Grabovo, Croatia

Grabovo is a settlement south of Vukovar, Croatia. The location was established as a pustara, a Pannonian type of hamlet.^[3] It consists of two hamlets, Ovčara and Jakobovac, in the north, which are administratively part of the city of Vukovar, and have a total population of 47,^[4][5] and an uninhabited section in the south which is administratively under the municipality of Tompojevci.^[6][7]

Grabovo
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Coordinates: 45°16′34″N 19°3′36″E
Area [1]
• Total	6.0 km2 (2.3 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]
• Total	0
• Density	0.0/km2 (0.0/sq mi)

Before the Croatian War of Independence, Grabovo had 192 inhabitants. In 1991, 154 inhabitants were expelled from Grabovo, and to this day no one has returned to Grabovo.^[8]

Ovčara is best known for the Ovčara camp and the Ovčara massacre of 1991.

Ovčara and Jakobovac each used to be registered as a standalone settlement, but were joined under the name Grabovo in 1991, and subsequently administratively split in 2001.^[9]