Slana Bara
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Novi Sad
Novi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain on the Danube river....
in Serbia
Serbia
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.
Name
Its name in the Serbian languageSerbian language
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means "the salty bog". The name refer to the large bog that existed in this area in the past, and whose remains are still visible.
History
A large Slavic village named Bivalo (Bivaljoš) existed at this location in the past. Name of the village came from the SlavicSlavic languages
The Slavic languages , a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia.-Branches:Scholars traditionally divide Slavic...
word "bivalo" meaning "buffalo" in English
English language
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. The village is mentioned first in 1237, but archeological research showed that it dates from the 5th-6th century.
In the 16th century, the village was destroyed and later Ottoman
Ottoman Empire
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defters mention Bivaljoš as heath that was inhabited by people, but not in the form of the settlement. In 1554, the Ottoman defter recorded that Bivaljoš have one house that paid taxes. In 1570, there were no recorded houses that paid taxes in Bivaljoš. However, since Ottoman defters did not recorded houses that were liberated from paying taxes, these records do not show correct number of inhabitants of the area. Bivaljoš was last time mentioned in 1701 as heath that was used for cattle pasture.
New settlement in the territory of present-day Slana Bara was founded in the last decade of the 19th century by the Romanian
Romanian language
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-speaking ethnic Roma. This settlement had about 1,000 inhabitants. In the beginning of the 20th century, Serbs
Serbs
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and others also started to settle in the area. In 1921, the Novi Sad
Novi Sad
Novi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain on the Danube river....
city authorities adopted decision to gave house lots on Slana Bara to poor families for house construction. The important event for the further development of the settlement was the construction of the international road in 1936-38.
Borders
The southern border of Slana Bara is Primorska ulica (Primorska Street), the eastern border is Temerinski put (Temerin Road), the northern border is Zelengorska ulica (Zelengorska Street), and the western border is Sentandrejski put (Sentandreja Road).Neighbouring city quarters
The neighbouring city quarters are: Mali BeogradMali Beograd
Mali Beograd can refer to:* Mali Beograd, Bačka Topola, a village in the Bačka Topola municipality, Serbia.* Mali Beograd, Novi Sad, an urban neighbourhood of Novi Sad, Serbia....
and Veliki Rit
Veliki Rit, Novi Sad
Veliki Rit is a neighborhood of the city of Novi Sad in the Serbian province of Vojvodina.-Location:Veliki Rit is located in the northern part of Novi Sad between Klisa and Slana Bara in the west, Mišin Salaš and Mali Beograd in the south, Deponija in the north, and Radna Zona Sever 4 in the...
in the east, Klisa in the north and west, and Vidovdansko Naselje
Vidovdansko Naselje
Vidovdansko Naselje is a neighborhood of the city of Novi Sad in Serbia.-Name:Name of the neighborhood derived from Saint Vitus - Serbian word "vidovdan" means "the day of Saint Vitus", thus the English translation of the settlement's name would be "the Saint Vitus day's settlement"...
in the south.