a geographic microregion in eastern Croatia and northwest Serbia. The region is located in the southwestern part of Syrmia—the latter being divided by Croatia and Serbia—and the southeastern part of Slavonia macroregion of Croatia, surrounding the Spačva River and the Studva River. The entire region measures 51,000 hectares, out of which 40,000 hectares is located in Croatia and 11,000 in Serbia. The region's 40,000 hectares of oak (Quercus robur) forests makes the Spačva basin one of the largest continuous lowland oak forests in Europe. Up until the 1935 regulation of the bank of the Sava River the entire region was regularly flooded in spring. In addition, the region forms an organic continuum with the Bosut Forest (''Bosutska šuma'', sr-Cyrl, Босутска шума) in Vojvodina in Serbia. The Bosut Forest is one of two strict nature reserves in Vojvodina. The Spač ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Treaty Of Karlowitz
The Treaty of Karlowitz, concluding the Great Turkish War of 1683–1699, in which the Ottoman Empire was defeated by the Holy League at the Battle of Zenta, was signed in Karlowitz, in the Military Frontier of the Habsburg Monarchy (present-day Sremski Karlovci, Serbia), on 26 January 1699. Also known as "The Austrian treaty that saved Europe", it marks the end of Ottoman control in much of Central Europe, with their first major territorial losses in Europe, beginning the reversal of four centuries of expansion (1299–1683). The treaty established the Habsburg monarchy as the dominant power of the region. Context and terms Following a two-month congress between the Ottoman Empire on one side, and the Holy League of 1684– a coalition of the Holy Roman Empire, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Republic of Venice, and Peter the Great– the tsar of Russia, a peace treaty was signed on 26 January 1699. On the basis of ', the treaty confirmed the territorial holdings o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vukovar Plateau
Vukovar Plateau (, sr-Cyrl-Latn, Вуковарски равњак, separator=" / ", Vukovarski ravnjak) is a low loess plateau in eastern Croatia in the region of Syrmia named after the town of Vukovar. The eponymous town of Vukovar originally developed on the tall Danubian riverbank slopes of the plateau. The plateau represent western Syrmian drainage divide between the Danube and Sava rivers leading up to Fruška Gora hills further east. Drainage divide formed by the plateau nevertheless does not form impenetrable hydraulic barrier but rather area of differentiated levels of water transmissivity. Together with Spačva basin and Sava basin it is one of the primary microregions of the Vukovar-Srijem County. Numerous prehistoric areological sites were discovered on the plateau which represented optimal condition for human settlement and important communication route. Southwest edge of the plateau reaches the village of Mirkovci, suburb of Vinkovci, while eastern edges of the plat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
