Croatia Serbia
Also known as: Bezdan
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Batina is a border crossing over the Danube between Croatia (Baranja) and Serbia, on the Beli Manastir–Sombor route. The crossing is on Croatian state road D212 and continues on the Serbian side as road IB-16, over a bridge into the village of Bezdan — the Serbian side of the crossing. It operates 24 hours a day and takes both passenger cars and freight vehicles, making it one of the quieter alternatives to the busier crossings further south. Batina sits near the site of the Battle of Batina, a major WWII crossing point of the Danube, and today serves mostly local and regional traffic between the Baranja region of Croatia and the Bačka region of Serbia. Because it takes freight as well as passenger vehicles, it has also served as a fallback route for trucks when nearby Erdut (Bogojevo) has been restricted — a weight limit on vehicles over 7.5 tonnes has applied there since March 2025 because of the poor condition of that crossing's bridge over the Danube. Above the village stands the well-known Victory Monument (by sculptor Antun Augustinčić), built to commemorate the 1944 battle, visible to drivers crossing the bridge and today a protected cultural monument.
