Vera | |
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 Location of Vera in Croatia | |
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| Coordinates:45°25′N18°54′E / 45.417°N 18.900°E /45.417; 18.900 | |
| Country |  Croatia |
| Region | Slavonia (Podunavlje) |
| County |  Vukovar-Syrmia |
| Municipality | Trpinja |
| Government | |
| • Body | Local Committee |
| Area | |
• Total | 16.5 km2 (6.4 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[4] | |
• Total | 346 |
| • Density | 21.0/km2 (54.3/sq mi) |
| Demonym(s) | Veranin (♂) Veranka (♀) (pergrammatical gender) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 32 225 |
| Area code | +385 (0)32 |
| Vehicle registration | VU |
| Official languages | Croatian,Serbian[2] |
Vera (Serbian Cyrillic:Вера[5]) is avillage inTrpinja Municipality in easternCroatia. The village is the northernmost settlement of theVukovar-Syrmia County.
The villages ofTrpinja,Bobota and Vera share a common legend about the origin of their names. According to the legend, the ancestors of today's inhabitants of villages, who settled at the time of theGreat Serb Migrations underArsenije III Čarnojević, were called Bobe. They were fleeing from theOttoman Empire conquests of Balkan as they wanted to preserve theirreligious freedom.
This legendary religious commitment and orthodoxy was coined in the local phraseBobe endured for the faith or originally in SerbianBobe trpiše za veru. The family name of 'Bobe' was used as the basis for the name of Bobota, the word 'endured' (Serbian:trpiti) the name of Trpinja was created and from the word of faith (Serbian:vera) the name of Vera was coined.[6]
Area of Vera and neighboring Trpinja and Bobota have the lowest elevation among the villages north of the Vuka River within their country.[7]
The first written mention of the village of "Were" comes from 1400 with subsequent references in 1443, 1460 and 1482.[8] The settlement was conquered by theOttoman Empire in 1526 after the fall ofVukovar and it was liberated in 1687 after more than 150 years of Ottoman rule.
After theTreaty of Karlowitz the village became a part of Vukovar estate. The village was initially owned by the Kuffstein family, then from 1736 by the Eltz family who will build theirEltz Manor in Vukovar as a center of the estate. The village appeared under the name of Vera in János Lipszky'sRepertorium published inBuda in 1808.[9] Lajos Nagy's work published in 1829 states that there was 90 houses, with 22 Roman Catholic and 698 Eastern Orthodox inhabitants in the village.[10]
Up until the mid-19th century area of Vera was a part of much larger Palača Swamplands.[11] After the completion ofBobota Canal surrounding areas were transformed into agricultural lands.[11] From 27 December 1920 (when they arrived in Vukovar) soldiers and families of theWhite Russian émigrés who were followers ofPyotr Wrangel settled inBobota,Pačetin,Bršadin, Trpinja and Vera.[12]
Serbian Language andSerbian Cyrillic alphabet is the secondofficial language in most of the villages of the Municipality of Trpinja (except Ćelije) alongside theCroatian language which is official at the national level.[1] Both Serbian and Croatian language are standardized varieties of thepluricentricSerbo-Croatian language. According to the Municipal Statute, individuals who are members of the Serbiannational minority are ensured thefreedom of expression of national belonging and freedom to use their language and script in public and private use on the whole territory of the Municipality including the village of Vera.[1] The statute guarantees that theSerbian Cyrillic alphabet will be used in the same font size as the Latin alphabet in the text of the local seals and stamps, on official plates of public representatives, executive and administrative bodies, as well as on those of legal persons with public authorities.[1]
According to the municipal Statute, bilingual signs of the same font are used for written traffic signs and other written traffic markings, street and squares names and names of settlement and geographical localities on the entire territory of the Municipality.[1] Equal public use of Serbian language is required on the basis of theConstitutional Act on the Rights of National Minorities in the Republic of Croatia and relevant national laws and the country is a party to theEuropean Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.[2]
Branch school of theElementary School Bobota is located in Vera. Education at the local schools is carried out inSerbian similarly to many other schools in eastern Croatia since the days of peaceful reintegration of the region completed in 1998.[13] The first school in Vera was opened in 1789.
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