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History of Novi Sad


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ian houses. The settlement officially gained the present name Novi Sad (Neoplanta in Latin) in 1748 when it became a "free royal city".

The edict that made Novi Sad a "free royal city" was proclaimed on 1 February 1748. The edict reads:

We, Maria Theresa, by the grace of God Holy Roman Empress,

Queen of Hungary, Bohemia, Moravia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Rama, Serbia, Galicia, Lodomeria, Carinthia, [...]

cast this proclamation to anyone, whom it might concern...so that the renowned PetrovaradinskiŠanac, which lies on the other side of the Danube in the Bačka province on the Sajlovo land, by the might of our divine royal power

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