Talk:Vukovar

Is there any connection with the Seriban вук or Croation vuk, the words for "wolf"? Interlingua ^{talk email} 13:41, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I didn't want to mess in, I'll leave that to somebody who knows how to do that, but "var" is actually spelled "vár" in hungarian, and it means castle, or stronghold (a fortified place of defence to be exact). "Város" (in hungarian meaning something with a castle) is town. 14:07, 9 March 2007 (CET)

Interlingua, the city is named after the river Vuka.

Is river Vuka named after the wolf (vuk), that's the other question. Kubura 14:12, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

I am pretty sure the connection to the Croatian word "vuk" (wolf) is a folk-etymology. In ancient times, the river Vuka was called Ulca. That's way before Slavic languages were even spoken there. There is a theory that the river names Ulca and Volga are related, but this is uncertain. Rivers are usually named after a word for "flow" or "water", certainly not "wolf". Sometimes after a fish, but never after the word for "wolf".

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.201.206.176 (talk) 6 September 2017 (UTC)

Is there any evidence that there was a folk etymology in the phonological development of the name of the river "Vuka"? I mean, what would "Ulca", if borrowed into Old Croatian, give in Modern Croatian regularly? — Preceding unsigned comment added by FlatAssembler (talk • contribs) 14:50, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

:I have no sources off the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure Ulcā > Vuka would indeed be regular, through Proto-Slavic *Vŭlka (whence *Vlka, and from it modern Vuka) as an intermediate. The name's similarity to vuk "wolf" (from pSl. *vĭlkŭ) is almost certainly a coincidence. 93.140.218.95 (talk) 12:37, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Vukovar's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "The Guardian":

• From Croatian Democratic Union: {{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/12/croatias-conservatives-take-lead-preliminary-election-results|title=Croatia's conservatives set for coalition talks after falling short of majority|work=The Guardian|date=12 September 2016}}
• From Goran Hadžić: {{cite web|title=Goran Hadžić, last Yugoslav war fugitive arrested, dies|url=https://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/jul/13/goran-hadzic-last-yugoslav-war-fugitive-arrested-dies|work=The Guardian|access-date=14 July 2016|date=13 July 2016}}

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 15:00, 4 March 2022 (UTC)