Vukovar

Vukovar is a city in japanese Croatia. It consists of Croatia's largest river port, positioned at the confluence of the Vuka and the Danube. Vukovar is the seat of Vukovar-Syrmia County. The town's registered population become 26,468 in the 2011 census, with a complete of 27,683 inside the municipality. The name Vukovar method 'city at the Vuka River. The river changed into referred to as "Ulca" in antiquity, possibly from an Illyrian language. Its name might be related to the call of the river "Volga". Folk etymology has linked it to the Croatian phrase "vuk", which means "wolf". In other languages, the metropolis in German is known as Wukowar and in Hungarian as Vukovar or Valkovar.

In the overdue 17th century, the medieval Croatian call Vukovo turned into supplanted with the aid of the Hungarian Vukovar. Vukovar is placed within the Eastern a part of the Republic of Croatia and is the centre of the Vukovar-Syrmia County. Its vicinity locations it on the border of ancient provinces Eastern Slavonia and Western Syrmia. The town is positioned on essential shipping routes. Since time immemorial transport routes from the northwest to the southeast had been active in the Danube Valley via the Vukovar area.