UTJECAJ SRBIJANSKE ORUŽANE AGRESIJE NA ETNIČKE PROMJENE U VUKOVARSKO-SRIJEMSKOJ ŽUPANIJI OD 1991. DO 2001. GODINE
THE INFLUENCE OF THE SERBIAN MILITARY AGGRESSION ON ETHNIC CHANGES IN THE VUKOVAR-SRIJEM COUNTY FROM 1991 TO 2001

Summary/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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