page_title: Petrovaradin
section_title: Politics
hierarchical_section_title: Petrovaradin / Politics
caption_attribution_description: English: Petrovaradin Fortress Deutsch: Festung Peterwardein Magyar: Péterváradi vár Српски / srpski: Petrovaradinska tvrđava Русский: Петровардинская крепость This is a photo of Cultural Heritage site of Serbia number ПКИЦ 41 Object location45°&#160;15′&#160;10.54″&#160;N, 19°&#160;51′&#160;48.19″&#160;E&#160;View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth
context_page_description: Petrovaradin is one of two city municipalities which constitute the city of Novi Sad. As of 2011, the urban area has 27,083 inhabitants, while the municipality has 33,865 people inhabitants. Lying across the river Danube from the main part of Novi Sad, it is built around the Petrovaradin Fortress, historical anchor of the modern city.
context_section_description: The town of Petrovaradin is the seat of Petrovaradin Municipality. Since 2002, when the new statute of the City of Novi Sad came into effect, it has been divided into two city municipalities, Petrovaradin and Novi Sad. Between 1980 and 1989, Petrovaradin also had municipality status within Novi Sad. From 1989 to 2002, Novi Sad's municipalities were abolished and territory of the former Petrovaradin municipality was part of Novi Sad municipality, which included the whole territory of the present-day City of Novi Sad.
  The city municipalities of Novi Sad were formally established in 2002, for the sole reason that Novi Sad could get a city status. In 2007, after the update of the law of local government, the requirement for multiple municipalities for city status was lifted (and 20 additional cities were proclaimed). However, the renewed 2008 city statute also foresaw formation of two separate municipalities, but as of 2009 none of them de facto exist, and the whole city is run solely by the city administration. Petrovaradin municipality does not yet have its own offices, and the town is administered only by local community office.
caption: Petrovaradin Fortress over the Danube
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