A blue engraved postage stamp shows Petrovaradin fortress on its hill above the Danube, with a lattice truss bridge spanning the river and a paddle steamer trailing smoke beneath it. The stamp is inscribed twice, in Cyrillic across the top and in Latin script along the bottom, both reading Dunavska Banovina, the interwar administrative unit that included Novi Sad. Denomination numerals of 1 appear in each corner.
About this place
A Habsburg star fortress on the right bank of the Danube, built between 1692 and 1780 on a site fortified since antiquity: the Romans held Cusum here, a medieval fortress followed, and Cistercian monks kept a monastery on the hill in the 13th century. Beneath its walls Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated a far larger Ottoman army on 5 August 1716. Nicknamed the Gibraltar on the Danube, the fortress conceals some 16 kilometres of underground counter-mine galleries dug in 1764-1776. On its clock tower the hands are reversed, the long hand showing the hours so that fishermen on the Danube could read the time from a distance. The fortress still stands over the river and houses the City Museum of Novi Sad.
On the card
ДУНАВСКА БАНОВИНА / DUNAVSKA BANOVINA / 1 / Д / D
Danube Banovina. Value 1 dinar, the denomination given in both scripts in the corners.
- Date
- 1930s
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 750 × 541 px
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