Columbia Encyclopedia entry: Subotica
Suboticasoo′bô'tĭtsä, Ger. Maria Theresiopel or Theresiopel, Hung. Szabadka, city (1991 pop. 100,386), N Serbia, in the Vojvodina region. An important railway junction and an industrial center, it has factories that produce metal goods, fertilizer, furniture, and agricultural machinery. Originally a Roman outpost, Subotica became a royal free city of Hungary until its transfer by the Treaty of Trianon (1920) to the former Yugoslavia. It became part of Yugoslavia's constituent republic of Serbia following World War II.
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Subotica is a city and municipality in northern Serbia, in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. It is located at 46.07° North, 19.68° East, about 10 km from the border with Hungary.
Once the second largest town in Hungary and became also the second largest town in Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the Treaty of Trianon. Contemporary Subotica is the second largest town of the Vojvodina region following Novi Sad and the fifth largest in Serbia after Belgrade, Novi Sad, Niš, Kragujevac. Among the most multiethnic cities in Serbia with a relative Hungarian majority, the city's population numbers 99,981. Likewise, today it is Serbia's fifth...more »
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Vojvodina or Voivodina, province (1991 pop. 2,013,889), 8,301 sq mi (21,500 sq km), N Serbia. Novi Sad is the chief city. A part of the Pannonian Plain, it is watered by the Danube, the Tisza,...
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Serbia, Serbian Srbija, officially Republic of Serbia, republic (1995 est. pop. 10,394,000), 34,116 sq mi (88,361 sq km), W central Balkan Peninsula; formerly the chief constituent republic of...
