Sremski Karlovci

Sremski Karlovci , in Serb Cyrillic СремскиКарловци, in German Karlowitz or Carlowitz, in Croatian Srijemski Karlovci, Hungarian Turkish Karlóca and Karlofça, is a city and a municipality of Serbia located in the autonomous province of Voïvodine, on Right Bank of the the Danube, at 5km of Novi Sad. Although located in Syrmie, Sremski Karlovci belongs to the district of Bačka Southerner. In 2002, it counted 8.839 inhabitants.

History

In Antiquity, there existed with the site of the current city a small Roman fortress .

The city is mentioned for the first time in 1308 under the name of Karom, a fortress built on the vestiges of the Roman installation. Until 1521, Karom belonged to the Royaume of Hungary, pertaining to the noble families Báthory and Morović.

The Othoman chief Bali-beg conquered it in 1521 and it remained with the hands of the Sublime Door during 170 years.

The Slavic name of the city, Karlovci, is mentioned for the first in 1532 - 1533. For the Othoman period, the city was mainly populated of Serbes, with a small Turkish minority. In 1545, Karlovci counted 547 hearths Chrétiens (Serb). The city had three orthodoxe churches and a monastery.

November 16th 1698 with the January 26th 1699, was held in Karlovci a congress which put an end to the hostilities between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League, a coalition of various European people including/understanding the Empire of Austria, the Poland, the République of Venice and the Russia; at the conclusion of this congress the feature was signed which bears the name of Traité of Karlowitz. Under the treaty, the city entered the field of the Habsbourgs and it was integrated in the military Frontière.

In 1753, the city counted 3.843 inhabitants, including 3.110 Serbes. Sit of the éparchie of Karlovci, the city obtained a Serb school and, in 1791, a College opened its doors. In 1794, was also created a Séminaire orthodoxe, oldest of the world after that of Kiev; it is still in aujour' activity today.

The Serbes of the area joined together an assembly with Karlovci in 1848; one declared there the unification of the Syrmie, of the Banat, the Bačka and the Baranja (by including parts of the military Frontière there); all these areas formed the Serb Voïvodine. The first capital was Karlovci, then it was moved with Zemun, with Veliki Bečkerek then with Temišvar.

Into 1949, Serb Voïvodine was transformed into a new province called the Voïvodine of Serbia and Banat de Tamiš. Karlovci was not included in this province but was reinstated in the military Frontière. In 1881, after the removal of the Border, the city belonged to the Royaume of Croatia-Slovenia, autonomous within the Austria-Hungary.

In 1918, the city belonged to the Royaume of Serb, the Croats and the Sloveniens. In 1920, it became the general headquarter of the white Russians led by Piotr Nicolaïevitch Wrangel. It was also the seat of the Saint Synod of the Russian orthodoxe Église apart from Russia.

Between 1929 and 1941, the city belonged to the Danubian Banovina, a province of the Royaume of Yugoslavia. During the Second world war, the city was occupied by the troops of the Axe and was attached at the State independent of Croatia. During this period, Karlovci was called Hrvatski Karlovci. After the war, the city belonged to the autonomous province of Voïvodine, within the socialist Federal republic of Yugoslavia.

Between 1980 and 1989, Sremski Karlovci was one of the seven municipalities composing Novi Sad. But it is today an administrative unit with whole share.

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Official site of the municipality of Sremski Karlovci
Sremski Karlovci

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