Sremska Mitrovica

Sremska Mitrovica (Serbian Cyrillic - Сремска Митровица; German outdated Syrmisch - Mitrowitz or Mitrowitz, Croatian Srijemska Mitrovica, Hungarian Szávaszentdemeter ) is a Serbian town in Vojvodina, on the northern bank of the Sava River, lying on the settlement area of ​​the ancient Byzantine city of Sirmium.

Today Sremska Mitrovica has about 39,000 inhabitants and has its regional paper mill, with its harbor shipyard, as well as one of the largest prisons in Serbia importance.

Sremska Mitrovica Sremska Mitrovica is the capital of Opština and Okrug Srems.

Climate

History

Roman Emperor

Ten Roman emperors were born in the city and surrounding areas:

The last emperor of a united empire, Theodosius I ( 378-95 ) was crowned in Sirmium. The Roman usurpers Ingenuus and Regalianus declared in the city (260 ) emperors and many other Roman rulers spent some time in Sirmium including Marcus Aurelius.

Ancient Sirmium

  • See Sirmium

The ancient period ends with the conquest Sirmiums by the Avars 582 and is also an important turning point of the history of South-Eastern Europe, as was done with the Avars, the Slavic annexation.

Middle Ages

In the Middle Ages the city was a long time between Byzantium and Hungary fought. Had Methodius of Thessaloniki in the 9th century his seat as Archbishop of Pannonia and Great Moravia in Sirmium / Sremska Mitrovica. Around 1180 Sremska Mitrovica is finally under Hungarian rule. The common medieval name of the town was Civitas Sancti Demetrii, the city of St. Demetrius, which still exists in the Hungarian Szávaszentdemeter today. In the 13th century Serbs are first mentioned in writing, Hungarian Franciscan report of schismatics and their Serbian Patriarch, which are found in the city and in the southern Srem. From the city of St.. Demetrius became the Serbian term Dimitrovica and ultimately Mitrovica. The prefix Sremska dates from the 1930s to distinguish the city of Kosovska Mitrovica.

1526 assault on the city by the Ottomans. During the Ottoman rule the town seer Mitrovica and Dimitrofçe said. Under the Ottomans, the city had a Muslim majority.

Empire of Austria

1688 Sremska Mitrovica has been conquered to German Mitrowitz, the Empire of Austria during the Turkish wars. Definitively under Austrian rule, the city became in 1718 with the Peace of Passaro joke. After the Peace of Belgrade 1739 Sremska Mitrovica was a frontier town of the Ottoman empire, was annexed as such the Military Frontier and belonged to the Petrovaradin regiment. 1848/1850-1860 it was part of the Woiwodenschaft Serbia, then returned the ratios of back before 1848. 1881, the Military Frontier was abolished and the city, Croatia - Slavonia affiliated together with the southern Srem, which belonged to the Petrovaradin regiment. In contrast, Sremska Mitrovica was given the status of a free royal town in order to meet the Serbian and German population, which did not welcome the dissolution of the military frontier. In 1918 Sremska Mitrovica after the end of the First World War and the disintegration of Austria - Hungary to the newly formed South Slavic State, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

20th century

From 1918 Sremska Mitrovica was part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes that should rename it to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929. The city was in 1929 part of the Danube Banovina, one of Banats newly formed Yugoslavia. After the attack of the German Empire to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the capitulation of Yugoslavia in 1941, the Danube Banovina was dissolved. Sremska Mitrovica was the fascist Croatia slammed and renamed Hrvatska Mitrovica. The town was liberated on 1 November 1944 by Yugoslav and Soviet troops. 1945, the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina was formed within the Republic of Serbia, Sremska Mitrovica was part of Vojvodina.

Demographic development of the city

After the Ottoman registers Sremska Mitrovica had for the years 1566-1569 592 Muslim and 30 Christian households. For the year 1572 there were 598 Muslim and 18 Christian households.

In the Empire, Austria 1756 809 inhabitants are counted in the year, of which 514 and 219 Orthodox Roman Catholic faith. The census of 1910 gives the city a population of 12,909 inhabitants, of which 4878 Serbs, Croats, and 3915 2341 German.

According to the census in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1931 the city had 18,839 inhabitants, of whom 10,429 with Serbo-Croatian, German, and 1753 with 945 with Hungarian mother language. 632 spoke some other Slavic language. According to the census in Communist Yugoslavia from 1948 lived in the city after the exodus of Germans and Others Yugoslavia 6777 Serbs, Croats 3933, 864 Ruthenians and Ukrainians and 835 Hungary. For the year 1991 there is a population of 38 834 inhabitants, of which 26 943 Serbs, Yugoslavs 4836, 3162 Croats, Ruthenians 732 and 617, Hungary.

The latest official census, conducted in 2002, resulting in a population of 39 084 inhabitants, of which 31 127 Serbs, 2,130 Croats, 961 Yugoslavs, 620 and 524 Ruthenians Hungary.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Joseph Anton Franz Tall tree van der Meer (1718-1795), Swiss historian
  • Hilarion Ruvarac (1832-1905), Serbian historian
  • Robert Frangeš Mihanović (1872-1940), Croatian sculptor
  • Mara SVEL - Gamiršek (1900-1975), a Croatian writer
  • Dragana Tomasevic (* 1982 ), Serbian athlete
  • Branislav Ivanović ( born 1984 ), Serbian football player
  • Tatjana Jelača (* 1990), Serbian athlete

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