Borovo, Croatia

Borovo (Serbian Cyrillic: Борово, Hungarian: Boró, German: Worow), also known as Borovo Selo (Serbian Cyrillic: Борово Село; lit. 'Borovo Village'; ), is a village and a municipality in Vukovar-Syrmia County in eastern part of Croatia. Situated on the banks of the Danube river, it shares its border with Serbia and the municipality of Bač on the opposite side. The historical development of Borovo is closely linked with the Danube, which has played a central role in its development as a notable industrial hub in the region.

The etymological genesis of the toponym "Borovo" stems from the Serbo-Croatian word "bor" which signifies "pines." Although Borovo is an independent municipality, it is physically contiguous with the neighbouring town of Vukovar and functions as its satellite settlement. Borovo is the most populous settlement in Croatia in which ethnic Serbs constitute a majority of the population. It's Serb community also ranks as the second-largest Serbian community in the county, coming after the Serb community in Vukovar itself.

During the early 1990s process of breakup of Yugoslavia, Borovo was affected by escalating interethnic tensions in the Socialist Republic of Croatia. This volatile atmosphere culminated in the 1991 Battle of Borovo Selo, one of the first armed clashes in the conflict which became known as the Croatian War of Independence. Borovo became a part of the self-proclaimed unrecognized SAO Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia within the self-declared proto-state Republic of Serbian Krajina. Since the end of the war and the UNTAES transition in 1998, Borovo is one of the municipalities which according to the 1995 Erdut Agreement elect its representatives to the Joint Council of Municipalities, a consultative body of Serb minority's cultural autonomy in the region.