34 Facts About Novi Sad

Novi Sad is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina.

Novi Sad was founded in 1694 when Serb merchants formed a colony across the Danube from the Petrovaradin Fortress, a strategic Habsburg military post.

Today, along with the Serbian capital city of Belgrade, Novi Sad is an industrial and financial center important to the Serbian economy.

Novi Sad is the European Capital of Culture for the year 2022 and was the European Youth Capital in 2019.

Novi Sad can refer strictly to only the urban areas of the city, or only to the historical core on the left bank, i e Novi Sad proper excluding Sremska Kamenica and Petrovaradin.

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Between 1849 and 1860, Novi Sad was part of a separate Austrian crownland known as the Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar.

On 25 November 1918, the Assembly of Serbs, Bunjevci and other Slavs of Vojvodina in Novi Sad proclaimed the union of the region of Vojvodina with the Kingdom of Serbia.

From 1 December 1918, Novi Sad was part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes; and in 1929, it became the capital of the Danube Banovina, a province of the newly named Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

Novi Sad became part of the new Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Since 1945, Novi Sad has been the capital of Vojvodina, a province of the Republic of Serbia.

Novi Sad is a typical Central European town in terms of its architecture.

Novi Sad is the second largest city in Serbia, and the largest city in Vojvodina.

Today, Novi Sad is the second largest cultural centre in Serbia, after Belgrade.

Since 2000, Novi Sad is home to the EXIT festival, one of the biggest music summer festivals in Europe.

Novi Sad has several folk song societies, which are known as kulturno-umetnicko drustvo or KUD.

Novi Sad was chosen to be the European Capital of Culture for 2021, however its mandate was moved to 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Typical Serbian food can be found in Novi Sad, including traditional dishes like cevapi, burek, kajmak, kiseli kupus, kiflice and pasulj, as well as fish dishes, local cheeses and charcuterie.

The Museum of Novi Sad, located in the Petrovaradin Fortress, has a permanent collection featuring the history of the old fortress.

Novi Sad is the economic centre of Vojvodina, the most fertile agricultural region in Serbia.

Novi Sad had always been a developed city within the former Yugoslavia.

Economy of Novi Sad has mostly recovered from that period and grown strongly since 2001, shifting from an industry-driven economy to the tertiary sector.

Novi Sad is a growing information technology centre within Serbia, second only to Belgrade.

Novi Sad is the administrative centre of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, and as such, home to Vojvodina's Government and Provincial Assembly.

City of Novi Sad is divided into 47 local communities within two city municipalities, Novi Sad and Petrovaradin, which are separated by the Danube river.

Novi Sad is one of the most important centres of higher education and research in Serbia, with four universities overall and numerous professional, technical, and private colleges and research institutes, including a law school with its own publication.

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Novi Sad has one major daily newspaper, Dnevnik, and among the periodicals, the monthly magazine Vojvodjanski magazin stands out.

Professional sports in Novi Sad mostly revolve around the Vojvodina multi-sport association.

Athletes from Novi Sad had the honour of participating in the first Olympic Games in Athens.

Novi Sad played host to the European and World Championships in table tennis in 1981 and the 29th Chess Olympiad in 1990.

Furthermore, Novi Sad co-hosted the 2005 European Basketball Championship, as well as hosting the 2017 Volleyball World League matches.

Novi Sad's inhabitants engage in a wide range of recreational and leisure activities.

Novi Sad is connected with Zrenjanin and Timisoara on the northwest and Ruma on south with a regional highway; there are long-term plans to upgrade it to a motorway or an expressway, with a tunnel under the Fruska Gora shortcutting the Iriski Venac mountain pass.

Port of Novi Sad is located on the outskirts of the city, on Danube river.

Besides twin cities, Novi Sad has many signed agreements on joint cooperation with other European cities .