Island of Å arengrad

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The Šarengradska Ada is an inland island in the Danube, which is disputed between the province of Vojvodina, northern Serbia, and the Vukovar- Syrmia County, eastern Croatia.

Within the former Yugoslavia belonged to the island, which is named after the Croatian lying on the banks of place Šarengrad, the Republic of Croatia. With the disintegration of Yugoslavia, a Serbian parallel state was founded belonged ( the so-called Republic of Serbian Krajina ), which also includes parts of Eastern Slavonia on the border with Serbia on Croatian territory. The entire Croatian Danube shore was part of this unrecognized republic. As the western and most important areas of the Serb Republic of Krajina were captured in the summer of 1995 by Croatian troops remained only Eastern Slavonia under Serb control.

In agreement Erdut the Serbian and Croatian side agreed to return to insinuate Eastern Slavonia in a peaceful way the Croatian administration. Despite the fact that Croatia before the war left the Danube floodplains and numerous river islands, which towered into the Serbian territory possessed, the middle reaches of the Danube has been defined as a state border between Serbia and Croatia. Thus, there is the Šarengradska Ada since 1998 officially on Serbian territory. Croatia go against demanding the return of the 115 km ² large islands and floodplains on the left, the Serbian side of the Danube.