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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 modern village of Čenej emanated from the grouped farms (salaši) around the local road Bački Jarak - Zmajevo. There is a Serb Orthodox church from 1835 in the village. The Monument to the Novi Sad Partisan Detachment [ 2] is located slightly southeast of Čenej on the east side of Highway 100. The monument, consisting of three monoliths ...
The Serbian National Theatre was founded in 1861 during a conference of the Serbian National Theatre Society, composed of members of the Serbian Reading Room (Srpska čitaonica), held in Novi Sad.[1] It is one of the oldest professional theatres among the South Slavs, as the Croatian National Theatrewas established in 1860 and the Slovenian ...