1917Petrovaradin
Soldiers Filing Between the Southern Barracks, Petrovaradin
A hillside garrison compound seen from above, rows of soldiers filing along a road between barrack buildings roofed with corrugated sheet and thatch. Pale cloths lie spread on the grass in the foreground, and low hills rise along the horizon. An unmounted print from a 1917 military album.
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.
- Date
- 1917
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- SZTE Klebelsberg Library - Shvoy Kálmán Collection
- Credit
- SZTE Klebelsberg Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2127 × 1526 px
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