Vojvodina
Vojvodina is a northern province of Serbia. Its capital is Novi Sad, the second largest town is Subotica.
First settled by Slavs in the 6th century (Severans), isolated pockets of Slavs remained throughout the Panonian basin throughout history. In the the 10th century, the invading Magyars conquered this plain, along with most of the area of present-day Vojvodina.
More Serbs began settling from the 14th century onward and by 1483, according to a Hungarian sources, as much as half of the population of the Kingdom of Hungary would have been made up of Serbs at the time. Another Hungarian source from the same century put the number of Serb settlers in Vojvodina at 200,000. It was gained by Hapsburgs in 17th century and in that period there was significant German settlement. In the Austro-Hungury Voivodina enjoyed rather extensive autonomy. Since 1860 under Hungarian rule. Before World War I Vojvodina belonged to Cisleithania, the Pest crown half of Austria-Hungary. In November of 1918 the Assembly of Novi Sad proclaimed the union of Backa, Banat, Srem and Baranja with the then Kingdom of Serbia.
The region is traditionally divided by the rivers of Danube and Tisa into: Bačka in the northwest, Banat in the east and Srem in the southwest. Today, the western part of Srem is in Croatia while Baranja (which is between Danube and Drava, rather) is in Hungary and Croatia.
The results of the 2002 census yielded 2,031,992 inhabitants.
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Source: Republic Statistical Office of Serbia
