Srijemske Laze (Serbian Cyrillic: Сремске Лазе) is a village in Stari Jankovci municipality of Vukovar-Syrmia County in eastern Croatia.

Surrounding landscape of the village is marked by the Pannonian Basin plains and agricultural fields of wheat, maize, common sunflower and sugar beet.

This however changed in local context after the Croatian War of Independence when Ekavian was associated with Serb and Ijekavian with Croat community with some exceptions.

The area of village is completely flat, gently sloped from slightly higher north to lower south.

[6] Origin of old village name comes from Croat word laz, which means the low gentle hill that man can easily exceed walking.

[6] In 1719 locals built a wooden church of All saint Arhistratiz's, which on 18 June 1752 was consecrated by episkopos Partenije.

During World War II village was part of Nazi puppet Independent State of Croatia and Vuka county within it.

[1] During the war in Croatia Srijemske Laze was within self-proclaimed Serb political entity SAO Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia.

In the final stages of conflict United Nations Mission conducted peaceful reintegration of this region into Croatian jurisdiction.

The process was initiated by industrialization and urbanization already in the period of the existence of the SFR Yugoslavia and intensified by the post-Croatian War of Independence socioeconomic situation.

Population decline further intensified in the aftermath of the 2013 enlargement of the European Union with emigration to Germany, Ireland, Scandinavia and other parts of the EU.