{{For|the German operatic bass|Hans Sotin}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Sotin | settlement_type = | image_skyline = Sotin ulaz 221208.jpg | pushpin_map = Croatia Vukovar-Srijem County#Croatia#Europe | pushpin_map_caption = Location of Sotin in Croatia | coordinates = {{coord| 45.295| 19.097|region:HR_type:city|display=inline,title}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{flag|Croatia}} | subdivision_type1 = County | subdivision_name1 = Vukovar-Syrmia County | subdivision_type2 = | subdivision_name2 = | area_footnotes = <ref>{{Cite Q|Q119585703|mode=cs1}}</ref> | area_total_km2 = 23.0 | population_footnotes = <ref name="Census 2021">{{Croatian Census 2021|S}}</ref> | population_as_of = 2021 | population_total = 597 | population_density_km2 = auto | population_urban = | population_density_urban_km2 = | population_demonym = Sotinjanin (♂) Sotinjanka (♀)<br /> <small>(per grammatical gender)</small> }} thumbnail|Sotin map

'''Sotin''' is a village in eastern Croatia, located a few kilometers southeast of Vukovar by the Danube. It is administratively part of the city of Vukovar, and its population is 597 (census 2021).<ref>{{Croatian Census 2011|S|16|5185}}</ref> The post code for Sotin is 32232 Sotin.

==History== One Scordisci archaeological site dating back to late La Tène culture was excavated in the 1970s and 1980s as a part of rescue excavations in eastern Croatia.<ref name="La Tène">{{cite journal |last1=Dizdar |first1=Marko |date=2016 |title=Late La Tène Settlements in the Vinkovci Region (Eastern Slavonia, Croatia): Centres of Trade and Exchange. |url=https://www.austriaca.at/0xc1aa5576%200x003437f9.pdf |journal= Boii - Taurisci: Proceedings of the International Seminar, Oberleis-Klement, June 14th-15th, 2012 |pages=31–48 |publisher=Austrian Academy of Sciences Press |access-date=22 January 2019 }}</ref>

Sotin (German Sotting, Hungarian Szottin) was first mentioned in 1289 as a fortress of the Vukovar jobagions. In Sotin, there is an archaeological site with a settlement of the Pannonian Kornakata tribe. Archaeological finds speak of life in the Sotin area from the Copper Age to the Younger Iron Age and the Celtic Skordisks. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Sotin |url=https://www.enciklopedija.hr/clanak/sotin |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=www.enciklopedija.hr}}</ref>

Following Ottoman retreat from the region, the Lordship of Vukovar was established, and the village became part of its domain.<ref name="Mažuran">{{cite book |last=Mažuran |first=Ive |author-link=Ive Mažuran |pages=169-253 |chapter=Vlastelinstvo Vukovar |editor=Vladimir Stipetić |date=1993 |title=Stanovništvo i vlastelinstva u Slavoniji 1736. godine i njihova ekonomska podloga |trans-title= |language=Croatian |location=Osijek, Croatia |publisher=Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts: Institute for Scientific Work Osijek |isbn=953-154-000-4}}</ref>

===Croatian War of Independence=== During the Croatian War of Independence, 32 residents of Sotin were killed and another 32 are missing {{as of|2013|lc=yes}}. A mass grave containing three bodies was discovered near the village through information obtained by Serbian authorities conducting a criminal inquest of war crimes&mdash;killing of 16 Croatian civilians in Sotin&mdash;committed by the Croatian Serb militia and Territorial Defense Forces in late 1991.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=tportal.hr|url=http://www.tportal.hr/vijesti/crnakronika/256463/Nadena-nova-masovna-grobnica-s-civilima.html|date=19 April 2013|language=hr|title=U masovnoj grobnici kod Sotina pronađena tri tijela|trans-title=Three bodies found in a mass grave near Sotin}}</ref> In April 2013, the second mass grave was found in the village. It contained ten bodies transferred from the mass grave containing the three other bodies to a village slaughterhouse pit where animal bones were disposed of at the time. The move was made in 1997 in order to hide the bodies better. All thirteen, whose remains were found in the two graves, were killed on 26 December 1991.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Večernji list|url=http://www.vecernji.hr/regije/zavrseni-radovi-dvije-masovne-grobnice-sotinu-clanak-543799|date=24 April 2013|language=hr|title=Završeni radovi na dvije masovne grobnice u Sotinu|trans-title=Survey of two mass graves in Sotin completed|author=Branimir Bradarić}}</ref> Two other mass graves were found previously, one at the Catholic graveyard in the village and the other in nearby vineyards.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Glas Slavonije|url=http://www.glas-slavonije.hr/196285/1/Grobnica-zrtava-iz-Sotina-premjestana-1997-zbog-pokusaja-skrivanja-tragova|language=hr|title=Grobnica žrtava iz Sotina premještana 1997. zbog pokušaja skrivanja tragova|trans-title=Mass Grave of Sotin Victims Moved in 1997 in an Attempt to Hide Evidence|date=20 April 2013|author=Sanja Butigan}}</ref>

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{{Commons category|Sotin}} {{Villages of Vukovar-Syrmia County}} {{Vukovar}} {{Authority control}}

Category:Populated places in Vukovar-Srijem County Category:Populated places on the Danube Category:Populated places in Syrmia Category:Archaeological sites in Croatia Category:La Tène culture

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