Stari Slankamen ( sr-Cyrl, Стари Сланкамен), also known as Slankamen ( sr-Cyrl, Сланкамен), is a village located in the

Inđija Inđija (, ) is a town and a municipality located in the Srem District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. As of 2022, the town has total population of 24,450, while the municipality has 43,433 inhabitants. It is located in the geogr ...

municipality, in the

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. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of

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, across the mouth of the

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into the

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Name

Its name means "Old Slankamen", while the name of the neighbouring village,

Novi Slankamen Novi Slankamen () is a village in Serbia. It is located in the municipality of Inđija, Syrmia District, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. Novi Slankamen is situated about 15 kilometers east of Inđija, on the bank of Danube ( Dunav) and has a tot ...

, means "New Slankamen". The name "Slankamen" itself means "the salty stone" in

Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian ( / ), also known as Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS), is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. It is a pluricentric language with four mutually i ...

. In Hungarian the village is known as ''Szalánkemén'' or ''Sztari Szlankamen'' (formerly also: ''Zalánkemén''), in

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as ''Alt-Slankamen'', and in Turkish as ''Salankamen''.

History

In the 3rd century BC, the area was inhabited by

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Scordisci The Scordisci (; ) were an Iron Age cultural group who emerged after the Celtic settlement of Southeast Europe, and who were centered in the territory of present-day Serbia, at the confluence of the Savus (Sava), Dravus (Drava), Margus (Morav ...

. In the first century BC, the fort was conquered by

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and the settlement was known as Acumincum (''acumen'', point). A Flavian fort was strategically situated for monitoring the lands beyond the Tisza river, the Legion camp ''cohors I Britannica equitata'' and ''II Adjutrix'' were based in the town.

Jupiter Dolichenus Jupiter Dolichenus was a Roman god whose mystery cult was widespread in the Roman Empire from the early-2nd to mid-3rd centuries AD. Like several other figures of the mystery cults, Jupiter Dolichenus was one of the so-called 'oriental' gods; th ...

sculptures have been found in the town.Eastern cults in Moesia Inferior and Thracia (5th century BC-4th century AD)-Margarita Tacheva-Hitova, Margarita Tacheva Roman fortifications were excavated in the site of Dugorep.

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settled in the area in the 6th century. Old Slavic graves dating from the 6th and 7th century have been found in Slankamen. During the

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, Slankamen was a fortified city and was first mentioned in 1072 as Castrum Zalankemen. Arsenije I Bogdanović from Srem, the second Serb archbishop (1233–1263), after

Saint Sava Saint Sava (, ; Old Church Slavonic: ; Glagolitic: ; ; 1169 or 1174 – 14 January 1235/6), known as the Enlightener or the Illuminator, was a Serbs, Serbian prince and Eastern Orthodox Church, Orthodox monk, abbot of Studenica Monastery, Studeni ...

was born in the village

Dabar Dabar may refer to: Places * Dabar (river), a river in the Bosanska Krajina region of Bosnia and Herzegovina * Dabar (Herzegovina), an administrative unit of the medieval principality of Zachlumia, in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina * Eparchy o ...

near Slankamen. In 1325, according to a letter by pope John XXII to the Roman Catholic archbishop of Kalocsa, a public hospital was built in the village. In the 15th century, the town was a possession of the Serbian despots

Stefan Lazarević Stefan Lazarević ( sr-Cyrl, Стефан Лазаревић, 1377 – 19 July 1427), also known as Stefan the Tall (), was a Serbian ruler as prince (1389–1402) and Despot (court title), despot (1402–1427). He was also a diplomat, legislat ...

and

Đurađ Branković Đurađ Vuković Branković ( sr-Cyrl, Ђурађ Вуковић Бранковић, ; 1377 – 24 December 1456) served as the Serbian Despot from 1427 to 1456, making him one of the final rulers of medieval Serbia. In 1429, Branković was form ...

. From 1451, it was property of Hunyadis and from 1498 of John Corvin. In year 1691 in Slankamen

battle of Slankamen The Battle of Slankamen was fought on 19 August 1691, near Stari Slankamen, Slankamen in the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Sanjak of Syrmia (modern-day Vojvodina, Serbia), between the Ottoman Empire, and Habsburg monarchy, Habsburg Austrian forces ...

took place. In the 16th century it was a residence of

Radoslav Čelnik Radoslav Čelnik ( sr-cyrl, Радослав Челник, ; 1526–1532), known as Vojvoda Rajko (), was a Serb general ('' vojvoda'') in the army of Jovan Nenad, the titular Serbian Emperor who held present-day Vojvodina, who after the death ...

, a duke of

Srem Syrmia ( Ekavian sh-Latn-Cyrl, Srem, Срем, separator=" / " or Ijekavian sh-Latn-Cyrl, Srijem, Сријем, label=none, separator=" / ") is a region of the southern Pannonian Plain, which lies between the Danube and Sava rivers. It is ...

. In 1783, the village known as

(New Slankamen) was founded near Stari Slankamen (Old Slankamen).

Population

The population of the village numbers 674 people, of whom 485 are ethnic

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(2002 census). Before the

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ethnic

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made up 38,78% of the population. *1961: 778 *1971: 756 *1981: 638 *1991: 575

Culture

The

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dedicated to Saint Nikola was, according to the legend, founded in 1468 by Serbian despot

Vuk Grgurević Vuk Grgurević Branković ( sr-cyrl, Вук Гргуревић Бранковић; c. 1439 – 16 April 1485) was a Serbian nobleman who was the titular despot of Serbia from 1471 until his death in 1485. He inherited the title of '' despot'' (a ...

Notable people

Arsenije Sremac Arsenije Sremac (, ''Arsenius the Syrmian''; 1219 – 1266) was the second Archbishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church (1233–1263) and a disciple of Saint Sava of Serbia. Early life Arsenije was born in the village of Dabar, near Slankamen ( ...

, a duke of

in the 16th century. *

Isaija Đaković Isaija Đaković or Isaija I (Grabovac, near Stari Slankamen, Habsburg monarchy, 1635 – Vienna, Habsburg Monarchy, 20 July 1708) was elected to the rank of Metropolitan of Krušedol ( Karlovci) in 1708. Isaija is best remembered as the first S ...

* Baron

Gyula Wlassics Baron Gyula Wlassics de Zalánkemén (17 March 1852 – 30 March 1937) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Religion and Education between 1895 and 1903. Description In December 1895 Wlassics passed a law that allowed women, ...

de Zalánkemén (1852–1937), a Hungarian jurist, minister and academic.

References

*Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.

External links

Stari Slankamen location map
{{Authority control Populated places in Syrmia Roman towns and cities in Serbia