Bršadin ( sr-Cyrl, Бршадин, hu, Borsod) is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...

in the Trpinja Municipality in Croatian easternmost

Vukovar-Syrmia County Vukovar-Srijem County ( hr, 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 ...

. Bršadin is located north of the Vuka river and west of the town of

Vukovar Vukovar () ( sr-Cyrl, Вуковар, hu, Vukovár, german: Wukowar) is a city in Croatia, in the eastern region of Slavonia. It contains Croatia's largest river port, located at the confluence of the Vuka and the Danube. Vukovar is the seat of ...

on the main road to

Vinkovci Vinkovci () is a city in Slavonia, in the Vukovar-Syrmia County in eastern Croatia. The city's registered population was 28,247 in the 2021 census, the total population of the city was 31,057, making it the largest town of the county. Surround ...

Geography

Bršadin is third-largest settlement in the municipality, after Trpinja and Bobota. It is located on the D55 highway between the towns of

and

. Bršadin is surrounded by a villages

Bogdanovci Bogdanovci (Rusyn: ''Богдановци'', sr-Cyrl, Богдановци, hu, Bogdánfalva) is a village and municipality in the Vukovar-Syrmia County in eastern Croatia. It is located a few kilometers south of Vukovar in eastern Slavonia. ...

and Marinci on south,

Pačetin Pačetin ( sr-Cyrl, Пачетин, hu, Pacsinta) is a village in the municipality of Trpinja, Vukovar-Syrmia County in the easternmost part of Croatia. At the time of the 2011 Census the population of the village was 541. Village lies north of ...

on west, Lipovača on the north and city

on the east. Agricultural land and forests are the main characteristics of the surrounding area. Bobota Canal is located next to the village.

History

Before the 20th century

Bršadin is first mentioned in historical sources in 1279 under the name Boršod. Boršod was located on an elevated area known as the "Old Village", about two kilometers west of the present day settlement.> Boršod decays after 1526

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

breakthrough into Syrmia and

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. After 1529,

Suleiman the Magnificent Suleiman I ( ota, سليمان اول, Süleyman-ı Evvel; tr, I. Süleyman; 6 November 14946 September 1566), commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in the West and Suleiman the Lawgiver ( ota, قانونى سلطان سليمان, Ḳ ...

colonized place with first

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families,

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from north

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and north-eastern Bosnia, and after 1543 people from the central part of the

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peninsula.

Since 1900

World War I

In 1914, at the beginning of

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, Austro-Hungarian military command

mobilization Mobilization is the act of assembling and readying military troops and supplies for war. The word ''mobilization'' was first used in a military context in the 1850s to describe the preparation of the Prussian Army. Mobilization theories and ...

. Bršadin people disliked mobilization aside

Triple Entente The Triple Entente (from French '' entente'' meaning "friendship, understanding, agreement") describes the informal understanding between the Russian Empire, the French Third Republic, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland as well a ...

and they deserted in large numbers and taught to

Russian army The Russian Ground Forces (russian: Сухопутные войска �ВSukhoputnyye voyska V}), also known as the Russian Army (, ), are the land forces of the Russian Armed Forces. The primary responsibilities of the Russian Ground Force ...

at Eastern Front or join Serbian army at

Salonika front The Macedonian front, also known as the Salonica front (after Thessaloniki), was a military theatre of World War I formed as a result of an attempt by the Allied Powers to aid Serbia, in the autumn of 1915, against the combined attack of German ...

. During the war, a military hospital with 7000 beds, colloquially known as "Wooden Vienna", was located in the village. From 27 December 1920 (when they arrived in Vukovar) soldiers and families of the White Russian émigrés who were followers of

Pyotr Wrangel Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel (russian: Пётр Никола́евич барон Вра́нгель, translit=Pëtr Nikoláevič Vrángel', p=ˈvranɡʲɪlʲ, german: Freiherr Peter Nikolaus von Wrangel; April 25, 1928), also known by his ni ...

settled in Bobota,

, Bršadin, Trpinja and Vera.

World War II

In first days of occupation, Đurđević family were sentenced to death and shot on January 17, 1942 in Dudik, location near

where 455 victims were executed. In the spring of 1944, Vaso Đurđević-Turčin, the last of Đurđević brothers, leader of Bršadin partisan and People's hero. In his honor, today at the center of village stands remembrance monument.

Croatian War of Independence

During the Croatian War of Independence Bršadin was within self-proclaimed Serb political entity SAO Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia. In the final stages of conflict United Nations Mission conducted peaceful reintegration this region into Croatian jurisdiction.

Languages

Serbian language

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and

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is the second

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in most of the villages of the Municipality of Trpinja (except Ćelije) alongside the Croatian language which is official at the national level. Both Serbian and Croatian language are standardized varieties of the pluricentric

Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian () – also called Serbo-Croat (), Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia an ...

language. According to the Municipal Statute, individuals who are members of the Serbian

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are ensured the

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of national belonging and freedom to use their language and script in public and private use on the whole territory of the Municipality including the village of Bršadin. The statute guarantees that the

will be used in the same font size as the Latin alphabet in the text of the local seals and stamps, on official plates of public representatives, executive and administrative bodies, as well as on those of legal persons with public authorities. According to the municipal Statute, bilingual signs of the same font are used for written traffic signs and other written traffic markings, street and squares names and names of settlement and geographical localities on the entire territory of the Municipality. Equal public use of Serbian language is required on the basis of the Constitutional Act on the Rights of National Minorities in the Republic of Croatia and relevant national laws and the country is a party to the

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Education

Elementary school

References

Sources

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brsadin Populated places in Vukovar-Syrmia County Joint Council of Municipalities Populated places in Syrmia Serb communities in Croatia