Original scientific paper
The Influence of the Serbian Military Aggression on Ethnic Changes in the Vukovar-Srijem County from 1991 to 2001
Dražen ŽIVIĆ
Abstract
In this article the author indicates the most important changes
in the ethnic structure of the population in the Vukovar-Srijem
County from the year 1991 to 2001. With regard to
accessibility of data from the last 2001 census, the changes
mentioned could have been analysed and presented integrally
only on county level and on the levels of its administrative and
territorial constituents (cities and municipalities). However, even
these indicators have confirmed that the ethnic structure of
population in this county has experienced certain changes in
the last decade, which can be defined as: a mild growth in the
number and somewhat stronger increase in the share of
Croats in the total population of the county and in most cities
and municipalities; as a sharper fall of the number and share
of non-Croat ethnic groups, among which the Serbian ethnic
group especially stands out with its demographic regression;
further ethnic homogenisation of the county in the sense of a
more pronounced Croatian majority, which can in fact be
observed throughout the 20th century, and which was undoubtedly confirmed by the 2001 census. The most
important external factor of contemporary ethnic changes in
the Vukovar-Srijem County was the Serbian military aggression
which triggered dynamic migrations in this area. The
phenomena of displaced persons, refugees, economic
emigration and emigration of Serbs – in addition to the direct
demographic losses due to war – have caused not only a
decline in the number of members of certain ethnic groups in
the county but also the depopulation of the entire area.
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19276
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Publication date:
31.12.2003.
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