Pačetin
Pačetin (, ) is a village in the municipality of Trpinja, Vukovar-Syrmia County in the easternmost part of Croatia. At the time of the 2011 Census the population of the village was 541. Village lies north of the Vuka River and west of the M601 railway. Its major landmark is the Church of St. Nicholas from the 18th century. County road Ž4111 passing through the villages of Pačetin, Bobota and Vera connect all three villages with D2 road and D55 road. Pačetin is 28.6 km southeast of Osijek, the economic and cultural centre of Slavonia and 17.2 km from the  Osijek Airport. County seat Vukovar is 17.3 km east of Pačetin. Geography. Absolute altitudes of the village is 87 meters above the sea level. Pačetin is located two kilometers away from the Vuka River. History. First information about Pačetin come from the 1275. At the place of present day village during the Middle Ages there were three villages with three churches. Louis I of Hungary permitted weekly trade fairs in Pačetin. In 1498 Pačetin gained town status and the medieval Vukovar County Assembly were held in it. After the Ottoman–Hungarian wars and Ottoman conquest of Hungary Pačetin population decreased . After the withdrawal of the Ottoman Empire after the Treaty of Karlowitz of 1666, Pačetin was settled by Serbs mainly from Mačva, eastern Bosnia and Montenegro, and at the beginning of the 18th century, there were over 40 Serbian houses. A century later there were twice as many houses and inhabitants, and at the peak in 1905 there were 1109 inhabitants in Pačetin, of which 1066 were Serbs. Education. The first records that prove the existence of the school in Pačetin were made on 18 July 1788 which stated that 38 children attended the classes, 19 in the first and  second grade, and 76 children at all. This report is today kept in the National Archives of Hungary. Between 1788 until the 1922 there is no records about the school in Pačetin. In 1957 the school was an independent six-year primary school, after that a branch of the elementary school in Nuštar, then branch of the "Braća Đurđević" Elementary School in Vukovar and since 1992 and establishment of SAO Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia until today it became branch school of the Bobota Elementary School. Branch school of Elementary school Bobota is located in Pačetin, 4,4 kilometers away  from mother school in Bobota. Education at local school is carried out in Serbian. The school building have two classrooms, a kitchen, bathroom and central heating on electrical energy. In 2010 local branch of Prosvjeta published monograph "220 godina školstva u Pačetinu" (). Population. According to the 1991 census, the village was inhabited by a majority of Serbs (88.48%), and minority of Yugoslavs (6.93%) and Croats (3.17%). Points of Interest. St. Nicholas's Church in Pačetin is a Serbian Orthodox church known for its iconostasis from 1910. Construction of St. Nicholas's Church in Pačetin started in 1752 and the work  was finished in three years, so that it was blessed in 1755. Associations and Institutions. "Cultural and Artistic Association Branko Radičević" is active in village since 1999. Local drama group, children drama group and reciting section are active as a part of Association. They are organizers of "MESDI-International Meetings of Drama Amateurs" and "Saint Sava Oration".