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Title ( Serbian Cyrillic Тител ) is a small town with 5894 inhabitants ( 2002) in the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina. It lies on the River Tisza, near their confluence with the Danube.

History

Under the name Titulum the place was a Roman military camp. During the 9th century the Bulgarian prince Salan ruled in Backa and chose titles to her seat, the town was first mentioned under its present name in 1077, when a monastery was founded.

In the 10th century, the area was conquered by the Hungarians, who ruled it until 1526, it fell to the Ottoman Empire. A first census of 1546 shows a population of 87 households, most of whom were Serbian. At that time ruled over the place Prince Duk Radić. Presence were an Orthodox and a Catholic church. In the 17th century there were also three mosques.

The Habsburgs were able to drive the Turks from the area and so it was in 1699 the Habsburgs, from 1750 to 1763 as part of the " military frontier ", a special protection zone on the border with the Ottoman Empire. 1848-1849 was the title of the Serbian Vojvodina, an autonomous region within the Austrian Empire. 1849-1872 it belonged again to the " military frontier " and then to Bács- Bodrog.

After the First World War title was part of the Serbian - Croatian - Slovenian Kingdom, later Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

Famous sons and daughters of the town

• Mileva Marić (1875-1948), physicist and first wife of Albert Einstein

Opština title

Title is also the seat of the homonymous district ( serb. Opština ). This covers an area of 263 km ², and had in 2002 a population of 17,050 inhabitants. It combines six localities: Vilovo, Gardinovci, locomotive, Mošorin, title and Šajkaš. In 2002, 84.9 % of residents Serbs, and 5.3% Hungary.