Vukovarska Ada
| Vukovarska Ada | ||
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| Waters | Danube | |
| Geographical location | 45 ° 21 ′ N , 19 ° 2 ′ E | |
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The Island of Vukovar is a single island in the Danube , between the Vukovar-Srijem , eastern Croatia , and the province of Vojvodina , northern Serbia is disputed. The forested main island and several smaller islands are uninhabited.
Border disputes
Within the former Yugoslavia , the island , which is named after the place Vukovar on the Croatian shore , belonged to the Republic of Croatia . With the break-up of Yugoslavia , the internationally unrecognized Republic of Serbian Krajina was founded on Croatian territory , to which parts of Eastern Slavonia on the border with Serbia also belonged. The entire Croatian bank of the Danube was part of this area. When the western and most important parts of the Serbian Republic of Krajina were conquered by Croatian troops in the summer of 1995 , only Eastern Slavonia remained under Serbian control. In the Erdut Agreement , the Serbian and Croatian sides agreed to return Eastern Slavonia to Croatian administration by peaceful means. Despite the fact that before the war Croatia had floodplains to the left of the Danube and numerous river islands that protruded into the Serbian territory, the central reaches of the Danube was defined as the state border between Serbia and Croatia. Accordingly, the Vukovarska Ada has been officially on Serbian territory since 1998. Croatia, on the other hand, demands the return of the islands and floodplain landscapes on the left, Serbian bank of the Danube.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marko Baršiić: Vukovarska ada je sastavni dio grada Vukovara (The Vukovarska Ada is part of the city of Vukovar) ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Vjesnik, February 13, 2002
