Bobota is a village in the Municipality of Trpinja in Vukovar-Syrmia County in eastern Croatia. Regional Bobota Canal, the first major water management project in modern-day Croatia in the post-Roman Empire period, was named after the village. According to 2011 Census Bobota had a population of 1,491 inhabitants. Bobota is centrally located within the municipality and is its largest settlement with total population just marginally ahead of Trpinja. The village is located south of the D2 road and part of the Osijek Airport plot, including a part of the runway is within its cadastral boundaries. The village is also located centrally in the triangle between the nearby cities of Osijek, Vukovar and Vinkovci.
Name
Villages of Trpinja, Bobota and Vera share the common legend about the origin of their names. According to the legend, the ancestors of today's inhabitants of villages, who settled at the time of the Great Serb Migrations under Arsenije III Čarnojević, were called Bobe. According to this legend, they fled from the Ottoman Empire conquests of Balkan as they wanted to preserve their religious freedom. This legendary religious commitment and orthodoxy was coined in the local phrase Bobe endured for the faith or originally in Serbian Bobe trpiše za veru. The family name of 'Bobe' was used as the basis for the name of Bobota, the word 'endured' the name of Trpinja was created and from the word of faith the name of Vera was created.
Geography
Bobota, just slightly ahead of Trpinja, is the largest settlement in the municipality. Bobota is surrounded by Pačetin to the south, Ćelije to the west, Vera to the north and Trpinja, Lipovača and Bršadin to the east. Fertile intensive agricultural land and lowland forests are the main characteristics of the landscape. The Bobota Canal passes just north of the village separating a small part of it from the rest of the village.
Agriculture is important source of economic revenue.
Education
Kindergarten Liliput
Local Liliput Kindergarten was formally registered on 29 March 1999. Its center is located in Bobota, with additional two branch kindergartens in Bršadin and Trpinja. Kindergarten is named after fictional island nation of Lilliput from the Gulliver's Travels written by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift. Since institution operate in villages where Serbs of Croatia constitute majority, it offers its program in Serbian language with additional mandatory learning of Croatian.
Primary school
Local public Primary School in Bobota provides education up to eighth grade. Institution offer classes in Serbian language and Serbian Cyrillic Alphabet. School also operate four branch schools in Pačetin, Vera, Klisa and Ludvinci. Those branch schools offer classes for pupils up to the fourth grade while higher grades student have to attend classes in Bobota. The school building in Bobota consists of two parts, one of which was built in 1928 and the other in 1975. During the school year 2006/2007 new sports hall was built. The school building has 8 classrooms, 7 specialized cabinets, two offices, library, staff room, toilets and central heating. Furniture and educational equipment do not meet all standards due to deterioration and the lack of teaching resources. School Library has in its possession approximately 5,000 items.
