Mikluševci

Mikluševci (Rusyn: Миклошевци)[3] is a village in Croatia.

Mikluševci

Миклошевци (Rusyn)[1]
Village (Selo)
Mikluševci
Location in Croatia
Coordinates: 45°15′05″N 19°05′05″E
Country Croatia
RegionSyrmia (Podunavlje)
County Vukovar-Syrmia
MunicipalityTompojevci
Population
 (2011)
 • Total375[2]
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Name

The name of the village in Croatian is in the plural, and therefore it is grammatically correct to refer to it as "Mikluševci are" instead of "Mikluševci is". A hypothetical singular version of the name would be Mikluševac. Other than Croatian and Pannonian Rusyn the village is known as Миклушевци in Serbian, Szentmiklós in Hungarian and Sankt Niklas in German language.

History

During the Croatian War of Independence, the Croatian Serb forces captured the village on 8 October 1991. Following the capture of the village, a family of three was killed by the Croatian Serb forces in the nearby Jelaš Forest, and 92 were expelled. A total of 35 persons were charged with the killings in 1996 by Croatian authorities in Osijek. By 2009, when the trial had concluded, eleven defendants died, and charges against ten were dropped. Twelve were convicted to prison sentences ranging from four to fifteen years and two were acquitted. Most of the defendants were tried in absentia—only three defendants were present at the sentencing.[4]

References
  1. Government of Croatia (October 2013). "Peto izvješće Republike Hrvatske o primjeni Europske povelje o regionalnim ili manjinskim jezicima" (PDF) (in Croatian). Council of Europe. p. 36. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  2. "POPISANE OSOBE, KUĆANSTVA I STAMBENE JEDINICE, PRVI REZULTATI POPISA 2011. PO NASELJIMA, page 83" (PDF). Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  3. "Minority names in Croatia:Registar Geografskih Imena Nacionalnih Manjina Republike Hrvatske" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2013-03-08.
  4. Obrenović, Mladen (5 February 2009). "Presuda za ratni zločin: Mikluševačkoj skupini ukupno 83 godine" [War Crime Verdict: Mikluševci Group Sentenced to Total of 83 Years]. Slobodna Dalmacija (in Croatian).
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