History
The area of Vukovar was inhabited since the Neolithic times. It is an exceptionally abundant archaeological locality, listed among the most important sites of southern Europe. Vukovar was characteristic for its architecture from the 18th century with covered porticos (arcades) and later historicist buildings, until the war in 1991 which resulted in a systematic destruction of the entire town.
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