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During the Ottoman rule, Petrovaradin had 200 (mostly Muslim) houses. There was also a Christian quarter with 35 houses populated by ethnic Serbs. [1] In the year 1590, population of all villages that existed in the territory of present-day Novi Sad (on the left bank of the Danube) numbered 105 houses inhabited exclusively by Serbs.
Hungarians form 3.53% of Serbia's total population and 13% of Vojvodina, where most of them are living. [1] Hungarians are present in the region since the Middle Ages and today they are largest minority in Vojvodina. The Hungarian language is one of the six official languages of the region.
Urban settlement Cyrillic Name City / municipality District Population (1991) Population (2002) Population (2011) Bač: Бач Bač: South Bačka: 6,046 6,087
The City Municipality of Novi Sad was situated in the southern part of the Bačka region. The total area of City of Novi Sad was 699 km², and the area of the city municipality was 671.8 km². The municipality laid in one of the southern lowest parts of the Pannonian Plain.
[67] [68] Ethnic map of the Hungary proper publicized by the Hungarian delegation. Regions with population density below 20 persons/km 2 [69] are left blank and the corresponding population is represented in the nearest region with population density above that limit. The vibrant, dominant red color was deliberately chosen to mark Hungarians ...
In 1921, the population of Novi Sad numbered 39,122 inhabitants, 16,293 of whom spoke the Serbian language, 12,991 Hungarian, 6,373 German, 1,117 Slovak, etc. [26] In 1941, Yugoslavia was invaded and partitioned by the Axis powers, and its northern parts, including Novi Sad, were annexed by Hungary.
In total, 5,650 Hungarians were executed. A Soviet officer in Temerin prevented the extirpation of the whole Hungarian population of the village. Hungarian human loss of the village was 480 people. During the first week, about 1500 Hungarians were shot down into the Danube in Novi Sad under the leadership of Todor Gavrilović.
The general demographic trend in Vojvodina is a natural decrease in population. According to the 2011 census, the average age of the population of the province was 41.8. Ever since 1989, Vojvodina recorded negative natural growth, including all the ethnic groups.