Mirkovci
| Mirkovci | |
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  Mirkovci | |
| Coordinates: HR 45°16′16″N 18°51′00″E / 45.271°N 18.850°ECoordinates: HR 45°16′16″N 18°51′00″E / 45.271°N 18.850°E | |
| Country |
 Croatia |
| County |
 Vukovar-Srijem |
| City | Vinkovci |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
| • Total | 3,283 |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| Vehicle registration | VK |
Mirkovci (Hungarian: Szegfalu, Serbian Cyrillic: Мирковци) is a village and the suburb of town Vinkovci, in eastern Croatia. It is in the Syrmia region, located immediately southeast of Vinkovci. The Vinkovci-Gunja railway separates it from the rest of the city. The population is 3,283 (census 2011).
History
In the vicinity, the Roman town of Cibalae (Vinkovci) was the birthplace of Valentinian I in 321.
During the Second World War, 107 ethnic Serbs were transferred and killed in the Jasenovac concentration camp by the Croatian fascist Ustashe.[2]
The majority of the inhabitants are ethnic Serbs. A former village, Milovanci (Hungarian: Monostormilvány) is today part of Mirkovci.
Croatian War of Independence
During the Croatian War of Independence, Mirkovci was under Serb control as a part of self-proclaimed SAO Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia (1991–1992), Republic of Serbian Krajina (1992-1995) and United Nations protectorate of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia (1995-1998).[3] In his book Warrior's Honour: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience, Canadian author Michael Ignatieff writes;
- Theorists like Samuel Huntington, would lead me to believe that there is a fault line running through the back gardens of Mirkovci [a village in eastern Croatia], with the Croats in the bunker representing the civilization of the Catholic Roman West and the Serbs nearby representing Byzantium, Orthodoxy, and the Cyrillic East. ... here in Mirkovci, I don't see civilizational fault lines, geological templates that have split apart. These metaphors take for granted what needs to be explained: how neighbors once ignorant of very idea that they belong to opposed civilizations begin to think-and hate-in these terms, how they vilify and demonize people they once called friends... [4]
See also
References
- ↑ "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements, 2011 Census: Mirkovci". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.
- ↑ https://cp13.heritagewebdesign.com/~lituchy/victim_search.php?field=origin&searchtype=contains&data=mirkovci
- ↑ http://www.icty.org/x/cases/kordic/trans/en/991019it.htm
- ↑ Michael Ignatieff, Warrior's Honour: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience (New York: Henry Holt, 1997), p. 36
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