Valpovo

Valpovo is a town in Slavonia, Croatia. It is near the Drava river within the location of Slavonia, 25 km northwest of Osijek. The population of Valpovo is 7,406, with a total of eleven,563 in the municipality. In Hungarian the city is known as Valpo and in German as Walpach. In antiquity, it was called Iovalum. There are several suggested etymologies. One is that it comes from the Latin root Iov-, which means "divine". However, the ending can not be explained by way of Latin. One clarification is that it comes from the Indo-European phrases yow and h2elut, so that it means "magical beer."

The different, more likely, is that it comes from the Indo-European roots yow and h2elom, so that it method "magical herb", anything plant that signified. Perhaps the only clarification is that it comes from the Indo-European phrase wel, which means "valley", anything "Io-" meant. The city is first cited in 1332. It changed into captured via Ottoman Empire in 1543. It become initially kaza centre in Sanjak of Pojega until 1601. It became later in sanjak centre in Kanije Eyalet until Austrian conquest in 1687.