Border between Croatia and Serbia

The border between Croatia and Serbia separates the territory of the Republic of Croatia and Serbia . Its length is given (from a Serbian point of view) at 217 km, of which 137 km in the Danube .

The Croatian-Serbian border (controversial red route)

Borderline

The controversial border between the Hungarian border and the mouth of the Drava / Drava in the Danube

The controversial and repeatedly changed border from Vukovar to the Save

The common national border begins in the north at the exit of the Danube from Hungary. The course of the border is particularly controversial up to the point where the Drava flows into the Danube:

Section of the Danube

According to Serbia, the border is formed by the Danube valley path . On the other hand, Croatia regards the historical border between the former Hungarian counties ( counties , županija) Baranya and Bács-Bodrog as decisive, which partly deviates considerably from the valley path and in particular the areas of Karapanđ (ž) a and Kenđija, Blaževica and east of the Danube Kolondoš, Zmajevac I and Zmajevac II, Poluostrvo, Zverinjak and Srebrenica assigns Croatia, while Croatia does not claim the parts of Bács-Bodrog county west of the valley road for itself. The border line claimed by Croatia goes back mainly to earlier meanders of the Danube. These areas not claimed by Serbia (marked in green on the map) thus represent a no man's land (terra nullius) in which attempts have been made to establish several micronations . The further course of the Danube border also has two areas northeast of the Danube claimed by Croatia, namely the island of Vukovar and the larger island of Šarengrad .

Border between the Danube and the Save

To the east of Ilok, the border leaves the Danube and turns south. Here the villages of Šarengrad and Bapska have also belonged to Croatia since 1948. To the west of the Serbian village of Vizić, the border line turns to the west, leaving Molovin with Serbia and cutting the Zagreb-Belgrade railway line between Šid (Serbian) and Tovarnik (Croatian) . South of Tovarnik the border runs in the west of the Serbian villages Ilinci and Baltrovci, crossing the small river Bosut to the former Autoput Bratstvo i jedinstvo (now in Croatia the Autocesta A3 motorway , in Serbia Autoput A3 ) with the border crossing between Lipovac (Croatia) and Batrovci ( Serbia). In its further course the border leaves the forest of Malovanci on the Serbian side and the village Strošinci in Croatia, while the Serbian Jamena lies in a wide bulge of Serbia on the north bank of the Sava , at the end of which the Croatian-Serbian border on the Sava on the border from Bosnia and Herzegovina .

history

The de facto regime of Srpska Krajina

The valley path of the Danube was defined in 1945 as the border between the republics of Serbia and Croatia, but in the late 1940s, the so-called Đilas Commission also gave the Croatian republic a portion further east south of the Danube up to and including Ilok (across from Bačka Palanka Some areas with Ilok and the city of Vukovar were occupied by the Serbs in the course of the Croatian War in 1991 and annexed to the Republic of Serbian Krajina . These areas came under Croatian control again through the Erdut Agreement in 1995/1998 . The breakup of Yugoslavia became the border between the former republics of the international border and the accession of Croatia to the European Union on 1 July 2013 for the EU's external border . between Serbia and Croatia have started negotiations on resolving the border dispute. for the island of Vukovar was founded in 2006, a pragmatic solution.

Attempted creation of micronations

"Proof of Citizenship" from Liberland

In the disputed areas on the Danube, an attempt was made to found several micronations , such as the 7 km² former uninhabited Gornja Siga peninsula of Liberland and the 100 m² so-called Kingdom of Enclava, which was not claimed by either Serbia or Croatia . The attempt to found a principality of Ongal was made on the areas marked as pocket 1 to 3 on the map .

Individual evidence

↑ cf. Klemenčić, Mladen; Schofield, Clive H. (2001) - Literature
↑ The course of the border from a Croatian point of view can be found in Freytag & Berndt Superatlas Croatia Slovenia, ISBN 978-3-7079-0423-9 , and in Autóatlasz Magyarország, Honvédelmi Minisztérium Térképészeti Kft., Budapest, ISBN 978-963-257-087-7 , only northern part).

Web links

Commons : Border between Croatia and Serbia - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

Klemenčić, Mladen; Schofield, Clive H. (2001). War and Peace on the Danube: The Evolution of the Croatia-Serbia Boundary. Durham, England: International Boundaries Research Unit. ISBN 978-1-897643-41-9 ,

[1] . Klemenčić, Mladen; Schofield, Clive H. (2001) - Literature

[2] The course of the border from a Croatian point of view can be found in Freytag & Berndt Superatlas Croatia Slovenia, ISBN 978-3-7079-0423-9 , and in Autóatlasz Magyarország, Honvédelmi Minisztérium Térképészeti Kft., Budapest, ISBN 978-963-257-087-7 , only northern part).