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Novi Sad University
The University of Novi Sad ( sr, Универзитет у Новом Саду, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu; hu, Újvidéki Egyetem) is a public university in Novi Sad, Serbia. Alongside nationally prestigious University of Belgrade, University of Novi Sad is one of the most important educational and research institutions in Serbia and South Eastern Europe and the flagship institution of higher education in Vojvodina. It was attended by 42,489 students and it employed 3,219 members of academic staff in 2018–19 academic year. It is composed of 14 faculties and three institutes located in four university cities - Novi Sad, Sombor, Subotica and Zrenjanin. Institution belongs to the group of comprehensive research universities with significant level of research activities. History The University of Novi Sad was being caste in a special milieu built by generations of foremost intellectuals, as well as institutions of particular national significance, in the towns of Vojvodina with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public University
A public university or public college is a university or college that is in owned by the state or receives significant public funds through a national or subnational government, as opposed to a private university. Whether a national university is considered public varies from one country (or region) to another, largely depending on the specific education landscape. Africa Egypt In Egypt, Al-Azhar University was founded in 970 AD as a madrasa; it formally became a public university in 1961 and is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the world. In the 20th century, Egypt opened many other public universities with government-subsidized tuition fees, including Cairo University in 1908, Alexandria University in 1912, Assiut University in 1928, Ain Shams University in 1957, Helwan University in 1959, Beni-Suef University in 1963, Zagazig University in 1974, Benha University in 1976, and Suez Canal University in 1989. Kenya In Kenya, the Ministry of Ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petrovaradin Fortress
Petrovaradin Fortress ( sr, Петроварадинска тврђава, Petrovaradinska tvrđava, ; hu, Péterváradi vár), nicknamed "Gibraltar on/of the Danube", is a fortress in the town of Petrovaradin, itself part of the City of Novi Sad, Serbia. It is located on the right bank of the Danube river. The cornerstone of the present-day southern part of the fortress was laid on 18 October 1692 by Charles Eugène de Croÿ. Petrovaradin Fortress has many tunnels as well as of uncollapsed underground countermine system. In 1991 Petrovaradin Fortress was added to Spatial Cultural-Historical Units of Great Importance list of the Republic of Serbia. History Recent archeological discoveries have offered a new perspective not only on the history of Petrovaradin, but on the entire region. At the upper fortress, the remains of an earlier Paleolithic settlement dating from 19,000 to 15,000 BC has been discovered. With this new development it has been established that there has been a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attila Juhász
Attila Juhász ( sr, Атила Јухас, ) (born July 15, 1967 in Senta, SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia) is an ethnic Hungarian politician in Serbia. He was the president of Senta municipality as a member of Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians. He graduated in 1996 from the University of Novi Sad The University of Novi Sad ( sr, Универзитет у Новом Саду, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu; hu, Újvidéki Egyetem) is a public university in Novi Sad, Serbia. Alongside nationally prestigious University of Belgrade, University of ... as a teacher of Hungarian language and literature. He worked for the Radio Novi Sad and contributed to the ''Napló'' newspaper. Between 1997-2008 he was the mayor of Senta. He is a member of the Vojvodina Parliament. Personal life His parents are Ferencz Juhász and Mária Kurin. He is married. His wife is Kornélia Juhász Lassu. They have two daughters, Boglárka and Orsolya. References * External links * 1967 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mile Isakov
Miodrag "Mile" Isakov ( sr, Миодраг "Миле" Исаков) (born 20 March 1950 in Zemun, Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia) is a former Serbian politician, journalist and diplomat. He is most notable as a long-time leader of the Reformists of Vojvodina (RV) political party. Until February 2009, he was the List of Ambassadors from Serbia, Serbian Ambassador to Israel. Early life Born in the suburb of the capital Belgrade, Isakov attended primary school in the villages of Tovariševo and Silbaš near Bačka Palanka. He then completed secondary education (gymnasium (school), gymnasium) in Novi Sad and also attended high school in Carsonville, Michigan, Carsonville, a village in the US state of Michigan. In 1974, he graduated from the University of Novi Sad's Faculty of Philosophy with a degree in Yugoslav literature. In 1975 he got a job at TV Novi Sad, a state-run broadcaster where he stayed until 1994. During the late 1980s he wrote the screenplay of the comedy series ''Specijalna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Stojmenovic
Ivan () is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John) from Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was Bulgarian tsar Ivan Vladislav. It is very popular in Russia, Ukraine, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Belarus, North Macedonia, and Montenegro and has also become more popular in Romance-speaking countries since the 20th century. Etymology Ivan is the common Slavic Latin spelling, while Cyrillic spelling is two-fold: in Bulgarian, Russian, Macedonian, Serbian and Montenegrin it is Иван, while in Belarusian and Ukrainian it is Іван. The Old Church Slavonic (or Old Cyrillic) spelling is . It is the Slavic relative of the Latin name , corresponding to English ''John''. This Slavic version of the name originates from New Testament Greek (''Iōánnēs'') rather than from the Latin . The Greek name is in tur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josip Novakovich
Josip Novakovich (Croatian: ''Novaković'') is a Croatian Canadian writer. Early life and education Josip Novakovich was born in Yugoslavia (in 1956) and grew up in the central Croatian town of Daruvar. Novakovich studied medicine at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia. He left Yugoslavia to avoid service in the Yugoslav People's Army, and moved to the United States at the age of 20. He continued his education at Vassar College (B.A.), Yale Divinity School (M.Div.), and the University of Texas, Austin (M.A.). Career Novakovich has published a novel (''April Fool's Day''), four short story collections (''Yolk'', ''Salvation and Other Disasters'', ''Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust'', Tumbleweed), four collections of narrative essays (''Apricots from Chernobyl'', ''Plum Brandy: Croatian Journey'', ''Three Deaths'', and ''Shopping for a Better Country''); and two textbooks (''Writing Fiction Step by Step'', ''Fiction Writer's Workshop'') and hundreds of short stories and ess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyubomir Miletich
Lyubomir Miletich ( bg, Любомир Милетич) (14 January 1863 – 1 June 1937) was a leading Bulgarian linguist, ethnographer, dialectologist and historian, as well as the chairman of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences from 1926 to his death. Biography Lyubomir Miletich was born in Štip, today in North Macedonia, to a Bulgarian family originally from Edirne Edirne (, ), formerly known as Adrianople or Hadrianopolis (Greek: Άδριανούπολις), is a city in Turkey, in the northwestern part of the province of Edirne in Eastern Thrace. Situated from the Greek and from the Bulgarian borders, ... (Odrin) in modern Eastern Thrace, Turkey. His great-grandfather ''voivode'' Mile had left Edirne and settled in the Austrian Banat in the early 19th century, where Lyubomir's grandfather Simo was born. Simo had two sons, Svetozar Miletić, Svetozar and Đorđe Miletić, Đorđe, Lyubomir's father, who, after briefly living in Bosnia (region), Bosnia and North Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayles Browne
Eppes Wayles Browne (born 1941, Washington, DC) is a linguist, Slavist, translator and editor of Slavic journals in several countries. Browne is Professor emeritus of Linguistics at Cornell University, with research interests in Slavic and general linguistics, notably the study and analysis of Serbo-Croatian, where he is one of the leading Western scholars. Biography Browne's Slavic studies began with his undergraduate career at Harvard University (A.B., 1963, in Linguistics and Slavic Languages), and continued with graduate work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Novi Sad (then in SFR Yugoslavia), culminating in a Ph.D. degree (dated 1980, defended in January 1981, and awarded in 1983) from the University of Zagreb. He studied with some of the finest linguists and Slavicists of the 20th century, including Roman Jakobson, Horace G. Lunt, Morris Halle, and Pavle Ivić. His dissertation, directed by , was entitled ''Relativna rečenica u hrvatskom ili s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jovan Zivlak
Jovan Zivlak (born. 1947, in Nakovo, Serbia), is a Serbian poet, publisher and essayist. Life and career Jovan Zivlak was born in 1947 in Serbian Nakovo in Banat, a region of Vojvodina, near the Romanian border. He ended his secondary school education in Kikinda, and graduated from the University of Novi Sad with a degree in Serbian language and literature. He was editor for the magazine '' Polja''. Zivlak was also the editor in chief of ''Svetovi'' publishing from 1985 to 2007. He is currently the manager of ''Adresa'' publishing. He is the founder and, since 2001, has been editor in chief of the magazine for literature, art, culture and thought, ''Zlatna Greda''. He has been the president and (current) vice-president of the Writers' Association of Vojvodina and head of the International Novi Sad Literature Festival The International Novi Sad Literature Festival (Serbian: Međunarodni književni festival) is a literary festival held annually in the city of Novi Sad, Serbia. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mihajlo Kažić
Mihajlo Kažić (in Serbian Михајло Кажић) (born in Pristina in 1960) is a Serbian novelist. He trained as an engineer, completing a civil engineering degree at the University of Novi Sad. In 1985 he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study in the US, and obtained his M.Sc. and PhD in Engineering from the University of California in Los Angeles in 1986 and 1988 respectively. He worked as a science researcher and lecturer in Novi Sad (Serbia), Los Angeles, Corvallis, Oregon and in Paris (France) and Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ... (Germany). Kazic has since worked with several construction companies in Germany. ''Emperor of the Galatians'' is his first work to be published in English. The book was originally printed in Germany by Kiepe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragomir Dujmov
Dragomir Dujmov (''Serbian Cyrillic'': Драгомир Дујмов) is a Serbian poet, novelist and short story writer from Hungary. Biography Dujmov is considered to be one of the leading Serbian poet and writer in Hungary. Dragomir Dujmov was born on March 17, 1963 in Szentes (Hungary). He grew up in a patriotic Serbian family in Katymar near the Serbian-Hungarian border close to the town of Baja. He continued his education in Budapest in the Serbo-Croatian Secondary School. He graduated from the University of Novi Sad's Faculty of Philosophy in 1989.(Serbia). Dujmov is a teacher in Serbian Grammar-school in Budapest. Dragomir Dujmov started his literary career as a poet. There followed a period in which Dujmov concentrated on the writing of short stories, tales and novels about Serbs in Hungary. In 1992 he published a book of poetry ''Sunce se nebom bori'' (Sun fightings with Heaven). His first novel B''eli putevi'' (White Roads) was published in 2000. Dujmov takes his mater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Court Of Justice
The International Court of Justice (ICJ; french: Cour internationale de justice, links=no; ), sometimes known as the World Court, is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN). It settles disputes between states in accordance with international law and gives advisory opinions on international legal issues. The ICJ is the only international court that adjudicates general disputes between countries, with its rulings and opinions serving as primary sources of international law. The ICJ is the successor of the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ), which was established in 1920 by the League of Nations. After the Second World War, both the league and the PCIJ were replaced by the United Nations and ICJ, respectively. The Statute of the ICJ, which sets forth its purpose and structure, draws heavily from that of its predecessor, whose decisions remain valid. All member states of the UN are party to the ICJ Statute and may initiate contentious cases; ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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