Erdut is a village in eastern Croatia, located some 37 km east of the major city of Osijek, lying on the border with neighbouring Serbia.It is famous for its hilly vineyards above the Danube river.The name Erdut comes from the local Hungarian name (Erdőd) meaning "forest road". In other languages, the village in German is known as Erdung and in Serbian as Ердут.
Due to the local minority population, the Erdut municipality prescribe the use of not only Croatian as the official language, but the Serbian language and Serbian Cyrillic alphabet as well.
