Novi Sad

The ceety is locatit in the soothrern pairt o Pannonian Plain on the Danube river.

Novi Sad - Нови Сад
Ceety
Banner Coat airms
Location athin Europe an Serbie
Coordinates: 45°15′N 19°51′E / 45.250°N 19.850°E / 45.250; 19.850
Kintra	Serbie
Province	Vojvodina
Destrict	Sooth Bačka
Municipalities	2
Settled bi Scordisci	4t century B.C.
Foondit	1694 as Racki Grad (Serb Ceety)
Ceety status	1 Februar 1748 as Novi Sad
Govrenment
• Mayor	Igor Pavličić (DS) - (DS, LSV, SPS)
Area
• Novi Sad	1,105 km2 (426.5 sq mi)
Elevation	80 m (262 ft)
Population  (2011)
• Novi Sad	231,798
• Density	164.7/km2 (426.5/sq mi)
• Metro	341,625
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	21000
Area code(s)	+381(0)21
Caur plates	NS
Website	www.novisad.rs

Novi Sad is the seicont lairgest ceety in Serbie, efter Belgrade. Accordin tae the 2011 census^[update], the ceety haes a population o 250,439, while the urban aurie o Novi Sad (wi the adjacent urban settlements o Petrovaradin an Sremska Kamenica) haes 277,522 indwallers. The population o the admeenistrative aurie o the ceety staunds at 341,625 fowk. It is locatit on the border o the Bačka an Srem regions, on the banks o the Danube river an Danube-Tisa-Danube Canal, facin the northren slopes o Fruška Gora moontain.

The ceety wis foondit in 1694, when Serb merchants formed a colony athort the Danube frae the Petrovaradin fortress, a Habsburg strategic military post. In the 18t an 19t centuries, it became an important merchant an manufacturin centre, as well as a centre o Serbie cultur o that period, earnin the nickname Serbie Athens. The ceety wis hivily devastatit in the 1848 Revolution, but it wis subsequently restored. During the ceety's lang history, it haes maintained its multi-cultural identity, wi Serbs, Hungarians an Germans bein the main ethnic groups. The day, Novi Sad is an industrial an financial centre o the Serbian economy, as well as a major cultural hub.

Novi Sad haes relationships wi several twin touns. Ane o the main streets in its ceety centre is named efter Modena in Italy; an likwise Modena haes named a pairk in its toun centre Parco di Piazza d'Armi Novi Sad. The Novi Sad Friendship Brig in Norwich, Unitit Kinrick, bi Buro Happold, wis an aa named in honour o Novi Sad. Besides twin ceeties, Novi Sad haes mony signed greements on joint cooperation wi mony European ceeties (see an aa: Twin ceeties o Novi Sad). Novi Sad's twin touns are:

•   Banja Luka, Bosnie an Herzegovinae
•   Budva, Montenegro
•   Dortmund, Germany
•   Ilioupoli, Greece
•   Modena, Italy
•   Irkutsk, Roushie
•   Nizhny Novgorod, Roushie
•   Norwich, Unitit Kinrick
•   Changchun, Cheenae
•   Pécs, Hungary
•   Timişoara, Romanie