Island of Vukovar

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The Vukovarska Ada is an inland island in the Danube in Vojvodina in northern Serbia on the Croatian border. The wooded main island and several smaller islands are uninhabited.

Border disputes

Within the former Yugoslavia belonged to the island, which is named after the Croatian lying on the banks of place Vukovar, the Republic of Croatia. With the disintegration of Yugoslavia, the internationally unrecognized republic of Serbian Krajina was established on Croatian territory, among which even parts of Eastern Slavonia on the border with Serbia. The entire Croatian Danube bank was part of that area. When the Western and the most important parts 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. Accordingly, the Vukovarska Ada since 1998 is officially on Serbian territory. Croatia go against demanding the return of the islands and floodplains on the left, the Serbian side of the Danube.