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Since 1945, Novi Sad has been the capital of Vojvodina, a province of the Socialist Republic of Serbia and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The city went through rapid industrialization and its population more than doubled in the period between World War II and the breakup of Yugoslavia.
Novi Sad was founded in 1694, when Serb merchants formed a colony across the Danube from the Petrovaradin Fortress, a strategic Habsburg military post. In subsequent centuries, it became an important trading, manufacturing and cultural centre, and has historically been dubbed the Serbian Athens.
Jun 2, 2024 · Novi Sad, city and administrative capital of the ethnically mixed autonomous region of Vojvodina in northern Serbia. It is a transit port on the heavily trafficked Danube River northwest of Belgrade and is also situated on the Belgrade-Budapest rail line.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The last offensive military role the fortress was to play was during the Hungarian Revolution in 1849, when Austrian troops tried to force the Fortress to surrender after a blockade. The answer came in the form of the shelling of Novi Sad on June 12, when two-thirds of the city was destroyed.
In early 19th century, Serbian educator and a language reformer Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic said that Novi Sad was the largest Serbian opscestvo (municipality) worldwide. During the 1848-49 Revolution, the town as bombarded and devastated.
Back in 1817, Vuk Karadzic, reformer of the Serbian language spoke of Novi Sad as the largest center of Serbian society in the world. At this time, Novi Sad was the center of political, cultural and social life of the entire Serbian nation.
Nicknamed ‘Gibraltar on the Danube’, Petrovaradin Fortress is a 17th century fortified structure in Novi Sad, Serbia. There has been a fortress on the site by the River Danube since the Bronze Age; the first fortifications on the site of Petrovaradin Fortress were built by the Romans and expanded by Cisterian monks in the 13th century.
