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Novi Sad (Нови Сад) is the second largest city of Serbia, the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina and the administrative center of the South Bačka District. It is located in the southern part of the Pannonian Plain, on the border of the Bačka and Srem geographical regions, on the banks of the Danube river, facing the northern slopes of Fruška Gora mountain.
Novi Sad was founded in 1694, when Serb merchants formed a colony across the Danube from the Petrovaradin fortress, a Habsburg strategic military post. In the 18th and 19th centuries, it became an important trading and manufacturing centre, as well as a centre of Serbian culture of that period, earning the nickname of the Serbian Athens. The city was heavily devastated in the 1848 Revolution, but it was subsequently restored. Today, along with the capital city of Belgrade, Novi Sad is the industrial and financial center of the Serbian economy. Novi Sad was named to be one of three 2021 European Capital of Culture cities.
In the 19th century, the city was the capital of Serbian culture, earning the nickname Serbian Athens. In that time, almost every Serbian novelist, poet, jurist, and publicist at the end of 19th century and at the beginning of 20th century had lived or worked in Novi Sad some time of his or her career. Among others, these cultural workers include Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Mika Antić, Đura Jakšić, etc. Matica srpska, the oldest cultural-scientific institution of Serbia, was moved from Budapest to Novi Sad in 1864, and contains second-largest library in the country (the Library of Matica srpska) with over 3.5 million volumes. The Serbian National Theatre, the oldest professional theatre among the South Slavs, was founded in Novi Sad in 1861.
Today, Novi Sad is the second cultural centre in Serbia (besides Belgrade) and city's officials try to make the city more attractive to numerous cultural events and music concerts. Since 2000, Novi Sad is home to the EXIT festival, one of the biggest music summer festival in Europe. Other important cultural events are Sterijino pozorje theatre festival, Zmaj Children Games, International Novi Sad Literature Festival, Novi Sad Jazz Festival, and many others. Besides Serbian National Theatre, the most prominent theatres are also Novi Sad Theatre, Youth Theatre, and Cultural centre of Novi Sad. Novi Sad Synagogue also houses many cultural events . Other city's cultural institutions include Detachment of the Serbian Academy of Science and Art, Library of Matica Srpska, Novi Sad City Library and Azbukum. City is also home to the Archive of Vojvodina, which collect many documents from Vojvodina dating from 1565.
Novi Sad has several folk song societies, which are known as kulturno-umetničko društvo or KUD. The most well known societies in the city are: KUD Svetozar Marković, AKUD Sonja Marinković, SKUD Željezničar, FA Vila and the oldest SZPD Neven, established in 1892. National minorities expose their own tradition, folklore and songs in Hungarian MKUD Petőfi Sándor, Slovak SKUD Pavel Jozef Šafárik, Ruthenian RKC Novi Sad, and other societies.
The city has several museums and galleries, public and privately owned. The most well known museum in the city is Museum of Vojvodina, founded in 1847, which houses a permanent collection of Serbian culture and a life in Vojvodina through history. Museum of Novi Sad in Petrovaradin Fortress has a permanent collection of history of fortress. Gallery of Matica Srpska is the biggest and most respected gallery in the city, which has two galleries in the city centre. There is also The Gallery of Fine Arts - Gift Collection of Rajko Mamuzić and The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection - one of the biggest collections of Serbian art from the 1900s until the 1970s.
The number of tourists visiting Novi Sad each year has steadily risen since 2000. Every year, in the beginning of July, during the annual EXIT music festival, the city is full of young people from all over Europe. In 2008, over 200,000 people visited the festival. Besides EXIT festival, Novi Sad Fair attracts many business people into the city; in May, the city is home to the biggest agricultural show in the region, which 600,000 people visited in 2005. There is also a tourist port near Varadin Bridge in the city centre welcoming various river cruise vessels from across Europe who cruise on Danube river. The most recognized structure in Novi Sad is Petrovaradin Fortress, which dominates the city and with scenic views of the city. Besides the fortress, there is also historic neighborhood of Stari Grad, with many monuments, museums, caffes, restaurants and shops. There is also a National Park of Fruška Gora nearby, approx. 20 km (12 mi) from city centre.
Monasteries near Gornji Milanovac, Serbia (Voljavca, Kamenac, Vracevsnica, Savinac, Vujan)
MONASTERY VOLJAVCA is located in Tavnik village, 15 km from Kraljevo. Monastery’s name originates from the village with the same name. Complex is consisted of two churches, an old one, log cabin church, and new church.
The old church was built during Princ Milos’s reign, by the patriarch Arsenije III Carnojevic (1690), on the foundations of the earlier temples, which has been demolished by the Turks, when they arrived in this parts. All what was left behind them was a stone cup from which healing water flowed. The same stone cup still exists in today’s church, it has been dried up when some of the villagers began to feed the cattle from the source. The church is dedicated to St. Prokopije.
If you visit the monastery, you will receive, as a gift, the bottle of holy water consisting from holy waters that was brought by the moncs from doezens different holy places.
New church, dedicated to St. Petka, dates from 1967, and it was built because of the need of people for bigger church.
MONASTERY KAMENAC is located a few kilometers from Gruza, near the village Cestina. The foundation of the monastery is related to the despot Stefan Lazarevic from the late 14th and early 15th century. The monastery was destroyed by the arrival of the Turks in these parts in the mid-15th century. It was rebuilt in 1700 and again in 1870. At the beginning of the 20th century, King Peter I Karadjordjevic financed building of the entrance to the church.
On one of church stones, on the part of the wall from the exterior fasade, there is an imprint of St. Sava’s foot. In the courtyard is a monument to the warriors who fell in the wars from 1912 to 1918. Left and right from the front door are two doves carved into stone cubes. From the back part of the church was one of the oldest schools in Serbia, built in 1818.
All monastery products in the shop are made according to the old recepies found in the monastery and according to the recipies given to the monastery by believers. There are herbal teas, honey and honey-based products, tinctures, home-made soaps, balms, plum bandy, blackberry wine, religious books, etc. All herbal products or food are plant-based, without artificial substances.
MONASTERY VRACEVSNICA is located next to the village with same name, in the municipality of Gornji Milanovac. It was built in the 15th century. Building of the monastery was the expression of thankfulness to God because all inhabitants of mentioned village returned to their homes, alive and well, from the Kosovo battle.
Vracevsnica monastery has long been an important political and cultural center of the whole region, with first schools in this area. Vozd Karadjordje often visited the monastery, and the mother of Prince Milos Obrenovic, popularly known as Grandma Visnja, was buried in the monastery’s cortyartd, near St. George's church. Prince Milos built a resting house in the monastery’s courtyard for his mother’s soul.
The rebels set off from this monastery in 1815, after the Holy Communion, across the mountain Takovo and raised the Second Serbian Revolution against Turkish government.
In the monastery treasury are kept importan objects: icons, pieces of furniture of the Obrenovic family, a portrait of Princ Milos, the work of the famous painter Djura Jaksic.
In the monastery shop you can buy many products made by moncs, and far away is famous their honey.
ST. SAVA CHURCH - SAVINAC was built in 1819, with support of Princ Milos Obrenovic. It was built not far from where it is believed that it was formerly a medieval Savinac monastery, dating back to the Nemanjic's reign. After the liturgy, St. Sava went down to the spring on Dicina and sanctificated it, so this spring is called St. Sava’s spring, and the place around the spring was called Savinac.
In the crypt of the church there are the relics of Mina Karadzic Vukomanovic, Vuk Karadzic’s daughter, her husband Aleksa Vukomanovic's, a cousin of Princess Ljubica, and their child Janko's relics. There are kept the relics of Pricess Ljubica’s parents, and the relics of Obren Martinovic, the first husband of Princ Milos’s mother, by whom Obrenovics got their surname.
MONASTERY VUJAN dates from the 13th century. It is located in the area of Prislonica village. It is male monastery. The church in the monastery complex, dedicated to St. Archangel Michael, was built in 1805, by Nikola Milicevic Lunjevica, grandfather of Queen Draga, the last queen during the reign of Obrenovic.
The monastery was a learning center when there were no schools. The current frescoes are of no greater artistic value and date back to 1939 and 1943. Only a pillar of honorable dining table remained as a memorial to Nemanjic’s times.
The monastery preserves St. Vujan’s relics. As well, the remains of Queen Draga, Nikodia and Nikola Lunjevica are kept there, all killed during the May coup in 1903.
The most beloved Serbian patriarch Pavle became the monc in this monastery.
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Serbia (Serbian: Србија / Srbija [sř̩bija]), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: Република Србија / Republika Srbija [repǔblika sř̩bija]), is a country situated at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe in the southern Pannonian Plain and the central Balkans. The sovereign state borders Hungary to the north; Romania and Bulgaria to the east; Macedonia to the south; Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to the west. The country claims a border with Albania through the disputed territory of Kosovo. Serbia numbers around 7 million residents. Its capital, Belgrade, ranks among the oldest and largest cities in southeastern Europe.Following the Slavic migrations to the Balkans postdating the 6th century, Serbs established several sovereign states in the early Middle Ages which at times nominally recognized Byzantine, Frankish and Hungarian overrule. The Serbian Kingdom obtained recognition by the Vatican and Constantinople in 1217, reaching its peak in 1346 as a relatively short-lived Serbian Empire. By the mid-16th century, the entire modern-day Serbia was annexed by the Ottomans, at times interrupted by the Habsburg Empire, which started expanding towards Central Serbia from the end of the 17th century, while maintaining a foothold in modern-day Vojvodina. In the early 19th century, the Serbian Revolution established the nation-state as the region's first constitutional monarchy, which subsequently expanded its territory. Following disastrous casualties in World War I, and the subsequent unification of the former Habsburg crownland of Vojvodina (and other territories) with Serbia, the country co-founded Yugoslavia with other South Slavic peoples, which would exist in various political formations until the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. During the breakup of Yugoslavia, the country declared independence in April 1992 as Serbia formed a union with Montenegro, which was peacefully dissolved in 2006. In 2008, the parliament of the province of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence, with mixed responses from the international community.
Serbia is a member of the UN, CoE, OSCE, PfP, BSEC, CEFTA and it is acceding to the WTO. Since 2014 the country has been negotiating its EU accession with perspective of joining the European Union by 2025 and is the only country in the current enlargement agenda which is designated as free by Freedom House. Since 2007, Serbia formally adheres to the policy of military neutrality. An upper-middle income economy with a dominant service sector followed by the industrial sector and agriculture, the country ranks high by the Human Development Index (66th), Social Progress Index (45th) as well as the Global Peace Index (54th).
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Serbia (Serbian: Србија / Srbija [sř̩bija]), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: Република Србија / Republika Srbija [repǔblika sř̩bija]), is a country situated at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe in the southern Pannonian Plain and the central Balkans. The sovereign state borders Hungary to the north; Romania and Bulgaria to the east; Macedonia to the south; Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to the west. The country claims a border with Albania through the disputed territory of Kosovo. Serbia numbers around 7 million residents. Its capital, Belgrade, ranks among the oldest and largest cities in southeastern Europe.Following the Slavic migrations to the Balkans postdating the 6th century, Serbs established several sovereign states in the early Middle Ages which at times nominally recognized Byzantine, Frankish and Hungarian overrule. The Serbian Kingdom obtained recognition by the Vatican and Constantinople in 1217, reaching its peak in 1346 as a relatively short-lived Serbian Empire. By the mid-16th century, the entire modern-day Serbia was annexed by the Ottomans, at times interrupted by the Habsburg Empire, which started expanding towards Central Serbia from the end of the 17th century, while maintaining a foothold in modern-day Vojvodina. In the early 19th century, the Serbian Revolution established the nation-state as the region's first constitutional monarchy, which subsequently expanded its territory. Following disastrous casualties in World War I, and the subsequent unification of the former Habsburg crownland of Vojvodina (and other territories) with Serbia, the country co-founded Yugoslavia with other South Slavic peoples, which would exist in various political formations until the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. During the breakup of Yugoslavia, the country declared independence in April 1992 as Serbia formed a union with Montenegro, which was peacefully dissolved in 2006. In 2008, the parliament of the province of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence, with mixed responses from the international community.
Serbia is a member of the UN, CoE, OSCE, PfP, BSEC, CEFTA and it is acceding to the WTO. Since 2014 the country has been negotiating its EU accession with perspective of joining the European Union by 2025 and is the only country in the current enlargement agenda which is designated as free by Freedom House. Since 2007, Serbia formally adheres to the policy of military neutrality. An upper-middle income economy with a dominant service sector followed by the industrial sector and agriculture, the country ranks high by the Human Development Index (66th), Social Progress Index (45th) as well as the Global Peace Index (54th).
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Serbia (Serbian: Србија / Srbija [sř̩bija]), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: Република Србија / Republika Srbija [repǔblika sř̩bija]), is a country situated at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe in the southern Pannonian Plain and the central Balkans. The sovereign state borders Hungary to the north; Romania and Bulgaria to the east; Macedonia to the south; Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to the west. The country claims a border with Albania through the disputed territory of Kosovo. Serbia numbers around 7 million residents. Its capital, Belgrade, ranks among the oldest and largest cities in southeastern Europe.Following the Slavic migrations to the Balkans postdating the 6th century, Serbs established several sovereign states in the early Middle Ages which at times nominally recognized Byzantine, Frankish and Hungarian overrule. The Serbian Kingdom obtained recognition by the Vatican and Constantinople in 1217, reaching its peak in 1346 as a relatively short-lived Serbian Empire. By the mid-16th century, the entire modern-day Serbia was annexed by the Ottomans, at times interrupted by the Habsburg Empire, which started expanding towards Central Serbia from the end of the 17th century, while maintaining a foothold in modern-day Vojvodina. In the early 19th century, the Serbian Revolution established the nation-state as the region's first constitutional monarchy, which subsequently expanded its territory. Following disastrous casualties in World War I, and the subsequent unification of the former Habsburg crownland of Vojvodina (and other territories) with Serbia, the country co-founded Yugoslavia with other South Slavic peoples, which would exist in various political formations until the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. During the breakup of Yugoslavia, the country declared independence in April 1992 as Serbia formed a union with Montenegro, which was peacefully dissolved in 2006. In 2008, the parliament of the province of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence, with mixed responses from the international community.
Serbia is a member of the UN, CoE, OSCE, PfP, BSEC, CEFTA and it is acceding to the WTO. Since 2014 the country has been negotiating its EU accession with perspective of joining the European Union by 2025 and is the only country in the current enlargement agenda which is designated as free by Freedom House. Since 2007, Serbia formally adheres to the policy of military neutrality. An upper-middle income economy with a dominant service sector followed by the industrial sector and agriculture, the country ranks high by the Human Development Index (66th), Social Progress Index (45th) as well as the Global Peace Index (54th).
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00:02:50 1 Etymology
00:04:55 2 History
00:05:04 2.1 Prehistory
00:05:52 2.2 Ancient history
00:07:51 2.3 Middle Ages
00:09:33 2.4 Ottoman and Habsburg rule
00:11:47 2.5 Revolution and independence
00:14:24 2.6 Balkan Wars, World War I and the First Yugoslavia
00:18:39 2.7 World War II and the Second Yugoslavia
00:22:56 2.8 Breakup of Yugoslavia and political transition
00:26:18 2.9 Recent history
00:27:51 3 Geography
00:30:34 3.1 Climate
00:33:24 3.2 Hydrology
00:35:08 3.3 Environment
00:38:38 4 Politics
00:40:49 4.1 Law and criminal justice
00:41:51 4.2 Foreign relations
00:44:09 4.3 Military
00:46:09 4.4 Administrative divisions
00:47:23 5 Demographics
00:50:30 5.1 Religion
00:52:20 5.2 Language
00:53:33 6 Economy
00:56:35 6.1 Agriculture
00:58:34 6.2 Industry
01:00:46 6.3 Energy
01:04:36 6.4 Transport
01:08:27 6.5 Telecommunications
01:09:21 6.6 Tourism
01:10:45 7 Education and science
01:15:11 8 Culture
01:17:14 8.1 Art and architecture
01:20:16 8.2 Literature
01:25:29 8.3 Music
01:31:11 8.4 Theatre and cinema
01:34:31 8.5 Media
01:37:51 8.6 Cuisine
01:39:24 8.7 Sports
01:45:06 9 Public holidays
01:45:23 10 See also
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Serbia (Serbian: Србија / Srbija [sř̩bija]), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: Република Србија / Republika Srbija [repǔblika sř̩bija]), is a country situated at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe in the southern Pannonian Plain and the central Balkans. The sovereign state borders Hungary to the north, Romania to the northeast, Bulgaria to the southeast, Macedonia to the south, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to the southwest. The country claims a border with Albania through the disputed territory of Kosovo. Serbia numbers around 7 million residents. Its capital, Belgrade, ranks among the oldest and largest cities in southeastern Europe.Inhabited since the Paleolithic Age, the Slavic migrations to the Balkans in the 6th century established several sovereign states in the early Middle Ages which at times nominally recognized Byzantine, Frankish and Hungarian overrule. The Serbian Kingdom obtained recognition by the Vatican and Constantinople in 1217, reaching its peak in 1346 as a relatively short-lived Serbian Empire. By the mid-16th century, the entire modern-day Serbia was annexed by the Ottomans, at times interrupted by the Habsburg Empire, which started expanding towards Central Serbia from the end of the 17th century, while maintaining a foothold in modern-day Vojvodina. In the early 19th century, the Serbian Revolution established the nation-state as the region's first constitutional monarchy, which subsequently expanded its territory. Following disastrous casualties in World War I, and the subsequent unification of the former Habsburg crownland of Vojvodina (and other territories) with Serbia, the country co-founded Yugoslavia with other South Slavic peoples, which would exist in various political formations until the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. During the breakup of Yugoslavia, Serbia formed a union with Montenegro, which was peacefully dissolved in 2006. In 2008, the parliament of the province of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence, with mixed responses from the international community.
Serbia is a member of the UN, CoE, OSCE, PfP, BSEC, CEFTA and it is acceding to the WTO. Since 2014 the country has been negotiating its EU accession with perspective of joining the European Union by 2025 and is the only country in the current enlargement agenda which is designated as free by Freedom House. Since 2007, Serbia formally adheres to the policy of military neutrality. An upper-middle income economy with a dominant service sector followed by the industrial sector and agriculture, the country ranks high by the Human Development Index (66th), Social Pr ...