21 Facts About Vojvodina

Vojvodina, officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia.

Vojvodina is the Serbian word for voivodeship, a type of duchy overseen by a voivode.

The Serbian Voivodeship, a precursor to modern Vojvodina, was an Austrian province from 1849 to 1860.

Slavic tribes that lived in the territory of present-day Vojvodina included Abodrites, Severans, Branicevci and Timocani.

Vojvodina created an ephemeral independent state, with Subotica as its capital.

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Vojvodina remained Austrian Crown land until 1860, when Emperor Franz Joseph decided that it would be Hungarian Crown land again.

On 1 December 1918, Vojvodina officially became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

Such crimes in varying regions of Vojvodina were carried out by Nazi Germans, Ustase and Hungarian Axis forces.

Under the 1974 Yugoslav constitution, it gained extensive rights of self-rule, as both Kosovo and Vojvodina were given de facto veto power in the Serbian and Yugoslav parliaments.

Vojvodina was still referred to as an autonomous province of Serbia, but most of its autonomous powers – including, crucially, its vote on the Yugoslav collective presidency – were transferred to the control of Belgrade, the capital.

Vojvodina is situated in the northern quarter of Serbia, in the southeast part of the Pannonian Plain, the plain that remained when the Pliocene Pannonian Sea dried out.

The Vojvodina climate is characterized by a vast range of extreme temperatures and very irregular rainfall distribution per month.

The Government of Vojvodina is the executive administrative body composed of a president and cabinet ministers.

Current ruling coalition in the Vojvodina parliament is composed of the following political parties: Serbian Progressive Party, Socialist Party of Serbia and Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians.

Vojvodina is more diverse than the rest of Serbia with more than 25 ethnic groups and six languages which are in official use by the provincial administration.

Public Broadcasting Service of Vojvodina was founded in 1974 as Radio Television of Novi Sad, as an equal member of the association of JRT – Yugoslav Radio Television.

Radio-Television of Vojvodina produces and broadcasts regional programming on two channels, RTV1 and RTV2, and three radio frequencies: Radio Novi Sad 1, Radio Novi Sad 2, Radio Novi Sad 3 .

Economy of Vojvodina is largely based on developed food industry and fertile agricultural soil.

Metal industry of Vojvodina has a long tradition and consists of smaller metal processing companies for components manufacturing and, to a lesser extent, of original equipment manufacturers with their own brand name products.

Vojvodina pays particular attention to interregional and cross-border economic cooperation, as well as to implementation of priorities defined within the EU Strategy for the Danube Region.

Tourist destinations in Vojvodina include well known Orthodox monasteries on Fruska Gora mountain, numerous hunting grounds, cultural-historical monuments, different folklores, interesting galleries and museums, plain landscapes with a lot of greenery, big rivers, canals and lakes, sandy terrain Deliblatska Pescara, etc.