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Vukovar Resolution
Vukovar resolution was the document in which Serbs from Vukovar and neighboring communities, at the end of 1939 requested from central Yugoslav government exemption of Vukovar county from the Banovina of Croatia and its annexation to the Danube Banovina or future Banovina of Serbia. Political circumstances With Cvetković-Maček agreement, Banovina of Croatia was created from Sava Banovina, Littoral Banovina, and parts of Vrbas Banovina, Drina Banovina and Zeta Banovina The new creation included large number of areas in which Croats weren't ethnic majority (i.e. were Serbs where ethnic majority), or areas that weren't earlier part of the Croatian state (Prevlaka, Dubrovnik and western Srem). This turn of events provoked outcry in part of the Serbian people because the creation of Banovina of Croatia didn't resolve the so-called Serbian issue. Protests followed, mostly organized or incited by Serbian Cultural Club which demanded revision of Cvetković-Maček agreement, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbs Of Vukovar
The Serbs of Vukovar ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Srbi u Vukovaru, Срби у Вуковару or sh-Latn-Cyrl, label=none, Vukovarski Srbi, Вуковарски Срби) are one of traditional communities living in the multicultural, multi-ethnic and multi-confessional eastern Croatian town of Vukovar on the border with Serbia. The Serb community constitutes slightly over one third of the entire population of Vukovar according to 2011 Census. Other significant communities include the Croat majority, as well as Hungarians, Slovaks, Rusyns, Ukrainians and historically Yugoslavs, Germans, Jews, Vlachs and Turks. The town is the seat of numerous ethnic organizations and institutions, including the headquarters of the Joint Council of Municipalities and the Independent Democratic Serb Party. The surrounding rural region is ethnically heterogeneous. The Serb rural communities constitute the majority in physically adjacent Borovo and the municipalities of Trpinja and Negoslavci. While Vukovar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banovina Hrvatska Kotari
Banovina may refer to: * Banovinas of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1929 to 1941 * Banovina (region) in central Croatia, also known as Banija * ''Radio Banovina'', radio station in the city of Glina, Croatia * Palace ''Banovina'', governmental building complex in the city of Novi Sad Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pan ..., Serbia See also * Banate (other) * Banat (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vác
Vác (; german: Waitzen; sk, Vacov; yi, ווייצען) is a town in Pest county in Hungary with approximately 35,000 inhabitants. The archaic spelling of the name is ''Vácz''. Location Vác is located north of Budapest on the eastern bank of the Danube river, below the bend where the river changes course and flows south. The town is seated at the foot of the Naszály Mountain in the foothills of the Carpathians. Modern Vác Vác is a commercial center as well as a popular summer resort for citizens of Budapest. The Vác Cathedral, built 1761–1777, was modelled after St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. The episcopal palace houses a museum for Roman and medieval artifacts. The city is also known for its 18th-century arch of triumph and for its beautiful baroque city center. History Settlement in Vác dating as far back as the Roman Empire has been found. The origin of its name is debated. One hypothesis says that the name comes from a Hungarian tribal name "Vath". Another theor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svetozar Miletić
Svetozar Miletić ( sr-cyr, Светозар Милетић; 22 February 1826 – 4 February 1901) was a Serbian lawyer, journalist, author and politician who served as the mayor of Novi Sad between 1861 and 1862 and again from 1867 to 1868. Family Miletić's ancestor was Mileta Zavišić, who came to Bačka from Kostajnica (present day Croatia) near the border of Bosnia where he led a company of three hundred men and fought against the Ottomans for thirty two years. Because the Ottomans wanted to punish him after they signed a peace treaty with the Austrians, Mileta moved to Bačka and changed his last name to Miletić. Mileta's son Sima, who was educated to be a merchant in Novi Sad, had fifteen sons and three daughters. Avram Miletić, the oldest of Sima's sons and grandfather of Svetozar Miletić, was a merchant and songwriter best known for writing the earliest collection of urban lyric poetry in the Serbian language. The second son of Avram Miletić, also named Sima l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Branko Radičević
Aleksije "Branko" Radičević ( sr-Cyrl, Алексије Бранко Радичевић, ; 28 March 1824 – 1 July 1853) was a Serbian poet who wrote in the period of Romanticism. Biography Branko Radičević was born in Slavonski Brod on 15 March 1824. Aleksije was his baptismal name before he changed it to Branko, a more common Serbian name. He finished high school in Sremski Karlovci, the setting of his best poems. He then studied in Vienna. In 1847 Radičević's first book of poetry appeared, launching a new era in Serbian poetry. He went to Serbia but soon returned to Vienna to study medicine, where he was surrounded by Serb intellectuals, either living in the city or passing through, including his lifelong friend Bogoboj Atanacković, Vuk Karadžić, Đuro Daničić, Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja and Petar II Petrović-Njegoš. Radičević's second collection of poetry is considered weaker than his first. Near his death he wrote a notable poem titled ''Kad mlidijah umre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dositej Obradović
Dositej Obradović ( sr-Cyrl, Доситеј Обрадовић; 17 February 1739 – 7 April 1811) was a Serbian writer, biographer, diarist, philosopher, pedagogue, educational reformer, linguist, polyglot and the first minister of education of Serbia. An influential protagonist of the Serbian national and cultural renaissance, he advocated Enlightenment and rationalist ideas, while remaining a Serbian patriot and an adherent of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Life Dositej Obradović was born Dimitrije Obradović, probably in 1739, in the Banat village of Čakovo, at the time in the Habsburg monarchy, now Ciacova, Timiş County, Romania. From an early age, he was possessed with a passion for study. Obradović grew up bilingual (in Serbian and Romanian) and learned classical Greek, Latin, modern Greek, German, English, French, Russian, Albanian and Italian. On 17 February 1757 he became a monk in the Serb Orthodox monastery of Hopovo, in the Srem region, and acquired the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zaharije Orfelin
Zaharije Orfelin ( sr-Cyrl, Захаријe Орфелин; 1726 – 19 January 1785) was a Serbs, Serbian polymath who lived and worked in the Austrian Monarchy and Republic of Venice, Venice. Works *''Pesan novosadelanuje za gradjanku gospodicnu Femku'', between 1748 and 1757 *''Pozdrav Mojseju Putniku'', Novi Sad, 1757. *''Omologija'', 1758. *''Hulitelj, Sremski Karlovci, 1759. *''Kratkoje o sedmih tajinstvah nastavlenije'', 1760. *''Gorestni plač slavnija inogda Serbiji'', Venice, 1761 *''Trenodija'', Venice, 1762 *''Plač Serbii, jejaže sini v različnija gosudarstva rasjejali sja'', Venice, 1762 *''Oda na vospominanije vtorago Hristova prišestvija'', 1763. *''Apostolskoje mleko'', Timișoara, 1763. *''Istina o Boze'', Novi Sad, 1764. *''Hristoljubivih dus stihoslovije'', Novi Sad, 1764. *''Sjetovanije naučenogo mladago čelovjeka'', 1764. *''Strasno jevandljelje, Venice, 1764. *''Pjesn istoriceskaja'', Venice 1765. *''Melodija k proleću'', Novi Sad, 1765. *''Slave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgrade
Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. Nearly 1,166,763 million people live within the administrative limits of the City of Belgrade. It is the third largest of all List of cities and towns on Danube river, cities on the Danube river. Belgrade is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe and the world. One of the most important prehistoric cultures of Europe, the Vinča culture, evolved within the Belgrade area in the 6th millennium BC. In antiquity, Thracians, Thraco-Dacians inhabited the region and, after 279 BC, Celts settled the city, naming it ''Singidunum, Singidūn''. It was Roman Serbia, conquered by the Romans under the reign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sremski Karlovci
Sremski Karlovci ( sr-cyrl, Сремски Карловци, ; hu, Karlóca; tr, Karlofça) is a town and municipality located in the South Bačka District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated on the banks of the Danube, from Novi Sad. According to the 2011 census results, it has a population of 8,750 inhabitants. The town has traditionally been known as the seat of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Habsburg Monarchy. It was the political and cultural capital of Serbian Vojvodina after the May Assembly and during the Revolution in 1848. Name In Serbian, the town is known as ''Sremski Karlovci'' (Сремски Карловци), in Croatian as ''Srijemski Karlovci'', in German as ''Karlowitz'' or ''Carlowitz'', in Hungarian as ''Karlóca'', in Polish as ''Karłowice'', in Romanian as ''Carloviț'' and in Turkish as ''Karlofça''. The former Serbian name used for the town was ''Karlovci'' (Карловци), which is also used today, albeit uno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vikentije Jovanović
Vikentije Jovanović ( sr-cyr, Викентије Јовановић; 1689 – June 6, 1737) was the Serbian Orthodox Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci from 1731 to 1737, as Vikentije II. During his diplomatic mission in Vienna in 1734, he was given permission by Emperor Charles VI to establish a hussar A hussar ( , ; hu, huszár, pl, husarz, sh, husar / ) was a member of a class of light cavalry, originating in Central Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries. The title and distinctive dress of these horsemen were subsequently widely ... regiment constituted solely of Serbs and Croats. It was officially named ''Illyrian-Rascian regiment'' and inaugurated on June 16, 1735, in a grand ceremony officiated by Vikentije. The ceremony took place outside Budim where the banners which were used symbolized his importance in the Austrian Empire, but also the dual symbolism of East and West; dual coats of arms on their spears, two languages in their inscriptions (Church Sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbian Vojvodina
The Serbian Vojvodina ( sr, Српска Војводина / ) was a short-lived self-proclaimed Serb autonomous province within the Austrian Empire during the Revolutions of 1848, which existed until 1849 when it was transformed into the new (official) Austrian province named Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar. Name In German, it was known as . In Serbian is also known as (Serbian Cyrillic: , german: Serbische Woiwodschaft, link=no; "Serbian Voivodeship"), (Serbian Cyrillic: ; "Serbian Vojvodovina"), and (Serbian Cyrillic: ; "Vojvodovina of Serbia"). History During the 1848 Revolution, the Hungarians demanded independence from the Austrian Empire. However, they did not recognize the national rights of other nationalities which lived in the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary at that time. Therefore, the Serbs of Vojvodina took action to separate from the Kingdom of Hungary (which was at that time part of Habsburg Austria). An assembly was convened in Sremski Karlovci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bačka
Bačka ( sr-cyrl, Бачка, ) or Bácska () is a geographical and historical area within the Pannonian Plain bordered by the river Danube to the west and south, and by the river Tisza to the east. It is divided between Serbia and Hungary. Most of the area is located within the Vojvodina region in Serbia and Novi Sad, the capital of Vojvodina, lies on the border between Bačka and Syrmia. The smaller northern part of the geographical area is located within Bács-Kiskun County in Hungary. Name According to Serbian historians, Bačka is a typical Slavic name form, created from "Bač" (name of historical town in Bačka) and suffix "ka" (which designates "the land that belongs to Bač"). The name of " Bač" (Bács) town is of uncertain origin and its existence was recorded among Vlachs, Slavs and Hungarians in the Middle Ages. The origin of the name could be Paleo-Balkanic, Romanian, Slavic, or Old Turkic. According to Hungarian historians, the denominator of the la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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