Editing Valpovo (section)

==History==
[[File:Kulturni centar-Valpovo.JPG|thumb|right|Valpovo Culture Center]]
The town is first mentioned in 1332.<ref name="HE"/>  In June of 1543, during Sultan Suleiman's campaign into Hungary, [[Siege of Valpovo|Valpovo was besieged]], taken, and annexed to the [[Ottoman Empire]]. It was initially a kaza centre in the [[Sanjak of Pojega]] until 1601. It was later in sanjak centre in [[Kanije Eyalet]] until [[Austria]]n conquest in 1687.

In the late 19th and early 20th century, Valpovo was part of the [[Virovitica County]] of the [[Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia]]. In March 1945, German forces launched [[Operation Spring Awakening]].  On the southern arm which moved north through Valpovo was the [[1st Cossack Cavalry Division]]. The operation was as disastrous as it was ambitious. Yugoslav partisans of the [[3rd Army (Yugoslav Partisans)]] continuously harassed and delayed the Cossacks. Shortly after the end of [[World War II]], officials in the communist Yugoslav regime established a [[Valpovo work camp|labor camp]] for [[Germans of Croatia|Germans]] which operated until May 1946.<ref name="HE"/>