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The Sombor City Museum (Serbian: Градски музеј Сомбор, Gradski muzej Sombor, Hungarian: Zombori Városi Múzeum) in Sombor, Vojvodina, Serbia, is the city institution focused on the research, preservation and presentation of historical objects and artifacts related to the west Bačka region.
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.
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 ...
The Konjović family came to Sombor from Patriarchate of Peć region at the time of the Great Serb Migration in the 1690s. Many members of the family were among cultural and intellectual elite of Sombor for centuries, including the prominent composer Petar Konjović. Milan Konjović's mother Vera was the daughter of the educator and writer ...
Sava Stojkov was born on 29 March 1925 in Sombor, Kingdom SHS (now Serbia), and began painting from an early age.His first individual exhibition took place in 1945. Since then he has exhibited individually at over 500 exhibitions in Serbia and the countries of former Yugoslavia, as well as in Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium ...
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 ...
of Sombor Although Čonoplja was a rather agricultural place, many priests, nuns, and teachers emerged. Many Donauschwaben farmers from Čonoplja owned a szállás (small farm outside the village).
Bački Monoštor (Serbian Cyrillic: Бачки Моноштор) is a village located in the municipality of Sombor, West Bačka District, Vojvodina, Serbia. As of 2011 census, it has a population of 3,485 inhabitant. The village has a Croat majority (that belong to the Croat subgroup of Šokac).