List of capital cities in the history of Vojvodina

This is a list of historical Capitals of Vojvodina, as well as a list of historical capitals of former states and provinces situated in the territory of present-day Vojvodina:

Antiquity

  • Sirmium (present-day Sremska Mitrovica) – One of the four capital cities of Roman Empire (293 AD), capital of Pannonia Inferior (103 AD), capital of Pannonia Secunda (296 AD), capital of Diocese of Pannonia (4th century), capital of Praetorian prefecture of Illyricum (4th century).

Middle Ages

  • Sirmium (present-day Sremska Mitrovica) – capital of Byzantine Pannonia (6th century); residence of Sermon, duke of Syrmia (11th century); capital of Theme Sirmium (11th century).
  • Titel – Residence of Bulgarian duke Salan (9th century).
  • Debrc and Belgrade – Residences of Stefan Dragutin, king of Syrmia (1282-1316).
  • Kupinik (today Kupinovo) – Residence of Serbian despots (15th and 16th centuries).

16th-19th centuries

  • Subotica – Residence of Emperor Jovan Nenad (1526-1527). Emperor Jovan Nenad later moved his residence to Segedin.
  • Slankamen – Residence of Radoslav Čelnik, duke of Syrmia (1527-1530). Radoslav Čelnik later moved his residence to Nebojc.
  • Temeşvar / Temeschwar (Timişoara) – Capital of the Ottoman Province of Temeşvar (1552-1716), capital of the Habsburg Banat of Temeswar (1718-1778), capital of the Austrian crown land - Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar (1849-1860).
  • Dimitrofça (present-day Sremska Mitrovica) – capital of the Ottoman Sanjak of Syrmia (16th-17th century).
  • Sremski Karlovci - Capital of the Serbian Voivodship (1848). The capital of Serbian Voivodship was later moved to Zemun, Veliki Bečkerek, and Temišvar (Timişoara).
  • Sombor - administrative center of Batsch-Bodrog / Bács-Bodrog County (18th century–1918).
  • Veliki Bečkerek - administrative center of Torontal / Torontál County (18th century-1918).

After 1918

  • Temeschwar (Timişoara) – capital of the independent Banat Republic (1918).
  • Novi Sad – Capital of Banat, Bačka and Baranja (1918-1919) as well as county administrative center (1918-1922), capital of the Bačka Oblast (1922-1929), capital of the Yugoslav Danube Banovina (1929-1941), capital of Yugoslav and Serbian autonomous province of Vojvodina (since 1944). Note: in 1941, capital of Danube Banovina was moved to Smederevo.
  • Veliki Bečkerek – county administrative center (1918-1922); capital of Banat region within Axis puppet state of Serbia (1941-1944).

See also

  • Capitals of Serbia

See Also

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