Sremska Kamenica
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| Сремска Каменица Sremska Kamenica |
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| Subdivision: | Vojvodina Vojvodina Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad... , South Bačka District South Backa District South Bačka District is a northern district of Serbia. It lies in the southern part of Bačka and northern part of Syrmia, in the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It has a population of 607,835... , City of 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.... , Petrovaradin urban municipality Petrovaradin Petrovaradin , is part of the agglomeration of Novi Sad in Serbia... |
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45.222°N 19.844°E | |
| Population Population A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals... : 2002 |
11,205 |
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| License plates: | NS Serbian car license plates Serbian vehicle license plate codes consist of a two-letter region code, followed by 3-digit numeric and a 2-letter alpha license code, separated by a hyphen Serbian vehicle license plate codes consist of a two-letter region code, followed by 3-digit numeric and a 2-letter alpha license code,... |
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Sremska Kamenica (Cyrillic: Сремска Каменица, sreɛ̂ːmskaː kâmenit͡sa) is a town and urban neighborhood of 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....
, in Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
.
Name
In SerbianSerbian language
Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....
, the town is known as Sremska Kamenica (Сремска Каменица), in Croatian
Croatian language
Croatian is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries...
as Srijemska Kamenica, in Hungarian
Hungarian language
Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....
as Kamanc, and in German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
as Kamenitz.
Geography
The town is located in the SyrmiaSyrmia
Syrmia is a fertile region of the Pannonian Plain in Europe, between the Danube and Sava rivers. It is divided between Serbia in the east and Croatia in the west....
region, on the northern slopes of the Fruška Gora
Fruška Gora
Fruška Gora is a mountain in north Syrmia. Most part of the territory is located within Vojvodina, Serbia, but a smaller part on its western side overlaps the territory of Croatia...
mountain range and on the river Danube
Danube
The Danube is a river in the Central Europe and the Europe's second longest river after the Volga. It is classified as an international waterway....
. The Freedom Bridge
Freedom Bridge
Coordinates:...
crosses the River Danube and connects the town with the main part of Novi Sad. Sremska Kamenica and the villages Bukovac
Bukovac
Bukovac is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Petrovaradin urban municipality , in the Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population is 3,595 .-The name:The name Bukovac is thought to be derived from the word for a tree - 'bukva'...
, Ledinci
Ledinci
Ledinci , also known as Novi Ledinci , is a village located in the Petrovaradin municipality, one of two municipalities of Novi Sad City, in Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina...
and Stari Ledinci
Stari Ledinci
Stari Ledinci , also known simply as Ledinci , is a village located in the Petrovaradin municipality, one of two municipalities of Novi Sad City in Serbia, in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The population of Stari Ledinci numbered 823 people in the 2002 census...
, are all part of Petrovaradin
Petrovaradin
Petrovaradin , is part of the agglomeration of Novi Sad in Serbia...
urban municipality.
The town is divided into a couple of neighborhoods: Donja Kamenica
Donja Kamenica
Donja Kamenica is a village in the municipality of Knjaževac, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 360 people.-References:...
(Lower Kamenica), Gornja Kamenica
Gornja Kamenica
Gornja Kamenica is a village in the municipality of Knjaževac, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 377 people.-References:...
(Upper Kamenica), Bocke
Bocke
Bocke is a neighborhood of the city of Novi Sad in Serbia.-Geography:Bocke is the westernmost part of Sremska Kamenica, located along the main road that connects Sremska Kamenica with Beočin...
, Tatarsko Brdo, Čardak, and Staroiriški Put.
The settlements of Paragovo
Paragovo
Paragovo 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 entrance of Sremska Kamenica, from Ruma and Fruška Gora...
, Popovica
Popovica
Popovica is a small neighborhood of Sremska Kamenica, Serbia. It is located on the edge of the urban area of Novi Sad and National Park of Fruška Gora. Popovica is connected to Sremska Kamenica and Novi Sad by public bus No.74.-See Also:...
, Glavica
Glavica, Sremska Kamenica
Glavica is one of the neighborhoods of Sremska Kamenica, in Serbia. Glavica is more a retreat community than a neighborhood....
, and Artinjeva (Artiljevo) are also administratively parts of Sremska Kamenica. These settlements are a weekend retreat for people from Novi Sad into the countryside, because of their location on the edge of Fruška Gora National Park
Fruška Gora
Fruška Gora is a mountain in north Syrmia. Most part of the territory is located within Vojvodina, Serbia, but a smaller part on its western side overlaps the territory of Croatia...
.
Population
According to the last official census (2002), the population of Sremska Kamenica numbered 11,205 inhabitants, of whom 8,806 were ethnic SerbsSerbs
The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...
. Other ethnic groups include Croats
Croats
Croats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have...
(561), Yugoslavs
Yugoslavs
Yugoslavs is a national designation used by a minority of South Slavs across the countries of the former Yugoslavia and in the diaspora...
(358), Hungarians (256), Montenegrins (141), Slovaks
Slovaks
The Slovaks, Slovak people, or Slovakians are a West Slavic people that primarily inhabit Slovakia and speak the Slovak language, which is closely related to the Czech language.Most Slovaks today live within the borders of the independent Slovakia...
(102), and others. The population of the town also includes Serbs from Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
and Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...
, who came here during the 1990s, escaping the wars in these two countries.
According to an unofficial estimate from 2005, the population of the town numbered 11,234 people.
Historical population:
- 1961: 3,646
- 1971: 5,051
- 1981: 7,532
- 1991: 7,955
History
Sremska Kamenica was first mentioned in historical documents in 1237. In this time the town belonged to the Kingdom of HungaryKingdom of Hungary
The Kingdom of Hungary comprised present-day Hungary, Slovakia and Croatia , Transylvania , Carpatho Ruthenia , Vojvodina , Burgenland , and other smaller territories surrounding present-day Hungary's borders...
, although its name has a Slavic
Slavic 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...
origin. At that time the city was inhabited by Hungarians. Even the first Hungarian (hussitic) bible was written in Kamanc between 1420-30. The name of the town derives from the Slavic word "kamen" ("stone" in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
) and was recorded as "villa Camanch" in 1237 and "Kamenez" in 1349.
Before the Ottoman
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...
conquest in the 16th century, the town had about 150 houses with mainly Hungarians living there, but while during the Ottoman rule, in 1567, the Hungarians were killed and driven away so the population of the town numbered only 15 houses. The inhabitants of the town during Ottoman rule were Serbs
Serbs
The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...
.
After the establishment of the Habsburg
Habsburg Monarchy
The Habsburg Monarchy covered the territories ruled by the junior Austrian branch of the House of Habsburg , and then by the successor House of Habsburg-Lorraine , between 1526 and 1867/1918. The Imperial capital was Vienna, except from 1583 to 1611, when it was moved to Prague...
rule, the Habsburg census from 1702 recorded 40 houses in the town, almost all of them populated by ethnic Serbs. During the 18th century, the number of Orthodox inhabitants increased to 1,000. During the Habsburg rule, the town was a possession of the Marcibanji and Karačonji families.
In 1918, the town became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later renamed Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
).
Important institutions, buildings and tourist destinations
In Upper Kamenica, a small forest houses the Sremska Kamenica InstituteSremska Kamenica Institute
Sremska Kamenica Institute is one of the most modern and well known institutes and hospitals in Serbia and in former Yugoslavia; located in Sremska Kamenica, one of the neighborhoods of Novi Sad - the capital of the Serbian province of Vojvodina....
, which is the most important and well known institute for cardiology, oncology, and pneumonic diseases in Serbia. There is also a police academy
Police academy
A police academy is a training school for new police recruits, also known as a law enforcement academy.-Australia:Larger police departments usually run their own academies. States often run a centralised academy for training of personnel of law enforcement agencies within the state.Police...
in Upper Kamenica; which until 2006 was the only secondary police school in Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
.
In Lower Kamenica, there is a town square and the house of Jovan Jovanović Zmaj
Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj
Jovan Jovanović Zmaj was one of the best-known Serbian poets. He was a physician by profession, like his literary predecessor writer Jovan Stejić ....
, now a museum dedicated to his memory. There are also Serbian Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches from the 18th century. Next to the Danube
Danube
The Danube is a river in the Central Europe and the Europe's second longest river after the Volga. It is classified as an international waterway....
river is Kamenica Park with Castle of the Count Karačonji from the 17th century and SOS Dečije Selo (an orphanage).
The seat of the Fruška Gora National Park is situated in Sremska Kamenica, and there is also a business faculty known as FABUS in the town.
Famous people
- Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (1839–1904), one of the most well known Serb poets, lived and died in Sremska Kamenica.
- Novak RadonićNovak RadonicNovak Radonić was a famous 19th century Romantic Serbian painter.-External links:*...
(1826–1880), a well known Serbian romantic painter, was born in MolMol, SerbiaMol is a town located in the Ada municipality, in the North Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina...
, and lived and died in Sremska Kamenica.
External links
- Information about Sremska Kamenica (in Serbian and English)
- The website of moto club Otpisani in Sremska Kamenica
- Srem Classified Ads