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Serbian author Milan Savic in his book "History of the Bulgarian people until the end of its state" issued in Novi Sad wrote, that at his time (1878) Nis and environs were Bulgarian populated. [45] The urban population of Niš consisted of 17,107 Christian and 4,291 Muslim males, with total number of 3,500 Serbian houses and 2,000 Muslim houses.
Niš was known as Нишь [10] or Ньшь [11] (Nyšь) in Old Serbian and Old Bulgarian. Nāissus is the Ancient name of the city. [12] Naissus is itself probably a derivative of the older *Nāviskos, from *Nāvia ("trough valley"), the Celtic name of the Nišava River, which flows through the city.
Naftna industrija Srbije (NIS), in its present form, was established in 1991 as a public company for the exploration, production, refining and sales and distribution of oil, petroleum products and natural gas.
Turkish fortress in Niš, finished in 1723. In 1689 (during Great Turkish War) and in 1737 Niš was captured for a brief period of time by Austrian monarchy.The Ottoman-Habsburg wars and their aftermath resulted in the city of Niš and the wider area losing a sizable part of its population, due to them having fled or death. [3]
However most of its area (east of the line Nis-Pristina) lies outside the Serbian-speakers region. Old Serbia ( Serbian : Стара Србија , romanized : Stara Srbija ) is a Serbian historiographical term [ 1 ] that is used to describe the territory that according to the dominant school of Serbian historiography in the late 19th century ...
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Nikola Pašić. In autumn 1914 Essad Pasha decided to accept the invitation of the Senate of Central Albania to return and lead them. [7] First he travelled to Niš, Kingdom of Serbia, where he and Serbian prime minister Nikola Pašić signed the secret treaty of Serbian-Albanian alliance on 17 September 1914. [8]
The Niš Eyalet was created in 1846 from the dismemberment of the ancient Eyalet of Rumeli, once the largest and most important province of the Ottoman Empire.. In 1861, Midhat Pasha was put in charge of the Niš Eyalet.