Marinci | |
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Coordinates: 45°20′23″N 18°54′01″E / 45.339854°N 18.900229°E | |
Country | Croatia |
County | Vukovar-Syrmia |
Municipality | Nuštar |
Area | |
• Total | 13.3 km2 (5.1 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[2] | |
• Total | 437 |
• Density | 33/km2 (85/sq mi) |
Marinci is a village in the Nuštar municipality in the Vukovar-Syrmia County in eastern Croatia located northeast of Vinkovci and southwest of Vukovar. The population is 670 (census 2011).[3]
The village is located on the county road Ž4137 Nuštar-Bogdanovci-Vukovar[4] and its position was strategically important during the 1991 Battle of Vukovar.[5][6]
Marinci were built on the foundations of an older Roman settlement. A Catholic church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built in the center of the village in 1855, demolished in 1992 and rebuilt in 2005. [7]
The name of the village in Croatian is plural.