Editing Valpovo (section)

==Name==
In [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]] the town is known as ''Valpó''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kocsis |first1=Károly |last2=Kocsis-Hodosi |first2=Eszter |title=Ethic Geography of the Hungarian Minorities in the Capathian Basin |date=1998 |publisher=Geographical Research Institute Research Centre For Earth Sciences Hungarian Academy of Sciences |location=Budapest, Hungary |isbn=9637395849 |page=238 |url=https://hungarian-geography.hu/konyvtar/kiadv/Ethnic_geography.pdf}}</ref> and in [[German language|German]] as ''Walpach''.<ref name="HE">{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.enciklopedija.hr/clanak/valpovo|title=Valpovo|encyclopedia=[[Croatian Encyclopedia]]|publisher=[[Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography]]|language=hr|access-date=23 June 2017}}</ref> In antiquity, it was called Iovalum. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://valpovo.hr/povijest-grada-valpova/|title=Povijest grada Valpova}}</ref> There are several suggested etymologies. One is that it comes from the Latin root *Iov-, meaning "divine". However, the ending can't be explained by Latin. One explanation is that it comes from the Indo-European words *yow and *h2elut, so that it means "magical beer." The other, more likely, is that it comes from the Indo-European roots *yow and *h2elom, so that it means "magical herb", whatever plant that signified. Perhaps the simplest explanation is that it comes from the Indo-European word *wel, meaning "valley", whatever "Io-" meant.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://linguistforum.com/outside-of-the-box/croatian-toponyms/|title = Croatian toponyms - Linguist Forum}}</ref>{{unreliable source|date=August 2017}}