Marinci is a
village in the
Nuštar municipality in the
Vukovar-Syrmia County in eastern
Croatia located northeast of
Vinkovci and southwest of
Vukovar. The population is 670 (census 2011).
The village is located on the county road Ž4137 Nuštar-
Bogdanovci-Vukovar
and its position was strategically important during the 1991
Battle of Vukovar
The Battle of Vukovar was an 87-day siege of Vukovar in eastern Croatia by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various paramilitary forces from Serbia, between August and November 1991. Before the Croatian War of Independence the Bar ...
.
Marinci were built on the foundations of an older
Roman settlement. A
Catholic church of the
Immaculate Conception of the Blessed
Virgin Mary was built in the center of the village in 1855, demolished in 1992 and rebuilt in 2005.
Name
The name of the village in
Croatian
Croatian may refer to:
* Croatia
*Croatian language
*Croatian people
*Croatians (demonym)
See also
*
*
* Croatan (disambiguation)
* Croatia (disambiguation)
* Croatoan (disambiguation)
* Hrvatski (disambiguation)
* Hrvatsko (disambiguation)
* S ...
is plural.
References
Populated places in Vukovar-Syrmia County
Populated places in Syrmia
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