Opatovac (, sr-cyr, Опатовац, , ) is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...

. It is connected by the D2 road. The village is home to one of the last remaining

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in Croatia at the section of the

Vukovar Plateau Vukovar Plateau (, sr-Cyrl-Latn, Вуковарски равњак, separator=" / ", Vukovarski ravnjak) is a low loess plateau in eastern Croatia in the region of Syrmia named after the town of Vukovar. The eponymous town of Vukovar originally de ...

History

The

Serbian Orthodox The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches. The majority of the populat ...

Church of St. George was built in 1802 with the

iconostasis In Eastern Christianity, an iconostasis () is a wall of icons and religious paintings, separating the nave from the sanctuary in a Church (building), church. ''Iconostasis'' also refers to a portable icon stand that can be placed anywhere withi ...

dating back to 1769. During the so-called

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the village hosted the temporary refugee camp where thousands of individuals received primary medical support and registration.

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Populated places in Vukovar-Srijem County Populated places on the Danube Populated places in Syrmia {{VukovarSyrmia-geo-stub

History

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