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Novi Sad. / 45.25417°N 19.84250°E / 45.25417; 19.84250. Novi Sad ( Serbian Cyrillic: Нови Сад, pronounced [nôʋiː sâːd] ⓘ; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia after the capital Belgrade and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the ...
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.
The demographics of Novi Sad, a city in Serbia, have a long history. The population had increased from 6,890 in 1798 to 17,332 in 1843, before declining to 7,182 in 1850. [why?][citation needed] The population then reached 33,590 inhabitants by 1910, and 277,522 inhabitants by 2011 (the latest census). The population of Hungarian speakers ...
Political history. Urban municipalities of Novi Sad, 1980-1989. The city was founded in 1694 and its first names were Ratzen Stadt ( Serbian: Racka Varoš) and Peterwardein Schantz ( Serbian: Petrovaradinski Šanac ). Since 1702, it was part of the Habsburg Military Frontier. In 1746–1748, when one part of Military Frontier was abolished ...
Location Borders Map of the urban area of Novi Sad with city quarters, showing the location of Stari grad. The eastern borders of Stari grad are Kej žrtava racije (Quay of the victims of raid) and Beogradski kej (Belgrade Quay), the southern border is Bulevar Cara Lazara (Tzar Lazar Boulevard), the western border is Bulevar oslobođenja (Liberation Boulevard), the north-western borders are ...
Kovilj (Serbian Cyrillic: Ковиљ) is a suburban settlement of the city of Novi Sad, Serbia. Name [ edit ] The Serbian name of the village derived from Serbian word "kovilj", which is a name for one sort of flower grass.
The Cathedral Church of the Holy Great-Martyr George ( Serbian: Саборни храм Светог великомученика Георгија, Saborni hram Svetog velikomučenika Georgija) is the seat of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Bačka, located in Novi Sad, northern Serbia. The present-day church was completed in 1905, on the ruins ...
Jovan Rajić (1726–1801), writer and historian; born in Sremski Karlovci and lived in Novi Sad. Kosta Trifković (1843–1875), Serb writer, one of the best comediographers of the time; born in Novi Sad. Lajos Zilahy (1891−1974), author of the novel Two Prisoners. Laza Kostić (1841–1910), Serb man of letters; born in the village of ...