amily:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">According to the 1843 data, Sombor had 21,086 inhabitants,
of whom 11,897 were Orthodox Christians, 9,082 Roman Catholics, 56 Jewish, and
51 Protestants. The main language spoken in the city at this time was Serbian,
and the second largest language was German. In 1848/1849, Sombor was part of
the Serbian Vojvodina, a Serb autonomous region within Austrian
Empire, while between 1849 and 1860, it was part of the Voivodship of
Serbia and Tamiš Banat, a separate Austrian crown land. Sombor was a seat of
the district within voivodship. After the abolishment of this crown land,
Sombor again became the seat of the Bacsensis-Bodrogiensis (Bács-Bodrog,
Bačka-Bodrog) County.
According to the 1910 census, the population of Sombor was
30,593 people, of whom 11,881 spoke the Serbian language, 10,078 spoke the Hungarian
language, 6,289 spoke the Bunjevac language, 2,181 spoke the German
language.
In 1918, Sombor became part of the Kingdom of Serbs,
Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia).
Between 1918 and 1922 it was part of Bačka County, between 1922 and 1929 part
of Bačka oblast, and between 1929 and 1941 part of Danube Banovina.
