Borovo, Croatia

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Borovo
Borovo (Croatia)
Borovo
Borovo
Borovo (Croatia)
County Vukovar-Srijem
Latitude 45.38
Longitude 18.97
Mayor  ?
Surface (mi²)  ?
Population
(2006)
5,360 (municipality)
Time zone (UTC) UTC+1 Central European Time

Borovo (Serbian Cyrillic: Борово), previously called Borovo Selo (Борово Село), is a village and a municipality in eastern Slavonia (Vukovar-Srijem County), Croatia. It has a population of 5,360 (2001), the majority of the population being Serbian (86.56%).

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[edit] Geography

The village of Borovo is located a few kilometers north from Vukovar, and the neighbourhood of the northwestern industrial part of Vukovar, Borovo Naselje (the Borovo settlement), which is named after it.

[edit] History

In 1991, Borovo was briefly in the spotlight as the site of the Borovo Selo killings.

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Coordinates: 45°23′N, 18°58′E