Novi Kneževac

Novi Kneževac (Serbian Cyrillic: Нови Кнежевац, pronounced [nɔ̂ʋiː knɛ̌ːʒɛʋats]) is a town and municipality in the North Banat District of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a population of 6,960, while the Novi Kneževac municipality has 11,269 inhabitants (2011 census).

Name

The Serbian name of the town originates in the Serbian word "knez" ("prince" in English), and the full meaning of the name is "the prince's new place" in English.

The city's name in various languages include Serbian: Novi Kneževac or Нови Кнежевац, Hungarian: Törökkanizsa (pronounced [ˈtørøkːɒniʒɒ]), Romanian: Noul Cnezat, Croatian: Novi Kneževac, and German: Neu-Kanischa.

The older Serbian names used for the town were Turska Kanjiža (Турска Кањижа), Mala Kanjiža (Мала Кањижа) and Nova Kanjiža (Нова Кањижа).

The Serbian and Hungarian languages are officially used by the municipal authorities.

History

People inhabited this area as early as the Neolithic era as well. Historically, the region was populated by Sarmatians, Gepids, Huns, Avars and Slavs. The first written record of Novi Kneževac was made in the 9th century, mentioning under the name "Kneža". In the next century, it was mentioned as "Kanjiša". Until the arrival of the Ottomans, it was under the administration of Hungarian feudal landlords. In the 16th century, during the Ottoman administration, it was populated by Serbs, its name became known as "Turska Kanjiža" and there were already 30-40 houses in the settlement at the beginning of the 18th century

Kneževac

Κneževac (Serbian Cyrillic: Кнежевац) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Rakovica.

Location

Κneževac is located in the central part of the municipality. It developed as a village on the northern slopes of the Straževica hill, between the mouth of the Zmajevac brook into the Rakovički potok and its own confluence into the Topčiderka river. It is bordered by the neighborhoods of Rakovica on the north, Vidikovačka Padina on the west and Labudovo Brdo and Kijevo on the south.

Characteristics

As a southern extension of Rakovica, it developed quickly after the World War II (population 784 in 1921, 12,947 in 1971), turning from a distant suburb into an urban neighborhood of Belgrade to which it is connected not just by the roads but also by the railway and a tram line (No. 3). However, modern neighborhood is administratively diminished, so the population of the local community of Kneževac in 2002 was only 3,407. The Rakovica monastery and the woods of Manastirska šuma are located nearby so as the Belgrade's major quarry, Kijevo, on Straževica. The vast underground military complex "Kneževac", heavily bombed during the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia is colloquially better known as Straževica.

Kneževac (Knić)

Kneževac (Serbian: Кнежевац) is a village situated in Knić municipality in Serbia.

References

Coordinates: 44°03′N 20°40′E / 44.050°N 20.667°E / 44.050; 20.667

Kneževac (Sjenica)

Kneževac is a village in the municipality of Sjenica, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 105 people.

References

Coordinates: 43°15′N 20°07′E / 43.250°N 20.117°E / 43.250; 20.117