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Novi Sad is the second largest city of Serbia. It began as a Stone Age settlement in present-day Petrovaradin. The Celts founded the first fortress at this location. During Roman rule, a larger fortress was built in the 1st century AD. It was devastated by the Huns in the 5th century and rebuilt by the Byzantines.
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 Pannonian Plain on the border of the Bačka and Syrmia geographical regions.
The NATO bombing left Novi Sad without any of its three Danube bridges, communications, water, and electricity, which severely impaired the day to day living of the residents of the city. Water services were restored only after two years, partially due to funding from Britain, one of the countries which bombed targets in the city in 1999. [3]
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 ...
Map of the urban area of Novi Sad with city quarters, showing the location of Grbavica. Grbavica, Braće Ribnikar Street. The northern border of Grbavica is Futoška ulica (Futoška Street), the western borders are Ulica Vojvode Knićanina (Vojvoda Knićanin Street) and Ulica Kola srpskih sestara (Kolo srpskih sestara Street), the southern ...
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 Liman. The northern border of Liman is Bulevar Cara Lazara (Tsar Lazar Boulevard), the western borders are Ulica Ribarsko ostrvo (Ribarsko ostrvo Street) and Ulica Sima Matavulja (Simo Matavulj Street), while the southern and eastern border is Danube river (i.e. Sunčani kej - "The Sunny Quay").
Banat, Bačka and Baranya ( Serbo-Croatian: Banat, Bačka i Baranja / Банат, Бачка и Барања) was a province of the Kingdom of Serbia and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes between November 1918 and 1922. It included the geographical regions of Banat, Bačka, and Baranya and its administrative center was Novi Sad.