| Official Name: | Dalj |
| Native Name: | [1] |
| Settlement Type: | Village (Selo) |
| Pushpin Map: | Croatia Osijek-Baranja County#Croatia#Europe |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Dalj in Osijek-Baranja County |
| Pushpin Label: | Dalj |
| Coordinates: | 45.4833°N 77°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  Croatia |
| Subdivision Type1: | County |
| Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name2: | Erdut |
| Governing Body: | Local Committee |
| Area Footnotes: | [2] |
| Area Total Km2: | 73.7 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Total: | 2877 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population Demonym: | Daljac (♂) Daljanka (♀) (per grammatical gender) |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 31226 |
| Area Code: | +385 31 |
| Registration Plate: | OS |
| Blank Name Sec1: | Official languages |
| Blank Info Sec1: | Croatian, Serbian[3] |
Dalj (Serbian: Даљ, Hungarian: Dálya, German: Dallia, Latin: Teutoburgium[4]) is a village on the Danube in eastern Croatia, near the confluence of the Drava and Danube, on the border with Serbia. It is located on the D519 road, south of its intersection with the D213 road and the Vukovar–Erdut railway.
Administratively, it is a part of the municipality of Erdut, Osijek-Baranja County. Although the namesake of the municipality is the Erdut village, Dalj is the largest settlement of the municipality and its administrative, cultural and economic center.[5]
One Scordisci archaeological site in Dalj dating back to late La Tène culture was excavated in the 1970s and 1980s as a part of rescue excavations in eastern Croatia.[6] The archaeological site was a part of the settlement network of Scordisci in the area of Vinkovci.[6]
During the Croatian War of Independence, the village became the site of the Dalj massacre - killing of 39 prisoners of war in August 1991. The prisoners were Croatian policemen, Croatian National Guard troops and Civil defencemen and killed after the Yugoslav People's Army and Serbian paramilitaries captured Dalj on 1 August. Goran Hadžić, Croatian Serb political leader at the time, was charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in relation to these atrocities.[7]
The ICTY also charged Hadžić with illegal detention of hundreds of civilians in Dalj police station and a hangar near village's railway station.[8] The detainees were beaten and otherwise physically abused.[9] After Hadžić was diagnosed with a terminal illness, his trial was discontinued in 2015. He died in July 2016.[10]
According to the 2011 census[11] the Erdut municipality (part of which is Dalj) has a population of 7,308. The municipal population consists of Serbs (55.56%), Croats (37.96%) and Hungarians (5.06%).
See main article: article and Dalj High School. Dalj High School is public high school in Dalj. School offers students the following educational programs: Economist, Commercial Officer (in Serbian), Agricultural Technician and Agricultural Technician General.