Novi Sad

Novi Sad (Serbie Cyrillic: Нови Сад, ) is the caipitalOfficial page of government of Vojvodina , 12 November 2009 o the northren Serbian province o Vojvodina, an the admeenistrative centre o the Sooth Bačka Destrict. The ceety is locatit in the soothrern pairt o Pannonian Plain on the Danube river.

Novi Sad is the seicont lairgest ceety in Serbie, efter Belgrade. , the ceety haes a population o 250,439, while the urban aurie o Novi Sad (wi the adjacent urban settlements o Petrovaradin an Sremska Kamenica) haes 277,522 indwallers. The population o the admeenistrative aurie o the ceety staunds at 341,625 fowk. It is locatit on the border o the Bačka an Srem regions, on the banks o the Danube river an Danube-Tisa-Danube Canal, facin the northren slopes o Fruška Gora moontain.

The ceety wis foondit in 1694, when Serb merchants formed a colony athort the Danube frae the Petrovaradin fortress, a Habsburg strategic military post. In the 18t an 19t centuries, it became an important merchant an manufacturin centre, as well as a centre o Serbie cultur o that period, earnin the nickname Serbie Athens. The ceety wis hivily devastatit in the 1848 Revolution, but it wis subsequently restored. During the ceety's lang history, it haes maintained its multi-cultural identity, wi Serbs, Hungarians an Germans bein the main ethnic groups. The day, Novi Sad is an industrial an financial centre o the Serbian economy, as well as a major cultural hub.

Sister ceeties

Novi Sad haes relationships wi several twin touns. Ane o the main streets in its ceety centre is named efter Modena in Italy; an likwise Modena haes named a pairk in its toun centre Parco di Piazza d'Armi Novi Sad. The Novi Sad Friendship Brig in Norwich, Unitit Kinrick, bi Buro Happold, wis an aa named in honour o Novi Sad. Besides twin ceeties, Novi Sad haes mony signed greements on joint cooperation wi mony European ceeties (see an aa: Twin ceeties o Novi Sad). Novi Sad's twin touns are:

  Banja Luka, Bosnie an Herzegovinae
  Budva,  Montenegro
  Dortmund, Germany
  Ilioupoli, Greece
  Modena, Italy
  Irkutsk, Roushie
  Nizhny Novgorod, Roushie
  Norwich, Unitit Kinrick
  Changchun, Cheenae
  Pécs, Hungary
  Timişoara, Romanie

References

Category:Populatit places established in 1694
Category:Novi Sad
Category:Populatit places in Vojvodina
Category:Places in Bačka
Category:Populatit places on the Danube
Category:Port ceeties in Serbie
Category:Varsity touns
Category:Sooth Bačka Destrict