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Exploring Slavonia and Baranja

Slavonia, the region between the rivers Sava, Drava and
Danube, is made up of a vast rolling alluvial plain with chains
of hills at its edges which are covered in woods and vineyards.
At one time the rivers turned the area into an enormous swamp
for many months of the year. Baranja is a triangular area of
land in the far northeast, bordered at the extreme tip by
the rivers Drava and Danube and the Hungarian border.
The plains are covered in fields of maize and the hills are
given over to viticulture. In the southern corner, the Drava
river regularly overflows from spring
to autumn to create a broad area
of marshland, now the Kopački Varaždin
Rit Nature Park. The park is an Pitomača
important wildlife sanctuary, a
refuge for hundreds of different Neteča Baroque belfry of
Drava
species of bird, including the Špišić Gradina St Roch in Virovitica
rare black stork. B i l o G o r a Bukovica TOPOLJE
On the right bank of the Drava VIROVITICA Batina
river is Slavonia’s main city, Osijek. Suhopolje Beli
It has wide avenues, parks, and Viljevo DONJI MIHOLJAC Manastir Danube
19th-century, Viennese-style Slatina Čađavica Kneževi
Vinogradi
buildings, as well as a VIROVITIČKO- Drava
Neo-Gothic cathedral. PODRAVSKA VALPOVO
Voćin Ceralije Čačinci Petnjevci DARDA
DARUVAR BIZOVAC KOPAČKI RIT
Bilje NATURE PARK
OSIJEK
P a p u k
ORAHOVICA Feričanci Brođanci Čepin
Velika OSJEČKO- Tenja ERDUT
NAŠICE Antunovac Dalj
Sights at a Glance Pakrac Kamenska BARANJSKA
1 Daruvar KUTJEVO Vuka
2 Lipik LIPIK P s u n j ERNESTINOVO
POŽEŠKO-SLAVONSKA
3 Nova Gradiška Borovo
Jakšić
4 Požega Brestovac POŽEGA Jarmina Nuštar VUKOVAR
5 Kutjevo Zagreb ĐAKOVO
6 Slavonski Brod NOVA Pleternica NOVI MIKANOVCI Ivankovo VINKOVCI Danube
7 Vrpolje GRADIŠKA Staro Petrovo Selo Rokovci
ŠARENGRAD
8 Ðakovo Orijava VRPOLJE VUKOVARSKO- ILOK
Donji
9 Novi Mikanovci BRODSKO-POSAVSKA Podvinje Andrijevci Cerna SRIJEMSKA
0 Županja Banja Luka Oriovac SLAVONSKI Velika Gradište Tovarnik
q Vinkovci BROD Kopanica Babina Greda Otok
w Ilok
e Šarengrad ŽUPANJA Bosut Belgrade
r Vukovar
t Erdut Zenica
y Osijek pp194–7 Sarajevo
u Ernestinovo
i Kopački Rit Nature Park
pp198–9 Gunja
o Topolje
p Darda
a Bizovac
s Valpovo
d Donji Miholjac
f Našice
g Orahovica
h Virovitica The countryside around Slavonski Brod
For hotels and restaurants in this region see p231 and pp247–8
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