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Petrovaradin Fortress, Novi Sad
A massive 18th-century fortress known as the Gibraltar of the Danube, famous for hosting the EXIT music festival each summer.
54 km · about 60 min drive
Vukovar-Srijem, Croatia · Europe
Lovas sits on the route: 10 minutes from Tompojevci, 54km from Petrovaradin Fortress, Novi Sad.
Lovas is a town located in Vukovar-Srijem, Croatia. With a population of 728, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Lovas sits in Croatia, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Zagreb time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Lovas to your route.
The Lovas killings (Croatian: masakr u Lovasu, Serbian: zločini u Lovasu, злочини у Ловасу) involved the killing of 70 Croat civilian residents of the village of Lovas between 10 and 18 October 1991, during the Croatian War of Independence. The killings took place during and in the immediate aftermath of theRead more
occupation of the village by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) supported by Croatian Serb forces and Dušan the Mighty Forces. On 10 October, two days after Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia. The occupation occurred during the Battle of Vukovar, as the JNA sought to consolidate its control over the area surrounding the city of Vukovar. The killings and abuse of the civilian population continued until 18 October, when troops guarding a group of civilians forced them to walk into a minefield at gunpoint and then opened fire upon them.
After the Croatian Serb forces, the JNA and the paramilitaries established their control in the village, the Croat population was required to wear white armbands and mark their houses using white sheets. The church in Lovas was torched and 261 houses were looted and destroyed, while 1,341 civilians were forced to leave their homes. The bodies of the victims were retrieved from a mass grave and ten individual graves in 1997. Lovas was rebuilt after the war, but its population size shrank by one third compared to its pre-war level.
The occupation of Lovas and the killing and expulsion of its civilian population was included in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) indictments of the President of Serbia, Slobodan Milošević, and Goran Hadžić, a high-ranking official of the Croatian Serb-declared wartime breakaway region of SAO Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia. Both Milošević and Hadžić died before their trials could be completed. Serbian authorities tried and convicted a group of four for the killings, but a retrial was ordered following an appeal in 2014. Croatia indicted 17 persons in connection with the killings, although only two were available to the authorities. One of them was acquitted and the other declared unfit to stand trial.
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Lovas is located in Vukovar-Srijem, Croatia, Europe. The coordinates are 45.2264 latitude, 19.1711 longitude.
Lovas has a population of approximately 728 people, making it a town in Croatia.
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A massive 18th-century fortress known as the Gibraltar of the Danube, famous for hosting the EXIT music festival each summer.
54 km · about 60 min drive
April to October
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