Šabac

Šabac , in Serb Cyrillic Шабац, is a city and a municipality of Serbia located along the Save in the historical area of Mačva. The town of Šabac is the administrative center of the district of Mačva. In 2002, it counted: 55163 inhabitants and the municipality of which it is the center: 122893.

History

The town of Šabac goes back to the Middle Ages. A document of 1454 evokes a city called Zaslon; it belonged to the Slavic State of Serbia. Then the city fell between the hands from the Turks. In 1470, they built there a fortress which they called Bejerdelen (" who strikes in biais"). The fortress was several times conquered by the Autrichiens.

The etymology of the current name, Šabac, is dubious; it probably comes from the deformation of the name of the river Sava, the Save.

Šabac played a big role at the time of the First revolt Serb against the Turks in 1804. In 1806, Karageorges was with the head of the insurrectionists when it gained one of the first Serb victories against the Turks, with Mišar, not far from Šabac. The family of the Obrenović also marked at the city; she became the residence of Jevrem Obrenović, the brother of the prince Miloš Obrenović, who modernized the city after the Second revolt Serb against the Turks.

The city was released from the Othoman occupation in 1867. The first Serb newspaper was printed in Šabac in 1883.

The city thrived until the First World War, where it suffers important damage; its population passed from 14.000 to 7.000 inhabitants. In August 1914, the mount Cer, which is not far from Šabac was also the place of a famous victory of the Serb general Stepa Stepanović on the troops of the Empire Austro-Hungarian. It was the first victory of combined during this war.

The Yugoslav period is one boom. The chemical plant " Zorka" in Šabac in 1938 was installed.

During the Second world war, the city was occupied by the Germans and a concentration camp was open not far from the city. Approximately 5.000 citizens of Šabac were imprisoned there. Approximately 7.000 people found death there. The city was released by the Partisans in 1944.

Since the Second world war, Šabac is again an important industrial town.

Šabac saw being born Vladimir Jovanović, an economist and a Serb politician.

Localities of the municipality of Šabac

See too

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External bonds and documents

  • Official site of the town of Šabac

  • Seen satellite of Šabac
  • Šabac

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