Novi Sad (Municipality,Yugoslavia [Serbia])

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• History of Novi Sad
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• Yugoslavia
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• Austro-Hungarian Empire

History of Novi Sad

Novi Sad (Hungarian, Ujvidek; German, Neusatz) is a town and district in Vojvodina, on the left bank of the Danube. The town has got 178.896 inhabitants (1990 census).

• 1237: First mention of the settlement , as Petervar, part of Bacs County in the Kingdom of Hungary.
• 1526: Occupation and devastation by the Ottoman Empire.
• 1688: Liberation from the Ottoman rule.
• 1692 & 1739: Establishment of Serbian refugees.
• 1748: Free Royal City with the new name of Neoplanta granted by Queen Maria Theresia.
• 1848-1861: The city was part of the Serbian Vojvodina and Banat of Temesch.

The 1910 population census yielded 33.590 inhabitants, divided as follows:

• Census by mother language:
  • Hungarian: 13.343 (39,7%)
  • Serbian: 11.594 (34,5%)
  • German: 5.918 (17,6%)
  • Slovak: 1.453 (4,3%)
  • Ruthenian: 332 (1,0%)
  • Others: 950 (2,8%)
• Census by religion:
  • Roman Catholic: 13.383.(39,8%)
  • Greek Orthodox: 11.553 (34,4%)
  • Lutheran: 3.089 (9,2%)
  • Calvinist: 2.755 (8,2%)
  • Jewish: 2.318 (6,9%)
  • Others: 492 (1,5%)

From 1918/1920 (Declaration of Novi Sad /Treaty of Trianon) to 1941, the city was incorporated to Yugoslavia. In 1941, the area was occupied and annexed by Hungary. The Treaty of Paris reallocated it to Yugoslavia in 1947.

Istvan Molnar, 8 October 2000

Flag of Novi Sad (Ujvidek) in Austro-Hungarian Empire

by Istvan Molnar

Seven unequal blue and white vertical stripes.

Source: Szell, S. Varosaink neve, cimere es loboguja, 1941