Trpinja

Trpinja (Serbian Cyrillic: Трпиња) is a village and municipality in the Vukovar-Srijem County in eastern Croatia.

Languages and names

In Serbian Cyrillic village is known as Трпиња, and in Hungarian as Terpenye.

Villages Trpinja, Bobota and Vera share common legend about origin of their names. According to legend ancestors of today's inhabitants of villages who settled in Great Serb Migrations under Arsenije III Čarnojević were called Bobe. They were fleeing from Ottoman Empire conquest to preserve their faith. Therefore, was formed local phrase which says Bobe suffer for faith or in Serbian Bobe trpiše za veru. From word Bobe was created name Bobota, from word suffer (Serbian:trpiti) was created name Trpinja and from word faith (Serbian:vera) was created name of village Vera.

Another story tells that name Trpinja originated from landowner Trpimir who owned land in the vicinity.

Serbian language

Serbian Language and Serbian Cyrillic alphabet is official language in the municipality of Trpinja in all settlement except Ćelije along with the Croatian language. The statute guarantees that Serbian Cyrillic alphabet will be used in text of seals and stamps, on plates of representative, executive and administrative bodies of municipality, as well as on those of legal persons with public authorities. Pre-school education for Serbian community that is under local jurisdiction is organized and conducted in the Serbian language and Cyrillic alphabet according to local statute.