1896–1918Petrovaradin
Jelačić Street, Petrovaradin, a Uniformed Figure at the Corner
A uniformed figure in a tall cap stands at the street corner as a group of men in dark tunics make their way down Jelacic ulica, past shuttered shopfronts toward the vanishing point of the street. The trilingual German, Croatian and Hungarian caption, with no Cyrillic, and the Jelacic street name tied to the Austro-Hungarian period match the pattern of other cards of this street in the batch.
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.
On the card
Pétervárad vár Festung Peterwardein – Grad Petrovaradin; Jelacic Gasse – Gelaciceva ulica
- Date
- 1896–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2758 × 1825 px
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