Vukovar-Srijem County (Croatian: Vukovarsko-srijemska županija), 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 …

The Croatia–Serbia border dispute entails competing claims regarding the border at several points along the Danube River valley shared by the two countries. The disputed areas are located along a 140-kilometre (87 mi) portion of the course, out of 188-kilometre (117 mi) of the river course in the area. In that area, the border is defined differently by the neighbouring countries—either as ...

Haris Silajdžić (Bosnian pronunciation: [xaris silajdʒitɕ]; born 1 October 1945) is a Bosnian politician and academic who served as the 5th Bosniak member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2006 to 2010. He was the 3rd Prime Minister of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1993 to 1996.. Silajdžić was born in Breza in 1945. During the Bosnian War, …

Biljana Plavšić (Serbian Cyrillic: Биљана Плавшић; born 7 July 1930) is a former Bosnian Serb politician and university professor who served as President of Republika Srpska and was later convicted of crimes against humanity for her role in the Bosnian War.. Plavšić was indicted in 2001 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for war crimes ...

Syrmia (or Srijem) this region is divided between Serbia and Croatia. In Croatia it is in the very east of the country. Turopolje; a microregion in the Sava river valley south of Zagreb, with city of Velika Gorica in its center. Hrvatsko Zagorje ("Croatian Upland", or simply Zagorje) Hrvatsko Zagorje lies to the north of the Croatian capital ...

Prince Mihailo Obrenović III of Serbia (Serbian Cyrillic: Михаило Обреновић, romanized: Mihailo Obrenović; 16 September 1823 – 10 June 1868) was the ruling Prince of Serbia from 1839 to 1842 and again from 1860 to 1868. His first reign ended when he was deposed in 1842, and his second when he was assassinated in 1868. He is considered to be a great reformer and the most ...

There was a campaign of ethnic cleansing in the area of the town of Foča committed by Serb military, police, and paramilitary forces on Bosniak civilians from 7 April 1992 to January 1994 during the Bosnian War.By one estimate, around 21,000 non-Serbs left Foča after July 1992. In numerous verdicts, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) ruled …

Geography. Bršadin is third-largest settlement in the municipality, after Trpinja and Bobota.It is located on the D55 highway between the towns of Vukovar and Vinkovci.Bršadin is surrounded by a villages Bogdanovci and Marinci on south, Pačetin on west, Lipovača on the north and city Vukovar on the east. Agricultural land and forests are the main characteristics of the …

The Syrmian Front (Serbo-Croatian: Srijemski front/Sremski front) was an Axis line of defense during World War II.It was established as part of the Eastern Front in late October 1944 in Syrmia and east Slavonia, northwest of Belgrade.. After the Yugoslav Partisans and the Red Army expelled the Germans from Belgrade in the Belgrade Offensive, the retreating Wehrmacht and …

The Czech and Slovak languages form the Czech–Slovak (or Czecho-Slovak) subgroup within the West Slavic languages.. Most varieties of Czech and Slovak are mutually intelligible, forming a dialect continuum (spanning the intermediate Moravian dialects) rather than being two clearly distinct languages; standardised forms of these two languages are, however, easily …