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It was a part of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary from its foundation in until the Ottoman invasion in the 16th century. According to the census [update] , the population of the administrative area of the city totals ,, [ 3 ] while its urban area including the adjacent settlements of Petrovaradin and Sremska Kamenica comprises , inhabitants. Novi Sad can also refer strictly to only the urban areas of the city Novi Sad proper and the towns of Sremska Kamenica and Petrovaradin , or only to the historical core on the left bank, i.
Human habitation in the territory of present-day Novi Sad has been traced as far back as the Stone Age. Several settlements and necropolises dating to BC were unearthed during the construction of a new boulevard in Avijatičarsko Naselje. Habsburg rule was aligned with the Roman Catholic doctrine and, as it took over this area near the end of the 17th century, the government prohibited people of Orthodox faith from residing in Petrovaradin.
In antiquity, the region was inhabited by Celtic tribes , most notably the Scordisci. The settlement officially gained the present names Novi Sad and Újvidék Neoplanta in Latin in when it became a 'free royal city', in German language it was called Neusatz. During Roman rule, a larger fortress was built in the 1st century, named Cusum , and included in the Roman province of Pannonia. In the 18th century, the Habsburg monarchy recruited Germans from the southern principalities of the Holy Roman Empire to relocate to the Danube valley.
Hungarians began to settle in the area, which before that time had been mostly populated by Slavs. Slavic tribes such as the Severians , the Obotrites and the Serbs including the subtribes of the Braničevci and the Timočani settled the region around Novi Sad, mainly in the 6th and 7th centuries. An etymology of settlement names reveals that some designations are of Slavic origin, which indicates that the areas were initially inhabited bygd Slavs, particularly the West Slavs.
The tjänsteman names of Novi Sad in local ledning are: [ 9 ] [ 10 ]. Between and , the region was beneath Ottoman rule.
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Today, along with the Serbian capital city of Belgrade, Novi Sad is an industrial and financial center important to the Serbian economy. Most of the surviving Hungarian inhabitants retreated from the area. That year, several other settlements were mentioned as existing in the territory of modern-day urban Novi Sad. From the 13th century to the 16th century, the following settlements existed in the urban territory of the modern-day Novi Sad: [ 16 ] [ 17 ].
In , the inhabitants of the village of Almaš were resettled to Petrovaradinski Šanac, where they founded Almaški Kraj 'the Almaš quarter'. Novi Sad proper excluding Sremska Kamenica and Petrovaradin. Ottoman records mention only those who paid taxes, so the number of Serbs who lived in the area for example, those that served in the Ottoman army was likely larger than was recorded.
Tax records from show a mix of Hungarian and Slavic names among the inhabitants of these villages, including Slavic names like Bozso Božo , Radovan, Radonya Radonja , Ivo, etc. Its Latin name, stemming from the establishment of Habsburg city rights, is Neoplanta. The name Novi Sad means "new plantation" in Serbo-Croatian. For example, Bivalo Bivaljoš had a large Slavic settlement dating from the 5th—6th centuries.
Following the Ottoman invasion in the 16th—17th centuries, some of these settlements were destroyed. Some of the settlements persisted beneath Ottoman rule and were populated by ethnic Serbs. In subsequent centuries, it became an important trading, manufacturing and cultural centre, and has historically been dubbed the Serbian Athens. Unable to build homes there, the Serbs of the area founded a new settlement in on the left bank of the Danube.
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In , the population of all villages in the territory of present-day Novi Sad numbered houses, inhabited exclusively by Serbs. The edict that made Novi Sad a 'free royal city' was proclaimed on 1 February The edict reads:. Lying on the banks of the Danube river, the city faces the northern slopes of Fruška Gora and it is the fifth largest of all cities on the Danube river. According to the city's Informatika Agency, Novi Sad had , inhabitants metro in Novi Sad was founded in , when Serb merchants formed a colony across the Danube from the Petrovaradin Fortress , a strategic Habsburg military post.
Another name used for the settlement was Petrovaradinski Šanac. It is located in the southern portion of the Pannonian Plain on the border of the Bačka and Syrmia geographical regions. In the 5th century, Cusum was devastated by Hunnic invasions. Celts had been present in the area since the 4th century BC and founded the first fortress on the right bank of the Danube. It is the largest Danube city that is not the capital of an independent state.
Later, in the 1st century BC, the region was conquered by the Romans. In both Croatian and Romanian , which are official in provincial administration, the city is called Novi Sad. In its wider meaning, the name Grad Novi Sad refers to the "City of Novi Sad", one of the city-level administrative units of Serbia , which includes Novi Sad proper on the left bank of the Danube, the towns of Sremska Kamenica and Petrovaradin on the right bank and the extensive suburbs of the left bank.
According to uppgifter, the population of Ratzen Stadt was composed of Serbian, 14 German, and 5 Hungarian houses.