Sombor

Sombor , in Serb Cyrillic Sr Сомбор, in Hungarian hu Zombor, German of Zombor and Ruthène pannonien Зомбор, is a city and a municipality of Serbia located in the autonomous province of Voïvodine. Sombor is the administrative center of the district of Bačka Western. In 2002, the city counted 51.471 inhabitants and the municipality of which it is center 97.263.

Name of the city

The old Hungarian name of the city was Czoborszentmihály. The current name comes from the Czobor family, which had this area at the 14th century; it is mentioned for the first time in 1543. In the historical documents, the city appears under various names: Samobor, Sambor, Sambir, Sonbor, Sanbur, Zibor and Zombar.

History

The first mention of the town of Sombor goes up with 1340. The city belonged to the Royaume of Hungary until the 16th century, at which time it was conquered by the Ottoman Empire.

In 1687, Sombor became Austrian and it was integrated in the province of the Military Frontière. In 1745, it belonged to the county of Bačka and in 1749 it obtained the statute of " royal city libre". In 1786, the city became the capital of the county of Bačka; it counted 11.420 inhabitants then, as a majority of the Serbes.

In 1843 Sombor counted 21.086 inhabitants. The principal spoken language in the city was the Serbe and, coming in second place, the German .

In 1848 - 1849, Sombor belonged to the Serb Voïvodine, an autonomous province inside the Empire of Austria and, between 1849 and 1860, it belonged to the Duché of Serbia and Banat de Tamiš.

With the census of 1910, Sombor counted 30.593 inhabitants, 11.881 of them spoke Serbe, 10.078 spoke Hungarian, 2.181 spoke German etc

After 1918, Sombor belonged to the Royaume of Serb, the Croats and the Sloveniens (renamed Yugoslavia later).

In 1941, the city was occupied by the powers of the Axis and was annexed by the Hungary. Released in 1944, Sombor belonged to the socialist Federal republic of Yugoslavia. Since 1945, it belongs to the autonomous province of Voïvodine.

Localities of the municipality of Sombor

Ethnicities (2002)

Culture

The town of Sombor is re-elected for its architecture of XVIIIe and XIXe centuries and the richness of its cultural life (museums, art galleries, theaters, associations etc).

The Monastère of Sombor was founded in 1928 - 1933.

Media

Newspaper

Somborske novine

Local televisions

  • K-54
  • Spektar

Local radios

  • Fortuna (93.9)
  • Fortuna folk (95.8)
  • Planet (94.7)
  • Sombor (90.9)
  • Sombor 2 (97.5)
  • Sonnet (100.8)
  • Spektar (101.3)

References

Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine , Novi Sad, 1996.

External bonds

  • Official site of the municipality of Sombor
  • www.soinfo.org
  • Photographs of Sombor

Internal bonds

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