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Novi Sad, Stari Grad (Old Town) panoramic view, 2022. The city lies on the meander of the river Danube, which is only 350 meters wide beneath the marking stones of Petrovaradin. [30] A section of the Danube-Tisza-Danube Canal marks the northern edge of the wider city centre.
The settlement officially gained the present name Novi Sad (Neoplanta in Latin) in 1748 when it became a "free royal city". In 1780, Novi Sad had about 2,000 houses, of which 1,144 were Serbian. For much of the 18th and 19th centuries, Novi Sad was the largest city populated with ethnic Serbs in the world.
The settlement from which Stari grad (and Novi Sad) developed was founded in 1694. This settlement was known as Racka varoš or Petrovaradinski Šanac and was part of the Danube military frontier . The original area of Petrovaradin Šanac was in the northwest part of today's Stari grad and the southwest part of today's Podbara .
The Novi Sad City Hall (Serbian: Градска кућа, Gradska kuća, Hungarian: Újvidéki Városháza, Slovak: Novosadská Radnica, Rusyn: Новосадска Ратуша) or the Magistrate [1] is a neo-renaissance [2] building housing the municipal institutions of Novi Sad, the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia.
Religious architecture in Novi Sad is very diverse. Majority of the believers in Novi Sad are from Serbian Orthodox Church, while others are from Roman Catholic Church, many Protestant churches, and Jewish community. Stari Grad is the place with the majority of churches and temples, and they were all built in the 18th and 19th century.
The City Museum of Novi Sad (Serbian: Музеј града Новог Сада, Muzej grada Novog Sada; Hungarian: Újvidéki Városi Múzeum; Slovak: Múzeum mesta Nový Sad; Rusyn: Музей града Новог Сада) founded in 1954, is a complex city museum focusing on Novi Sad's, capital of the province of Vojvodina in Serbia, development from its origins to the modern era. [1]
The City municipality of Novi Sad (Serbian: Градска општина Нови Сад / Gradska opština Novi Sad) was one of two city municipalities which formerly constituted the City of Novi Sad from 2002 to 2019. The city statute adopted in 2019 abolished both of Novi Sad's city municipalities. [2]
It is the primary archival institution for the municipalities of Novi Sad, Titel, Žabalj, Temerin, Vrbas, Bačka Palanka, Bački Petrovac, Beočin and Sremski Karlovci. [3] The archive holds over 7,000 linear meters of archival material, organized into 914 fonds and collections with documents spaning from the mid-18th century to the present ...