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Novi
Sad (Serbian: Novi Sad; Slovak: Nový Sad; Hungarian:
Újvidék; Croatian: Novi Sad; Romanian: Novi
Sad; German: Neusatz; Latin: Neoplanta) is a city in northern
Serbia, located at 45.25° N, 19.85° E, on the
banks of the Danube river. It is the capital of the Vojvodina
province and a large industrial and cultural center. Its
name means "New Planting" (noun) in Serbian.
The city's population was 215,659 in 2002 and 298,139
with the surrounding inhabited places of the municipality
included. An unofficial estimate of the current city population
is approximately 240,000-250,000. The city of Novi Sad
comprises Novi Sad proper and the settlements of Petrovaradin
and Sremska Kamenica. The metropolitan area of Novi Sad
also comprises Futog, Veternik, Bukovac and Ledinci. There
are also several other settlements in Novi Sad municipality,
but these settlements are physically separated from the
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Novi
Sad is the second-largest city in Serbia-Montenegro (after
Belgrade) and the administrative center of the South Backa
District of Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the
population of Novi Sad is composed of Serbs (75,50%),
Hungarians (5,24%), Yugoslavs (3,17%), Slovaks (2,41%),
Croats (2,09%), Montenegrins (1,68%) and others. Human
settlement in the territory of present-day Novi Sad has
been traced as far back as the Stone Age (about 4500 BC).
This settlement was located on the right side of the river
Danube in the territory of present day Petrovaradin. |
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