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The settlement from which Stari grad (and Novi Sad) developed was founded in 1694. This settlement was known as Racka varoš or Petrovaradinski Šanac and was part of the Danube military frontier. The original area of Petrovaradin Šanac was in the northwest part of today's Stari grad and the southwest part of today's Podbara.
For much of the 18th and 19th centuries, Novi Sad was the largest city populated with ethnic Serbs in the World (The reformer of the Serbian language, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, wrote in 1817 that Novi Sad is the "largest Serb municipality in the world". In 1820 Novi Sad had 20,000 inhabitants, of whom about 2/3 were Serbs.
Petrovaradin Fortress (Serbian: Петроварадинска тврђава, Petrovaradinska tvrđava, pronounced [pɛtrɔʋarǎdiːnskaː tʋř̩dʑaʋa]; Hungarian: Péterváradi vár), nicknamed "Gibraltar on/of the Danube", [1] [2] [3] is a fortress in the town of Petrovaradin, itself part of the City of Novi Sad, Serbia. It is located on ...
Fortress Belgrade Fortress: Belgrade: Stari Grad: Belgrade: 3rd century (rebuilt 535) Under restoration Bastion fort city: Bolvan Fortress: Bovan: Aleksinac: Nišava District: 14th century Ruins Fortress Borač Fortress: Borač: Knić: Šumadija District: 14th century Ruins Fortified town: Brukšanac: Novi Sad: Novi Sad: South Bačka District ...
The City Museum of Novi Sad (Serbian: Музеј града Новог Сада, Muzej grada Novog Sada; Hungarian: Újvidéki Városi Múzeum; Slovak: Múzeum mesta Nový Sad; Rusyn: Музей града Новог Сада) founded in 1954, is a complex city museum focusing on Novi Sad's, capital of the province of Vojvodina in Serbia, development from its origins to the modern era. [1]
Novi Sad, Stari Grad (Old Town) panoramic view, 2022. The city lies on the meander of the river Danube, which is only 350 meters wide beneath the marking stones of Petrovaradin. [27] A section of the Danube-Tisza-Danube Canal marks the northern edge of the wider city centre.
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Between 1980 and 1989, Petrovaradin was a municipality within the city of Novi Sad. From 1989 to 2002, Novi Sad's municipalities were abolished and territory of the former Petrovaradin municipality was part of Novi Sad municipality, which included the whole territory of the present-day City of Novi Sad. The city municipalities of Novi Sad were ...