Sremska Kamenica

Сремска Каменица Sremska Kamenica
Center of the town
País:	Serbia
Subdivisión:	Vojvodina, South Bačka District, City of Novi Sad, Petrovaradin urban municipality
Localización:	45°13′19″N 19°50′38″E / 45.222, 19.844
Población: 2002	11,205
Indicativo telefónico:	+ 381(0)21
Código postal:	21208
Matrícula (automóviles)Matrícula:	NS

Sremska Kamenica (en serbio Сремска Каменица) es una de las principales localidades de Novi Sad, en Serbia.

Nombre

En serbio, se conoce la ciudad como Sremska Kamenica (Сремска Каменица), en croata como Srijemska Kamenica, en húngaro como Kamanc, y en alemán como Kamenitz.

Geografía

La ciudad se encuentra en la región de Syrmia, en el costado norte de la cadena montañosa de Fruška Gora y del río Danubio. The Freedom Bridge crosses the River Danube and connects the town with the main part of Novi Sad. Sremska Kamenica and the villages Bukovac, Ledinci and Stari Ledinci, are all part of Petrovaradin urban municipality.

The town is divided into a couple of neighborhoods: Donja Kamenica (Lower Kamenica), Gornja Kamenica (Upper Kamenica), Bocke, Tatarsko Brdo, Čardak, and Staroiriški Put.

The settlements of Paragovo, Popovica, Glavica, and Artinjeva (Artiljevo) are also administratively parts of Sremska Kamenica. These settlements are a weekend retreat for people from Novi Sad into the countryside, because of their location on the edge of Fruška Gora National Park.

Población

Mapa del área urbana de Novi Sad con la ubicación de Sremska Kamenica.

Seg+une el censo oficial de 2002, la población de Sremska Kamenica era de 11.205 inhabitants, de los cuales 8.806 serbios. Otros grupos étnicos son croatas (561), yugoslavos (358), húngaros (256), montenegrinos (141), eslovacos (102), y otros. The population of the town also includes Serbs from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, who came here during the 1990s, escaping the wars in these two countries.

According to an unofficial estimate from 2005, the population of the town numbered 11,234 people.^[1]

Historical population:^[2]

• 1961: 3,646
• 1971: 5,051
• 1981: 7,532
• 1991: 7,955

Historia

En 1237 se habla por primera vez en documentos oficiales de Sremska Kamenica. En ese entonces la ciudad pertenecía al Reino de Hungría, aunque su nombre es de origen eslavo. At that time the city was inhabited by Hungarians. Even the first Hungarian (hussitic) bible was written in Kamanc between 1420-30. The name of the town derives from the Slavic word "kamen" ("stone" in English) and was recorded as "villa Camanch" in 1237 and "Kamenez" in 1349.

Before the Ottoman conquest in the 16th century, the town had about 150 houses with mainly Hungarians living there, but while during the Ottoman rule, in 1567, the Hungarians were killed and driven away so the population of the town numbered only 15 houses. The inhabitants of the town during Ottoman rule were Serbs.

After the establishment of the Habsburg rule, the Habsburg census from 1702 recorded 40 houses in the town, almost all of them populated by ethnic Serbs. During the 18th century, the number of Orthodox inhabitants increased to 1,000. During the Habsburg rule, the town was a possession of the Marcibanji and Karačonji families.

En 1918, la ciudad pasó a formar parte del Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes luego renombrado Yugoslavia.

Instituciones, lugares y edificios notables

Iglesia ortodoxa.

En Alta Kamenica, a small forest houses the Sremska Kamenica Institute, which is the most important and well known institute for cardiology, oncology, and pneumonic diseases in Serbia.^{[3] [4] [5]} There is also a police academy in Upper Kamenica; which until 2006 was the only secondary police school in Serbia.

En Baja Kamenica, there is a town square and the house of Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, now a museum dedicated to his memory. There are also Serbian Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches from the 18th century. Next to the Danube river is Kamenica Park with Castle of the Count Karačonji from the 17th century and SOS Dečije Selo (an orphanage).^[6]

The seat of the Fruška Gora National Park is situated in Sremska Kamenica, and there is also a business faculty known as FABUS in the town.^[7]

Referencias

1. ↑ 2005 city register
2. ↑ Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
3. ↑ Institute for cardiology
4. ↑ Institute for oncology
5. ↑ Institute for pneumonic diseases
6. ↑ SOS Dečije Selo
7. ↑ FABUS

Enlaces externos

• Information about Sremska Kamenica (in Serbian and English)Uso incorrecto de la plantilla enlace roto (enlace roto disponible en Internet Archive; véase el historial y la última versión).
• The website of moto club Otpisani in Sremska Kamenica
• Srem Classified Ads