The Royal City of Novi Sad

 Petrovaradin Fortress

Novi Sad is a city situated in Vojvodina Province, Serbia. It is the administrative center of the province. Novi Sad placed on the second largest city in the country after Beograd.

Since it was founded in 1694, Novi Sad became the center of Serbian culture and earned its nickname "Serbian Athens". At present, Novi Sad is one of large industrial and financial centers of the Serbian economy, and is also a notable construction site in the region.

Ratzen Stadt (1745)

At the outset of Hasburg rule near the end of the 17th century, people of Orthodox faith were forbidden from residing in Petrovaradin, thus Serbs were largely unable to build homes there. Because of this event, a new settlement was founded in 1694 on the left bank of the River Danube. The initial name of this settlement was Serb City (Ratzen Stadt). Another name used for the settlement was Petrovaradinski Sanac. In 1718, the inhabitants of the village of Almas were resettled to Petrovaradinski Sanac, where they found Almaski Kraj (the Almas quarter).

According to 1720 data the population of Ratzen Stadt was composed of 112 Serbian, 14 German, and 5 Hungarian houses. The settlement officially gained the present name Novi Sad in 1748 when it became a "free royal city". The edict that made Novi Sad a free royal city was proclaimed on 1 February 1748 as Maria Theresa (Queen of Hungary, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Rama, Galicia, Lodomeria, Carinthia) gave the city rights.

Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj Grammar School (est. 1810)

Today Novi Sad is the economic center of Vojvodina Province. It is also one of the largest economic and cultural centers in Serbia and the former Yugoslavia.

Profile

Name: 

City of Novi Sad
Country: 

Serbia
Province: 

Vojvodina
District: 

South Backa
Area: 

699 kilometers-square
Time zone: 

CET (UTC+1)
Coordinates: 

45 15 N, 19 51 E
Website: 

www.novisad.rs

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Political Parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina

A. Multi-ethnic parties

Greens of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnian Party
Citizens' Democratic Party
Liberal Democratic Party
Pensioners' Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Workers' Communist Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Democratic youth movement
 Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Our Party

B.Bosniaks

Bosnian-Herzegovinian Patriotic Party-Sefer Halilović
Party of Democratic Action
Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina
Democratic People's Community

C.Serbs

Democratic Party of the Republika Srpska
Party of Democratic Progress
Democratic People's Alliance
Alliance of Independent Social Democrats
Pensioners' Party of the Republika Srpska
Serbian Democratic Party
Serbian People's Alliance of the Republika Srpska
Serbian Radical Party of the Republika Srpska
Socialist Party of the Republika Srpska
League of People's Rebirth

D.Croats

Christian Democrats
Croatian Christian Democratic Union
Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Croatian Democratic Union 1990
Croatian Party of Rights
Croatian Peasant Party
Croatian Right Bloc
New Croatian Initiative
People's Party Work for Betterment

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