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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.
It is the primary archival institution for the municipalities of Sombor, Apatin, Kula, Odžaci and Bač. [2] The archive was established as the regional archival centre in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in 1948 and today it houses 558 fonds and collections. [3] It gained independent institution status in 1951 by the decision of the City ...
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.
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 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.
In early September 1914, several years before the end of the Austria-Hungary, in a town in the West Vojvodina Bačka region known as Zombor or Sombor of some 30,000 people, including 12,000 Serb-speakers, popular demonstrations demanded the removal of all shop signs in the Cyrillic alphabet. When an angry mob chased one Serb-speaking shopkeeper ...
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. ...