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'''Vučedol''' ({{lit|Wolf's Valley}}) in [[Croatia]], is an archeological site, an elevated ground on the right bank of the River [[Danube]], which also forms the border with [[Serbia]]. Vučedol became the eponym of the [[eneolithic]] [[Vučedol culture]].
It is estimated that the site had once been home to about 3,000 inhabitants, making it one of the largest and most important European centers of its time.<ref>Bogdan Brukner, "Balkan i srednja Evropa u praistoriji - sličnosti i razlike u razvoju", ''Novi Sad'', 1992, page 26.{{ISBN missing|date=June 2022}}</ref>
Artifacts from the Vučedol site are located in the [[Archaeological Museum in Zagreb]], and the City museum of Vukovar. The site itself hosts the [[Vučedol Culture Museum]] since 2015.
Due to extremely favourable strategic position, Vučedol has always been open to colonization. Some of the most important archaeological discoveries belonging to the Vučedol culture have been made at this site.
Archaeological research has confirmed finds of [[Baden culture]], Vučedol culture as well as [[Kostolac culture]] on the site of Vučedol.<ref>{{cite journal | url = https://hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/26644 | title = The Kostolac horizon at Vučedol | first = Jacqueline | last = Balen | pages = 25–40 | journal = Opvscvla archaeologica | volume = 29 | number = 1 | year = 2005 | issn = 0473-0992 | publisher = Department of Archaeology, [[Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb]] | access-date = 2022-06-15}}</ref>
The site is located roughly {{convert|5|km|mi}} downstream from the city of Vukovar. During the [[Battle of Vukovar]] in 1991, the Vučedol site was destroyed by being used as a firing base for the Serbian [[Yugoslav People's Army]] artillery and tanks in the three-month bombardment of Vukovar.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kaiser|first=Timothy|editor1-last=Kohl|editor1-first=Philip L|editor2-last=Fawcett|editor2-first=Clare P|title=Nationalism, politics, and the practice of archaeology|url=https://archive.org/details/nationalismpolit00kohl|url-access=limited|chapter=Archaeology and ideology in southeast Europe|page=[https://archive.org/details/nationalismpolit00kohl/page/n129 118]|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1995|isbn=978-0-521-55839-6}}</ref> The site was since restored and the [[Vučedol Culture Museum]] established on the grounds.
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