Borovo (Serbian Cyrillic: Борово), (meaning "of the pines") locally known as Borovo selo (Borovo village, to distinguish it from relatively new nearby settlement of Borovo naselje), is a village and an eponymous municipality in Vukovar-Srijem County in eastern Croatia.
Population: 5,386
Latitude: 45° 22' 35.00" N
Longitude: 18° 58' 0.98" E
The Battle of Vukovar (Croatian: Bitka za Vukovar, Serbian: Битка за Вуковар, Bitka za Vukovar) was an 87-day siege of Vukovar in eastern Croatia by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various paramilitary forces from Serbia, between Augu…
Osijek (pronounced [ôsijeːk]) is the fourth largest city in Croatia with a population of 108,048 in 2011. It is the largest city and the economic and cultural centre of the eastern Croatian region of Slavonia, as well as the administrative centre of…
Vukovar (Croatian pronunciation: [v̞ûkɔv̞aːr]; Serbian Cyrillic: Вуковар) is a city in eastern Croatia. It has Croatia's biggest river port, located at the confluence of the Vuka River and the Danube. Vukovar is the seat of the Vukovar-Srijem County…
Milutin Milanković (Serbian Cyrillic: Милутин Миланковић, pronounced [milǔtin milǎːnkɔʋitɕ]; 28 May 1879 – 12 December 1958) was a Serbian mathematician, astronomer, climatologist, geophysicist, civil engineer, doctor of technology, university profe…
The Vukovar massacre, also known as the Vukovar hospital massacre or the Ovčara massacre, was the killing of Croatian prisoners of war and civilians by Serb paramilitaries and the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) at the Ovčara farm southeast of Vukovar …
Bač Fortress (Serbian: Бачка тврђава / Bačka tvrđava) is a medieval fortress in Serbia, Vojvodina.
Syrmia (Serbian: Срем, Srem; Croatian: Srijem) is a fertile region of the Pannonian Plain in Europe, between the Danube and Sava rivers.
The Vučedol culture (Croatian: Vučedolska kultura) flourished between 3000 and 2200 BC (the Eneolithic period of earliest copper-smithing), centered in Syrmia and eastern Slavonia on the right bank of the Danube river, but possibly spreading through…
Osijek Airport (IATA: OSI, ICAO: LDOS) is the airport serving Osijek, Croatia.
Trpinja is a village and municipality in the Vukovar-Srijem County in eastern Croatia.
Island of Šarengrad (Serbo-Croatian: Šarengradska ada / Шаренградска ада, pronounced [ʃǎreŋgratskaː ǎːda] or [-ǎda]) is a Danube river island situated close to the village of Šarengrad in Croatia.
Vukovar-Srijem County (Croatian: Vukovarsko-srijemska županija, lit. "Vukovar-Syrmia County") is the easternmost Croatian county.
Gradski vrt (City Garden) is a multi-use stadium in the Croatian city of Osijek.
The Island of Vukovar (Serbo-Croatian: Vukovarska ada / Вуковарска ада, pronounced [ʋûkoʋaːrskaː ǎːda] or [-ǎda]) is a disputed island on the river Danube.
The Dalj massacre was the killing of 56 or 57 Croats in Dalj, Croatia on 1 August 1991, during the Croatian War of Independence. In addition to civilian victims, the figure includes 20 Croatian policemen, 15 Croatian National Guard (Zbor narodne gar…
Erdut is a village in eastern Croatia, located some 37 km east of the major city of Osijek, lying on the border with neighbouring Serbia. The village of Erdut administratively belongs to the eponymous municipality, which also contains three other vi…
The Battle of Borovo Selo on 2 May 1991 (known in Croatia as the Borovo Selo massacre, Croatian: Pokolj u Borovom Selu and in Serbia as the Borovo Selo incident, Serbian: Инцидент у Боровом Селу) was one of the first armed clashes in the conflict wh…
The Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek (Croatian: Sveučilište J.J. Strossmayera) is a university located in Osijek, Croatia.