Subotica (Serbian: Суботица, Subotica, listen (help·info), Hungarian: Szabadka) 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 city in Serbia (1919), contemporary Subotica is the second largest city of the Vojvodina region following Novi Sad. Among the most multiethnic cities in Serbia with a relat...
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Subotica (Serbian: Суботица, Subotica, listen (help·info), Hungarian: Szabadka) 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 city in Serbia (1919), contemporary Subotica is the second largest city of the Vojvodina region following Novi Sad. Among the most multiethnic cities in Serbia with a relative Hungarian majority, the city's population numbers 99,981 (according to the 2002 census). Likewise, today it is Serbia's fifth largest city, with the municipality of Subotica numbering 148,401 people. It is the administrative centre of the North Bačka District.
There have been almost two hundred different forms of the name Subotica in history. This is because the city has welcomed so many different peoples since the Middle Ages. They all wrote about it, naming it in their own languages, which, for the most part, did not fix their spelling...
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