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Sombor is the hometown of 3x NBA MVP, NBA Champion and Finals MVP Nikola Jokić. The local basketball club where he began his playing career renamed itself KK Joker in 2017 after his English-language nickname, and was promoted to the top-level Basketball League of Serbia at the end of the 2022–23 season.
The Historical Archive of Sombor (Serbian Cyrillic: Историјски архив Сомбор, Hungarian: Sombori Történeti Levéltár) is the primary institution responsible for preservation of archival materials in the West Bačka District and westernmost parts of South Bačka District located in Sombor, Vojvodina, Serbia.
The Orthodox Church in Sombor, dedicated to Saint Great Martyr George, was erected on the site of an older church that was renovated during the Ottoman rule in 1717 and was known as the Small St. George's Church. [2] After gaining the status of a free and royal city, the people of Sombor desired to have a church worthy of their new privileges.
The museum was founded in 1887 when the society received its first exhibition space and today it focuses on local history in the municipalities of Sombor, Apatin, Odžaci, Kula and Bač. [1] It is a complex museum with around 40,000 exhibits divided into five categories: archaeological, numismatic, historical, ethnological, and art collections.
By the mid-18th century, Sombor hosted occasional county assemblies but did not yet house a permanent administrative centre. [3] Despite initial resistance, including opposition to Sombor becoming a free royal city in 1749, Sombor emerged as the county seat when Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor designated it as the permanent administrative centre ...
In the 1850s, the area was mostly part of the Sombor District, with some parts in the Novi Sad District. After 1860, the area was again included into Batsch-Bodrog County . During the royal Serb-Croat-Slovene ( Yugoslav ) administration (1918–1941), the area was part of the Novi Sad County (1918–1922), Bačka Oblast (1922–1929), and ...
Pages in category "Sombor" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Svetozar Miletić (Serbian Cyrillic: Светозар Милетић, Hungarian: Nemesmilitics, Croatian: Lemeš / Svetozar Miletić, German: Milititsch) is a village located in Sombor municipality in the West Bačka District of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated in Bačka geographical region.