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	Croatia Vukovar Travel Tourism Guide
		Vukovar itself has been habited since the tenth century and the town became the centre of the county in the middle ages.
		Vukovar is at the confluence where the Vuka River runs into the Danube and its name means the town on the river.
		Vukovar is at an elevation of 108 meters and is the largest Croatian town.
	www.photocroatia.com /traveltourism/croatia/inland/vukovar (287 words)

	Vukovar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Vukovar (Hungarian: Vukovár, German: Wukowar) is a city in eastern Croatia, and the biggest river port in Croatia located at the confluence of the Vuka river into the Danube.
		Vukovar is the center of the Vukovar-Srijem county.
		Primarily it was immigration that fed the growth in the Vukovar region and in the town particularly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vukovar (490 words)

	The Vukovar Area in the Past
		Vukovar was granted the status of Royal Borough as early as 1231, and was one of the earliest Royal Borougs in the Croatian lands.
		Vukovar was liberated in 1687, and Ilok in 1688.
		In spite of all the pressure of Greater-Serbian policy, a strong Croatian national consciousness was preserved in Vukovar, and the establishment of the Croatian Banovina in 1939 was greeted with relief.
	mirror.veus.hr /vukovar/docs/area_past.html (2344 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Vukovar massacre: What happened
		Vukovar was a modestly prosperous, sleepy, provincial town in eastern Croatia, near the border with Serbia, noted for its picturesque baroque architecture.
		When the Serb forces took control of Vukovar on 19 November 1991, several hundred people took refuge in the town's hospital in the hope that they would be evacuated in the presence of neutral observers.
		Vukovar, as part of eastern Slavonia, was the only region of Croatia's rebel Serb-held areas to escape capture by the Croatian army in 1995.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/2988304.stm (720 words)

	Review: Vukovar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Vukovar was filmed during 1994 in strife-torn Bosnia.
		The city of Vukovar, from which the movie takes its name, was a thriving home to 50,000 Serbs and Croats before the war.
		But Vukovar is a far more devastating experience, and those who do not avoid emotionally-draining features should rejoice that this one, a film festival darling (twelve awards in thirty-five entries), will receive national distribution (albeit of a limited sort).
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/v/vukovar.html (791 words)

	MIRacles No. 11
		Vukovar -- occupied Vukovar -- stands as a central symbol of the injured Croat psyche.
		Vukovar has taught me that it is not only important for the Yugoslavs to be open to peace: the Croats and the Bosnians must be labored with as well.
		The one factor that made Vukovar's destruction possible was not ethnic tension or economics or any of the usual things that war experts cite: it was the presence of high explosive weaponry.
	www.notfrisco.com /miracles/mir11.html (2278 words)

	Vukovar
		Vukovar is a city situated in Croatia, on the east of Croatia, on the west of Srem.
		Among various cultures, one of special significance for the Vukovar area is the Vucedol culture.
		In the written documents that have been preserved, Vukovar was mentioned in the early 13th century as Valko, Walk, Wolkow i.e.
	mihajlovic.lh.pl /vukovar_eng.html (589 words)

	Vukovar (Vukovar-Srijem, Croatia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		One that deserves to be considered it the flag of Vukovar - the city in east of Croatia that bacame the symbol of Croatian stouggle against aggression.
		Of course, the flag is not used in Vukovar itself at the moment, the city being under protection of the UN, but the results of these elections should change this as one of the main prerogatives of the reintegration of Eastern Slavonia and Baranya in Croatia.
		The coat of arms of Vukovar is modernized version of the previous arms, picturing a maiden standing at the city gates holding a blue shield with golden wolf.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/hr-vu-vu.html (645 words)

	JTA NEWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Vukovar, which borders on Serbia, had 45,000 inhabitants before the Balkan war began in 1991.
		For Croatians, Vukovar is a symbol of resistance and suffering.
		The war crimes committed in Vukovar are part of the indictment against former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, who is being tried by the International Criminal Court for War Crimes in The Hague.
	www.jta.org /story.asp?id=021030-vuko (507 words)

	Vukovar
		Vukovar’s history is similar to other cities in the region.
		By the summer of 1991, the Yugoslav Army was sent in to Vukovar and was joined by a local Serb volunteer militia.
		Vukovar would ultimately return to Croatia following a transitional administration under the UN, Yugoslav forces would be demobilized, both Croatian and Serbian political parties would be permitted, and refugees would be permitted to return home.
	www.crucibleofwar.com /vukovar.htm (834 words)

	Vukovar
		Vukovar, Croatia is a wonderful, fascinating, tragic place.
		Vukovar was the site of some of the most intense fighting.
		I lived in Vukovar in May and June of 1998, and returned in September, 1998.
	www.newstrom.com /vukovar.htm (301 words)

	Vukovar: Milosevic must pay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		According to Dedakovic, the battle for Vukovar was crucial to the defence of the whole country as Milosevic launched a military campaign following Zagreb's proclamation of independence from the former Yugoslavia in June 1991.
		Vukovar tied down JNA military forces for three months, giving Croatia time to arm itself and to raise and train troops.
		After the war ended, Vukovar and its region were put under UN administration and reintegrated into Croatia in January 1998.
	www.news24.com /News24/World/0,,2-10_1286109,00.html (773 words)

	Amended Indictment - Vukovar
		Later that morning, the buses left the hospital compound and proceeded through the centre of Vukovar to the JNA barracks on the south side of the city.
		All of these men were alive after the end of hostilities in Vukovar, and all of these men were taken under JNA guard first to the JNA barracks and then to the Ovcara farm.
		He was the operational commander for the JNA in the latter stages of the siege of Vukovar.
	www.un.org /icty/indictment/english/mrk-1ai960326e.htm (1792 words)

	HRTweb - Vukovar 1991. - 2001.
		Although it is so today, the Vukovar of yesterday is a warning for the future and the Vukovar of tomorrow should be more beautiful.
		Despite inhuman conditions, doctors and medical staff of the Vukovar hospital gave more than their utmost to save lives and offer medical attention to the sick and wounded.
		Unsuccessful were attempts of the International Red Cross to send relief to Vukovar and to the civilians and soldiers defending it who refused to leave...
	www.hrt.hr /arhiv/vukovar/video_eng.html (333 words)

	Involuntary blood taking from Vukovar Serbs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In the Vukovar Hospital, which was between 30 July and 19 November 1991 managed by Dr. Vesna BOSANAC, many serious abuses of medical ethics and international law of war have been committed - from refusal to provide adequate medical treatment to wounded Serb civilians and members of the Serb territorial defense to physical liquidation.
		Among the gravest crimes committed in the Vukovar Hospital, which are that more serious since some perpetrators were physicians, is involuntary blood taking from Serb civilians, who were for this particular purpose forcefully brought into the hospital by the members of the ZNG of the Republic of Croatia.
		Some of them were apprehended at the order of Jastreb, commander of Croatian armed forces in Vukovar, and kept in custody in the ZNG military police prison in the basement of the city hall building until a wounded Croatian soldier would need a transfusion of a particular blood group.
	www.balkan-archive.org.yu /politics/war_crimes/vukovar/vukovar9d.html (679 words)

	Amazon.com: The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar: Books: Gilles Peress,Eric Stover,Justice Richard J. Goldstone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The sack of the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar in 1991 by Serb forces, and the subsequent mass murder of over 200 patients and staff from the local hospital is still a powerful and pivotal event, not only because of the sheer magnitude of the atrocity, but also because it was the first.
		Vukovar came before the siege of Sarajevo, the rape and torture camps in Prijedor and Foca and elsewhere, before the destruction of Mostar bridge, and the massacre at Srebrenica.
		Vukovar set the standard for the atrocities that were to come, and eight years after its destruction, the town is still a hollowed-out ruin with weeds poking through shattered buildings and one-fourth of its prewar population clinging precariously to subsistence in a destroyed economy.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/3931141861?v=glance (1996 words)

	Vukovar Things To Do - Travel Guides - VirtualTourist.com
		In the house in Vukovar where he was born a museum was opened in his honour in 1977, as part of the Vukovar museum.
		Thirteen years after the destruction center of Vukovar remains ghost town with destroyed houses where the only living thing is the vegetation growing between the remaining walls.
		The Eltz castle in Vukovar was one of the most important examples of baroque castles in Croatia, and with its size and urban significance definitely one of the most monumental.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Croatia/Slavonia/Vukovar-384226/Things_To_Do-Vukovar-R-1.html (1357 words)

	Vukovar-Srijem County (Croatia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		One of the richest counties, the County of Vukovar-Srijem was occupied in 1991, and heavily damaged, its capital Vukovar, being a symbol of Croatian resistance in the war, is totally destroyed.
		In the administrative reform of 1993 the county of Vukovar and Srijem was formed, which considered itself the inheritor of the former Srijem county (Due to the Serb occupation of Vukovar, the temoprarily seat of administration was made in Vinkovci, and still today there are certain offices there).
		However, the flags in use today in Vukovar are both these vertical flags (which do show considerably wear and tear, so must have been haging there for years) as well as the usual horizontal flags (that are obviously very new and I do not believe that they have been around for the last winter).
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/hr-vu.html (1611 words)

	Atmosphere of fear and ethnic cleansing of Vukovar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The plan on ethnic cleansing of Vukovar municipality was adopted on 15 March 1991 at the meeting of leading Croatian Democratic Union representatives on the premises of the local community ”Alojzije Stepinac" in Borovo Naselje.
		After 2 May 1991, when they separated Vukovar by numerous barricades and checkpoints from predominantly Serb settlements, members of regular and reserve police forces and National Guard Corps of the Republic of Croatia, as well as some twenty bodyguards of Tomislav MERCEP started to terrorize Serb population in the city.
		At that time, for many Vukovar Serbs, particularly those living in family houses, cellar were the only safe refuge at night, since armed HDZ activists patrolled the streets at night and often fired at Serb houses.
	www.balkan-archive.org.yu /politics/war_crimes/vukovar/vukovar7a.html (2131 words)

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		Vukovar is located at the confluence of the Vuka and Danube.
		The city itself is first mentioned in 1131 AD as “Castrum Vaklow.” Vukovar is the largest Croatian river port.
		This was one of the heavily damaged counties, with the city of Vukovar and all its cultural monuments completely destroyed in the war.
	free-vk.htnet.hr /bridz (236 words)

	BEGINNING OF ARMED CONFLICTS AROUND VUKOVAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Croatian police and ZNG of the Republic in Croatia in Vukovar were not strong enough to deblock the barricaded Serb villages through an armed action and to forcibly establish the Croatian authority in them or, more precisely, to purge them from Serb population, as they had already done in Vukovar.
		Judging by this report, Vukovar was then for a few hours under full control of YPA units, which also took possession of the road towards Bogdanovci, the only way which the Croatian armed forces could use to enter and leave the city.
		The public also failed to notice that Serbs from Vukovar were the biggest victims and losers in the war nightmare around Vukovar - they were killed on both sides of the front-line and, in addition, experienced terrible pogroms in partly surrounded city, which YPA did not want or could not capture for a long time.
	www.balkan-archive.org.yu /politics/war_crimes/vukovar/vukovar8.html (1222 words)

	SkyscraperCity - Vukovar, Croatia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It was during, and because of the siege of Vukovar, that the people of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina were fully convinced that Slobodan Milosevic, and his army's interests were not to preserve Yugoslavia - but instead to destroy it, in every sense that a multiethnic country can be destroyed.
		Vukovar is a "Siege Sister" of Sarajevo and Dubrovnik.
		One of the most famous pictures of the war in the former Yugoslavia was taken in Vukovar in 1991.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=212944 (1065 words)

	Vukovar, Croatia
		Vukovar (Hungarian: Vukovár) is a city in Croatia, population 20,301 (2001).
		It is located at the confluence of the Vuka river into the Danube and is the center of the Vukovar-Srijem county.
		Its economy is based on farming, viticulture, livestock breeding, textile and food-processing industry.
	creekin.net /c2980-n48-vukovar-croatia.html (233 words)

	Vukovar, 1
		A larger number of Serbs stayed in Vukovar after this region returned under Croatia State's jurisdiction in 1998 where as the Croatian returnees still are a few because shortness of proper accommodation and jobs.
		Few kilometers down the main road we turned of to visit Vukovar's new cemetery where the victims of aggression and occupancy were laid to rest including those who were massacred at the "Ovcara".
		Then in 1995 one man from Vukovar, who escaped injured the massacre, told about what happened to those wounded persons snatched from the Hospital describing the place were they were buried secretly far out from any view.
	www.hr /darko/etf/vukovar.html (3146 words)

	HRTweb - Vukovar 1991. - 2001.
		The officers of the former federal army were interviews at the approaches to Vukovar by Serbian media and they want to speak about the task that has been put before them i.e.
		The Vukovar daily routine is totally intertwined with war terror from the first to the last second.
		All the promises by Croatian civilian and military authorities that Vukovar has not been left to its own devices will be taken seriously only when this unbearable situation that has been going on for the third month now is brought to an end.
	www.hrt.hr /arhiv/vukovar/rv15_eng.html (332 words)

	Balkans: Vukovar Massacre Trial Begins In The Hague - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The siege of Vukovar was one of the key events in Croatia's 1991-95 war of independence.
		Few realized it at the time, but what happened in Vukovar in the cold, wet autumn of 1991 was a herald of what was yet to come.
		In August, the JNA began a siege of Vukovar that was to last three months and that would raze the town.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2005/10/F690F7DB-3C04-4FB6-A9AC-02AFCCAC4375.html (839 words)

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