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Bobota, Croatia
Bobota (Serbian Cyrillic: Бобота) is a village in the Municipality of Trpinja in Vukovar-Syrmia County in eastern Croatia. Regional Bobota Canal, the first major water management project in modern-day Croatia in the post-Roman Empire period, was named after the village.
According to 2011 Census Bobota, had a population of 1,491 inhabitants. Bobota is centrally located within the municipality and is its largest settlement with its total population just marginally ahead of Trpinja. The village is located south of the D2 road and part of the Osijek Airport plot, including a part of the runway, is within its cadastral boundaries. The village is also located centrally in the triangle of the nearby cities of Osijek, Vukovar and Vinkovci.
Villages of Trpinja, Bobota and Vera share the common folk story on the origin of their names. According to the story, the ancestors of today's inhabitants of villages, who settled at the time of the Great Serb Migrations under Arsenije III Čarnojević, were called Bobe. They fled from the Ottoman Empire conquests of Balkan in their effort to preserve their religious freedom.
This legendary religious commitment to Eastern Orthodoxy was coined in the local phrase of Bobe endured for the faith or originally in Serbian Bobe trpiše za veru. The family name of 'Bobe' was used as the basis for the name of Bobota, the word 'endured' (Serbo-Croatian: trpiti) for the name of Trpinja and from the word for faith (Serbian: vera) the name of Vera was created.
Bobota, just slightly ahead of Trpinja, is the largest settlement in the municipality. Bobota is surrounded by Pačetin to the south, Ćelije to the west, Vera to the north and Trpinja, Lipovača and Bršadin to the east. Fertile intensive agricultural land and lowland forests are the main characteristics of the landscape. The Bobota Canal passes just north of the village separating a small part of it from the rest of the village.
The earliest recorded human settlement in the area of Bobota dates back to classical antiquity with the northeast archeologically site of Staro Ljeskovo containing IV century Roman bricks marked with "I H" inscription. Those bricks indicate the presence of the Legio VI Herculia's station in the area at that time. Other types of artefacts were discovered at the same location including Roman glazed ceramics, terra sigillata, glass and oil lamps with reliefs and a stone altar with the inscription of the tribune "Titus Flavius Marcianus" and with recognized potential for further archaeological excavations.
According to primary written sources medieval village of Bobota existed under the name "Bobuta" as early as 1269 with medieval settlement being located slightly to the northwest on the left bank of the Vuka river, in a place called Stara Bobota. In 1366 "Babacha" was mentioned in a report to King Louis I of Hungary. During the Ottoman–Hungarian wars the village was conquered in 1526 after the fall of Vukovar but it remained inhabited in 1558. The village was liberated from the Ottoman rule in 1687 remaining uninhabited for the following ten years. The first 14 Serb families subsequently settled in the abandoned village building their homes close to the old village. Following Ottoman retreat from the region, the Lordship of Vukovar was established, and the village became part of its domain in 1725. In following years Serb settlement continued with families arriving from Bačka, Mačva, Montenegro and Baranya so that in 1736 there was already 82 households. The oldest book about Bobota was published in 1750. Jewish family Wellisch (Velić) moved from Vukovar to Bobota in 1850s where they initiated their trade business with Leopold Wellisch (Lavoslav Velić) being born in the village in 1861 and died in Vienna in 1914.
From 27 December 1920 (when they arrived in Vukovar) soldiers and families of the White Russian émigrés who were followers of Pyotr Wrangel settled in Bobota, Pačetin, Trpinja and Vera.
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Bobota, Croatia
Bobota (Serbian Cyrillic: Бобота) is a village in the Municipality of Trpinja in Vukovar-Syrmia County in eastern Croatia. Regional Bobota Canal, the first major water management project in modern-day Croatia in the post-Roman Empire period, was named after the village.
According to 2011 Census Bobota, had a population of 1,491 inhabitants. Bobota is centrally located within the municipality and is its largest settlement with its total population just marginally ahead of Trpinja. The village is located south of the D2 road and part of the Osijek Airport plot, including a part of the runway, is within its cadastral boundaries. The village is also located centrally in the triangle of the nearby cities of Osijek, Vukovar and Vinkovci.
Villages of Trpinja, Bobota and Vera share the common folk story on the origin of their names. According to the story, the ancestors of today's inhabitants of villages, who settled at the time of the Great Serb Migrations under Arsenije III Čarnojević, were called Bobe. They fled from the Ottoman Empire conquests of Balkan in their effort to preserve their religious freedom.
This legendary religious commitment to Eastern Orthodoxy was coined in the local phrase of Bobe endured for the faith or originally in Serbian Bobe trpiše za veru. The family name of 'Bobe' was used as the basis for the name of Bobota, the word 'endured' (Serbo-Croatian: trpiti) for the name of Trpinja and from the word for faith (Serbian: vera) the name of Vera was created.
Bobota, just slightly ahead of Trpinja, is the largest settlement in the municipality. Bobota is surrounded by Pačetin to the south, Ćelije to the west, Vera to the north and Trpinja, Lipovača and Bršadin to the east. Fertile intensive agricultural land and lowland forests are the main characteristics of the landscape. The Bobota Canal passes just north of the village separating a small part of it from the rest of the village.
The earliest recorded human settlement in the area of Bobota dates back to classical antiquity with the northeast archeologically site of Staro Ljeskovo containing IV century Roman bricks marked with "I H" inscription. Those bricks indicate the presence of the Legio VI Herculia's station in the area at that time. Other types of artefacts were discovered at the same location including Roman glazed ceramics, terra sigillata, glass and oil lamps with reliefs and a stone altar with the inscription of the tribune "Titus Flavius Marcianus" and with recognized potential for further archaeological excavations.
According to primary written sources medieval village of Bobota existed under the name "Bobuta" as early as 1269 with medieval settlement being located slightly to the northwest on the left bank of the Vuka river, in a place called Stara Bobota. In 1366 "Babacha" was mentioned in a report to King Louis I of Hungary. During the Ottoman–Hungarian wars the village was conquered in 1526 after the fall of Vukovar but it remained inhabited in 1558. The village was liberated from the Ottoman rule in 1687 remaining uninhabited for the following ten years. The first 14 Serb families subsequently settled in the abandoned village building their homes close to the old village. Following Ottoman retreat from the region, the Lordship of Vukovar was established, and the village became part of its domain in 1725. In following years Serb settlement continued with families arriving from Bačka, Mačva, Montenegro and Baranya so that in 1736 there was already 82 households. The oldest book about Bobota was published in 1750. Jewish family Wellisch (Velić) moved from Vukovar to Bobota in 1850s where they initiated their trade business with Leopold Wellisch (Lavoslav Velić) being born in the village in 1861 and died in Vienna in 1914.
From 27 December 1920 (when they arrived in Vukovar) soldiers and families of the White Russian émigrés who were followers of Pyotr Wrangel settled in Bobota, Pačetin, Trpinja and Vera.
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