Other than Croatian and Pannonian Rusyn the village is known as Миклушевци in Serbian, Szentmiklós in Hungarian and Sankt Niklas in German.

It is assumed, but there are no preserved documents, that Mikluševci existed as an independent noble estate before Turkish rule.

After liberation from the Turks, Orthodox Vlachs settled in Mikluševci first, after 1700, and later refugees from Baranja, and in the middle of the 19th century, Ruthenians.

Following the capture of the village, a family of three was killed by the Croatian Serb forces in the nearby Jelaš Forest, and 92 were expelled.

Twelve were convicted to prison sentences ranging from four to fifteen years and two were acquitted.