Petrovaradin
Painted seal of the free military community of Petrovaradin
A painted roundel of the Petrovaradin arms laid out as a seal, its blue border lettered in gold SIGILLUM LIBERÆ CÆSAREO REGIÆ MILITARIS COMMUNITATIS PETROWARADIENSIS, seal of the free imperial-royal military community of Petrovaradin. The crowned, quartered shield holds the imperial eagle twice, St Peter and five birds, with an armoured arm and sabre on the centre; a knight with a club and a frontier soldier in a blue coat and red trousers support it over drums, cannon and flags. The Commons file credits the Museum of Vojvodina; when the roundel was painted is unrecorded.
About this place
The town on the right bank of the Danube facing Novi Sad, gathered around its great fortress. A Roman fortress called Cusum stood here in the 1st century, and the medieval town is first recorded as Peturwarod (Pétervárad) in 1237. The Ottomans took it after a two-week siege in 1526, and it passed definitively to the Habsburgs in the 1690s, becoming the garrison town of Peterwardein; Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated the Ottoman army beneath its walls in 1716. The Baroque lower town (Podgrađe) still stands under the fortress walls. Long administered separately from Novi Sad, Petrovaradin lost its last separate municipal status when the city statute of March 2019 merged it fully into the City of Novi Sad.
- Approximate
- 1751–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- Public online source
- Credit
- Museum of Vojvodina
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1269 × 1262 px
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