Čardak (
Cyrillic
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: Чардак) is a neighborhood of
Sremska Kamenica
Sremska Kamenica (Serbian Cyrillic: ''Сремска Каменица'', ) is a town and urban neighborhood of Novi Sad, in Serbia.
Name
In Serbian, the town is known as ''Sremska Kamenica'' (Сремска Каменица), in Croatian ...
,
Serbia
Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...
. This neighborhood is located on a hill, with an elevation of 190 m, overlooking
Donja Kamenica to the north,
Alibegovac
This is a list of the neighbourhoods and suburbs of Novi Sad.
Neighbourhoods on the left bank of the Danube
* Stari Grad (Old City, City Centre)
*Bulevar
* Liman (Liman I, Liman II, Liman III, Liman IV)
* Almaški Kraj
*Podbara
** Industr ...
to the east and
Paragovo
Paragovo ( Cyrillic: Парагово) is a hamlet in the urban area of Novi Sad and one of the neighborhoods of Sremska Kamenica, in Serbia.
It is located between three hills, Popovica on the west and Glavica and Čardak on the east; at the ...
and
Staroiriški Put to the west. Čardak is only a few kilometers from the border of
Fruška Gora National Park.
From Čardak, there are also views of the western part 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 ...
,
Veternik
Veternik ( sr-cyr, Ветерник) is a suburban settlement of the city of Novi Sad, Serbia. Its population numbers 17,454 (2011 census) and most of its inhabitants are ethnic Serbs. Over the years, especially in the 1990s, it grew with size and ...
and the
Danube
The Danube ( ; ) is a river that was once a long-standing frontier of the Roman Empire and today connects 10 European countries, running through their territories or being a border. Originating in Germany, the Danube flows southeast for , pa ...
river. Čardak is connected to the Sremska Kamenica center and Novi Sad by
JGSP Novi Sad
JGSP Novi Sad (full legal name: ''Javno Gradsko Saobraćajno Preduzeće Novi Sad'') is a public transit company for the city of Novi Sad.
History
The company was founded on 3 August 1946 by order of the city, although the first modern tram line i ...
bus line number 69 and 71 (only specific departures).
Children’s Hospital for Treatment of Osteoarticular Tuberculosis
The English-Yugoslav Children’s Hospital for Treatment of Osteoarticular Tuberculosis was founded in Čardak by
Katherine S. Macphail in 1934. The hospital was nationalized in 1947 and became part of the Orthopedic Surgery Department of the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade in 1948. The hospital closed again due to lack of repairs and investments, but reopened during the
Yugoslav Wars
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but related#Naimark, Naimark (2003), p. xvii. ethnic conflicts, wars of independence, and Insurgency, insurgencies that took place in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, SFR Yugoslavia from ...
as a safe haven for fleeing refugees. It subsequently closed for economic reasons, but a statue of Macphail remains. A street in Čardak , where the hospital used to be, is now named after Katherine Macphail.
References
Novi Sad neighborhoods
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