"N o v i S a d - najlepsi grad :-)" a Novi Sad Travel Page by Nina.M.

Novi Sad is Serbia's second largest city, after Belgrade.

Novi Sad is located in the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, with land area of 699 km², while on the city's official site, land area is 702 km²; and the urban area is 129.7 km². The city lies on the river Danube and one small section of the Danube-Tisa-Danube Canal.
Novi Sad's landscape is divided into two parts, one is situated in the Backa region and another in the Syrmia region. The river Danube is a natural border between them. Backa's side of the city lies on one of the southern lowest parts of Pannonian Plain, while Fruska Gora's side is a horst mountain. Alluvial plains along Danube are well formed, especially on the left bank, in some parts 10 km from the river. A large part of Novi Sad lies on terrace deposit with an elevation of 80-83 m. The northern part of Fruska Gora is comprised of massive landslide zones, but they are not active, except in the Ribnjak neighborhood.

At the outset of Habsburg rule near the end of the 17th century, people of Orthodox faith were forbidden from residing in Petrovaradin, thus Serbs were largely unable to build homes there. Because of this, a new settlement was founded in 1694 on the left bank of the Danube. The initial name of this settlement was Serb City .The edict that made Novi Sad a "free royal city" was proclaimed on February 1, 1748.
The reformer of the Serbian language, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, wrote in 1817 that Novi Sad is the "largest Serb municipality in the world".
During the Revolution of 1848-1849, Novi Sad was part of Serbian Vojvodina, a Serbian autonomous region within the Habsburg Empire.

In 1849, the Hungarian army located on the Petrovaradin fortress bombarded and devastated the city, which lost much of its population.
After 1867, Novi Sad was located within the Hungarian part of Austria-Hungary.
On November 25, 1918, the Assembly of Serbs, Bunjevci, and other nations of Vojvodina in Novi Sad proclaimed the union of Vojvodina region with the Kingdom of Serbia.
Since December 1, 1918, Novi Sad is part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes; and in 1929, Novi Sad became the capital of the Danube Banovina, a province of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
The partisan forces from Syrmia and Bačka entered the city on October 23, 1944, and Novi Sad became part of the new socialist Yugoslavia.
Since 1945, Novi Sad has been the capital of Vojvodina, a province of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
After 1992, Novi Sad was part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which, in 2003, was transformed into the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. Since 2006, Novi Sad is part of an independent Serbia.