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| Coordinates:45°22′N18°48′E / 45.367°N 18.800°E /45.367; 18.800 | |
| Country |  Croatia |
| County |  Vukovar-Syrmia |
| Municipal seat Largest settlement | Tordinci Antin |
| Area | |
| 50.2 km2 (19.4 sq mi) | |
| • Urban | 22.3 km2 (8.6 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[2] | |
| 1,657 | |
| • Density | 33.0/km2 (85.5/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 594 |
| • Urban density | 26.6/km2 (69.0/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | ? |
| Area code | 32 |
| Vehicle registration | VK |
| Website | www |
Tordinci (Hungarian:Valkótard) is avillage and a municipality in theVukovar-Syrmia County inCroatia.
Tordinci is underdeveloped municipality which is statistically classified as theFirst Category Area of Special State Concern by theGovernment of Croatia.[3]
The name of the village inCroatian is plural.
According to the 2001 census, there are 2,251 inhabitants, in the followingsettlements:[4]
By ethnicity, 77.61% areCroats, 18.26% areHungarians, 3.54% areSerbs.[5] With pronounced issue ofpopulation decline in eastern Croatia caused bypopulation ageing, effects of theCroatian War of Independence and emigration after theaccession of Croatia to the European Union, the population of the municipality dropped to 1,657 residents at the time of 2021 census.
Although though theGovernment of the Republic of Croatia does not guarantee official Croatian-Hungarian bilinguialism here, the statute of Tordinci itself does.[6]: 3 Preserving traditional Hungarian place names and assigning street names to Hungarian historical figures is legally mandated and carried out.[6]: 135
Directly elected minority councils and representatives are tasked with consulting tasks for the local or regional authorities in which they are advocating for minority rights and interests, integration into public life and participation in the management of local affairs.[7] At the2023 Croatian national minorities councils and representatives electionsHungarians andSerbs of Croatia each fulfilled legal requirements to elect 10 members minority councils of the Tordinci Municipality with Serb community electing only 6 members to its council.[8]
During theCroatian War of Independence, Tordinci was attacked for the first time by artillery on 14 August 1991.[9] New artillery attacks occurred for three consecutive days, on 20–22 August, and were repeated on 30 August.[10] A further artillery attack on the village were recorded on 2 September and one more two days later. On 6 September, Tordinci was shelled again and attacked byCroatian SerbTerritorial Defense Forces (TO) and theYugoslav People's Army (JNA) infantry at 20:00. The infantry attack was successfully repulsed by theCroatian National Guard (ZNG). A series of artillery attacks occurred on 15–29 September, while the JNA and the ZNG fought for control of the JNA barracks in nearbyVinkovci.[11] A fresh ground assault on Tordinci was repulsed by the ZNG on 30 September. The next day, civilian population started to flee Tordinci, panicking after the Croatian Serb TO and JNA capturedAntin the previous day. On 2 October, defence of Tordinci was reinforced by 97 ZNG troops of the 109th Infantry Brigade, before a new mortar attack on the village the following day.[12] On 25 October, 30 JNA tanks, supported by infantry, surrounded Tordinci at 22:00. The force captured the village the next day after heavy fighting. During the battle, the ZNG sustained eight fatalities and nine troops were injured before the ZNG retreated from Tordinci.[13]
In 2004, amass grave was discovered in Tordinci,[14] and a total of 208 sets of human remains were recovered in the village by 2012. Since 2002, a 22-kilometre (14 mi) memorial procession is held annually through Tordinci, Antin,Ćelije and Korog - villages where mass graves of 266 Croatian soldiers and civilians were found after the war.[15]
In the war,Serb forces destroyed the bell towers of a Catholic parish in the village of Tordinci by artillery fire. In 2008 the towers were restored.[16]
In 2009, Croatian State Attorney's Office chargedColonel Boro Ivanović withwar crimes committed against civilians in the village. The charges include killing of 22 civilians on 25 October 1991, after the a tank company of theYugoslav People's Army 12th Proletarian Mechanised Brigade, supported bySerb paramilitaries, captured the village. The State Attorney's Office also said that 11 additional civilians were arrested, physically abused and taken to theBegejci camp in Serbia.[17]
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