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Karate. Canoe. Fudbalski klub Vojvodina ( Serbian Cyrillic: Фудбалски клуб Војводина ), commonly known as Vojvodina and colloquially as Voša ( Serbian Cyrillic: Воша ), is a Serbian professional football club based in Novi Sad, Serbia, the second largest city in Serbia, and one of the most popular clubs in the country.
In 1687, the northern parts of the region were settled by ethnic Bunjevci . During the Kuruc War (1703–11) of Francis II Rakoczi, the territory of present-day Vojvodina was a battlefield between Hungarian rebels and local Serbs who fought on the side of the Habsburg Emperor. Serbs in Bačka suffered the greatest losses.
Vojvodina is situated in the northern quarter of Serbia, in Central Europe. In the southeast part of the Pannonian Plain, the plain that remained when the Pliocene Pannonian Sea dried out. As a consequence of this, Vojvodina is rich in fertile loamy loess soil, covered with a layer of chernozem.
Rusyns in modern states of Serbia and Croatia mostly live in the autonomous province of Vojvodina (Serbia), and in the region of Slavonia (Croatia). The census from 1991 in those regions (then within former Yugoslavia) shows about 25.000 Rusyns. Currently, the number of Rusyns declines and is estimated to be about 15.000.
During the Austrian rule many non-Serbs also settled in the territory of present-day Vojvodina. They were mainly ( Catholic) Germans and Hungarians, but also Ruthenians, Slovaks, Czechs , Poles, Romanians, and others. Because of this immigration, Vojvodina became one of the most ethnically diverse regions of Europe.
Autonomy. The Autonomous Province of Vojvodina was established in October 1944 and its political status was regulated on September 1, 1945, as an autonomous entity within Serbia, although it had several political predecessors such as Serbian Vojvodina (1848–1849), Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar (1849–1860), Banat, Bačka and Baranja (1918-1919), and Danube Banovina (1929 ...
Historical overview. It is unknown which languages were spoken in the territory of present-day Vojvodina in paleolithic and neolithic times. First speakers of Indo-European languages arrived here in 4200 BC and since the first written traces about this region appeared, there are records about speakers of various Indo-European languages that lived in this area, including speakers of Thracian ...
Serbian patriarch Josif Rajačić is giving a blessing to the army of Serbian Vojvodina in 1848. The Serbian Vojvodina (Serbian: Српска Војводина, romanized: Srpska Vojvodina) was a short-lived self-proclaimed Serb autonomous province within the Austrian Empire during the Revolutions of 1848, which existed until 1849 when it was transformed into the new (official) Austrian ...