Sremski Karlovci

In Serbian, the town is known as Sremski Karlovci (Сремски Карловци), in Croatian as Srijemski Karlovci, in German as Karlowitz or Carlowitz, in Hungarian as Karlóca, in Polish as Karłowice, in Romanian as Carloviț and in Turkish as Karlofça. The former Serbian name used for the town was Karlovci (Карловци), which is also used today, albeit unofficially. The name of the town in Serbian is plural.

The town is situated along the Danube River, about 12 km from Novi Sad and 75 km from Belgrade, in the geographical region of Syrmia. The town of Sremski Karlovci is the only settlement in the municipality.

In ancient times, the Romans maintained a small fortress at this location. The town was first mentioned in historical documents in 1308 with the name Karom. The medieval fortress of Karom was built on the ruins of the ancient Roman one. Until 1521, Karom was a possession of Hungarian noble families, of whom the most well known were Báthory and Morović.

In 1521, Turkish military commander Bali-beg conquered Karom under the Ottoman Empire's invasion of Europe. During the next 170 years, the town was part of the Ottoman Empire. The Slavic name for the town – Karlovci, was first recorded in 1532/33. During Ottoman rule, the town was still predominately Serbian in ethnicity, with the smaller part of population composed of Muslims. According to the Ottoman defterler from 1545,{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} the population of Karlovci numbered 547 Christian (Serb) houses. The city also had three Orthodox churches and a monastery. From 1557, it belonged to Eparchy of Belgrade and Srem of the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć.

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Between 16 November 1698 and 26 January 1699, the town of Karlovci was the site of a congress that ended the hostilities between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League, a coalition of various European powers including Habsburg monarchy, Poland, Venice and Russia. The congress produced the Treaty of Karlowitz. It was the first time a round table was used in international politics.

After this peace treaty, the town was considered part of the Habsburg monarchy and was included in its Military Frontier. According to 1702 data, the population was composed of 215 Orthodox and 13 Catholic houses. By 1753, the population of the town numbered 3,843 people, of which 3,110 were classified as ethnic Serbs.

The town was the spiritual, political and cultural center of the Serbs in the Habsburg Monarchy. The Metropolitan of the Serbian Orthodox Church resided here. In the early 21st century, the Serbian Patriarch retains the title of Metropolitan of Karlovci.

The town had the earliest Serb (and Slavic in general) gymnasium (Serbian: gimnazija/{{lang|sr-Cyrl|гимназија}}, French: lycée), founded on 3 August 1791. Three years after this, the Orthodox seminary of Sremski Karlovci was founded here. It was the second-oldest Orthodox seminary in the world (after the Spiritual Academy in Kyiv), and it still operates.

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At the Serb National Assembly in Karlovci in May 1848, Serbs declared the unification of the regions of Srem, Banat, Bačka, and Baranja (including parts of the Military Frontier) into the province of Serbian Vojvodina. In the late 18th century, the Habsburg monarchy had invited numerous settlers from Bavaria and southern Germany into some of these regions along the Danube, in order to repopulate the area and re-establish agriculture after the effects of the Ottoman invasion and disease. The Germans, who became known as Danube-Swabians, were allowed to keep their language and Catholic religion. For more than a century, they had fairly autonomous settlements.

The first capital of Serbian Vojvodina was in Karlovci; it was later moved to Zemun, Veliki Bečkerek, and Temišvar. At the same time the title of the Orthodox Metropolitan of Karlovci was raised to that of Patriarch.

When Serbian Vojvodina was in 1849 organized as the new province named Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar, the town of Karlovci was not included into this province. It was returned to the administration of the Military Frontier (a Petrovaradin regiment that was part of Slavonian Krajina). With the abolition in 1881 of the Military Frontier, the town was included in Syrmia County of Croatia-Slavonia, the autonomous kingdom within Kingdom of Hungary and Austria-Hungary.

An Orthodox Patriarchate of Karlovci operated after 1848 in Karlovci until 1920, after World War I. At that time, the position was joined with the Metropolitanate of Belgrade to form the united Serbian Orthodox Church, in what was then the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

Between 1921 and 1944 the Patriarchate of Karlovci's Palace was the seat of the administration of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.

In 1918, the town became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (also known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia). In the summer of 1921, the town's former palace of the Patriarch of Karlovci was used as the residence of Russian metropolitan Antony (Khrapovitsky). Together with some refugee bishops from Russia, he organised what a few years later was instituted as the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR). (Some critics called this ecclesiastical body the Karlovatsky Synod ({{langx|ru|Карловацкий синод}}), or ″Karlovatsky group″, also known in English as Synod of Karlovci.[https://www.britannica.com/topic/Synod-of-Karlovci "Synod of Karlovci"], Encyclopedia Britannica online)

In 1922, the town became the headquarters of Russian White émigrés under the leadership of General Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel. In 1924 he set up the Russian All-Military Union, designed to include all Russian military émigrés the world over. Many emigres went to western Europe, especially France, and to the United States.[https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/wrangel_petr_nikolaevich_baron "Wrangel, Petr Nikolaevich, Baron"], Encyclopedia 1914-1918 A monument to Wrangel, sculpted by Vasiliy Azemsha, was unveiled in September 2007 in Karlovci.[http://www.politika.rs/scc/clanak/4102/Споменик-белом-барону Споменик белом барону] Politika, 13 September 2007.

Between 1929 and 1941, the town was part of Danube Banovina, a province of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. During World War II (1941–1944), after Nazi Germany's invasion of eastern Europe, the town was occupied by forces of the Axis Powers. It was attached to the Independent State of Croatia. During that time its name was changed to Hrvatski Karlovci. After the end of the war, most ethnic Germans were expelled from eastern Europe. The town became part of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Serbia.

Between 1980 and 1989, Sremski Karlovci was one of the seven municipalities of the city of Novi Sad.{{cite web |title=Sremski Karlovci obeležili 30 godina od ponovnog uspostavljanja samostalnosti |url=https://www.rtv.rs/sr_lat/vojvodina/srem/sremski-karlovci-obelezili-30-godina-od-ponovnog-uspostavljanja-samostalnosti_1070516.html |website=rtv.rs |date=26 November 2019}}

In January 2021 PM Igor Mirović announced a reconstruction of the facades of historically important buildings in Sremski Karlovci.{{Cite web|last=Vojvodine|first=Javna medijska ustanova JMU Radio-televizija|title=Mirović: Sačuvaćemo kulturno-istorijski značaj Sremskih Karlovaca|url=https://www.rtv.rs/sr_lat/vojvodina/mirovic-sacuvacemo-kulturno-istorijski-znacaj-sremskih-karlovaca_1197821.html|access-date=2021-01-14|website=JMU Radio-televizija Vojvodine}}

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{{Historical populations

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|1948|5350 |1953|5618 |1961|6390 |1971|7040 |1981|7547 |1991|7534 |2002|8839 |2011|8750 |2022|7872

| source = {{cite web|title=2011 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of Serbia|url=http://pod2.stat.gov.rs/ObjavljenePublikacije/Popis2011/Knjiga20.pdf|website=stat.gov.rs|publisher=Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia|access-date=16 January 2017}}

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According to the 2011 census, the municipality of Sremski Karlovci has 8,750 inhabitants.

Ethnic composition of the municipality of Sremski Karlovci:{{cite web|title=Попис становништва, домаћинстава и станова 2011. у Републици Србији|url=http://pod2.stat.gov.rs/ObjavljenePublikacije/Popis2011/Nacionalna%20pripadnost-Ethnicity.pdf|website=stat.gov.rs|publisher=Republički zavod za statistiku|access-date=16 January 2017}}

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The following table gives a preview of total number of employed people per their core activity (as of 2017):{{cite web|title=ОПШТИНЕ И РЕГИОНИ У РЕПУБЛИЦИ СРБИЈИ, 2018.|url=http://publikacije.stat.gov.rs/G2018/Pdf/G201813045.pdf|website=stat.gov.rs|publisher=Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia|access-date=17 March 2019|language=sr}}

Until 1989 Sremski Karlovci formed one of the urban municipalities of the city of Novi Sad. After Novi Sad merged six of its municipalities into one Novi Sad municipality, the municipality of Sremski Karlovci held a referendum to separate from Novi Sad, and established a separate municipality independent from Novi Sad. Although Sremski Karlovci lies in Syrmia region, the municipality belongs in South Bačka District, and not in the Syrmia District, because of its close proximity to Novi Sad.

In the Serbian local elections held on 24 April 2016, Sremski Karlovci elected a new municipality parliament, ending the rule of the DS in the town. Nenad Milenković, of the Serbian progressive Party, was elected as the new mayor of the municipal parliament.{{cite web |last1=Luković |first1=Siniša |title=The people of Tiv visited the sister municipality in Vojvodina |url=https://en.vijesti.me/amp/112707/citizens-of-Tivat-visited-the-sister-municipality-in-Vojvodina |website=vijesti.me |date=26 September 2016}}

• Gymnasium of Karlovci
• Clerical High School of Saint Arsenije
• Faculty of management{{Cite web|title=Fakultet za menadžment|url=https://www.famns.edu.rs/|access-date=2021-01-14|language=sr-RS}}
• College of Applied Studies in Management and Business Communication{{Cite web|title=Visoka škola za menadžment i poslovne komunikacije|url=http://www.mpk.edu.rs/|access-date=2021-01-14|website=Visoka škola strukovnih studija za menadžment i poslovne komunikacije|language=sr-RS}}

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• Educational historical buildings:
• Gymnasium of Karlovci, first Serbian secondary school (gymnasium)
• Clerical High School of Saint Arsenije
• Administrative buildings:
• Sremski Karlovci City Hall
• Religious buildings
• The Patriarchal Court
• The Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Nicholas
• The Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity
• Other buildings
• Fountain "Four Lions"
• The Chapel of Peace, Sremski Karlovci
• Archives of Sremski Karlovci

{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Serbia}}

Sremski Karlovci is twinned with:{{cite web |title=Градови побратими|url=http://sremskikarlovci.rs/gradovi-pobratimi/|website=sremskikarlovci.rs|publisher=Sremski Karlovci|language=sr|access-date=2020-01-07}}

• {{flagicon|SVK}} Bardejov, Slovakia
• {{flagicon|MKD}} Karpoš, North Macedonia
• {{flagicon|BIH}} Prnjavor, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• {{flagicon|MNE}} Tivat, Montenegro (2007)

File:Karlovačka gimnazija 15.7.2018 013.jpg|Gymnasium of Karlovci

File:The Orthodox Cathedral of St. Nicholas.jpg|Sremski Karlovci Orthodox Cathedral

File:RS-NS-SK-Karlóca014.JPG|Clerical High School of Saint Arsenije

File:Градска скупштина у Сремским Карловцима.jpg|City assembly building

File:Kuća Sabov Dejanović u Sremskim Karlovcima.jpg|Sabov-Dejanović's rococo house, 1790

File:SremskiKarlovciPlatan1.JPG|An old Platanus, monument of nature protected by the state, in front of a church

File:Museum of Sremski Karlovci 01.jpg|City museum

File:Muzej pčelarstva, Sremski Karlovci 09.jpg|Museum of beekeeping

File:Muzej Podunavskih Švaba 8.8.2018 141.jpg|Museum of Danube Swabians

File:Hotel Prezident 8.8.2018 052.jpg|A hotel in the centre

File:RS-NS-SK-Karlóca001.JPG|Faculty of management

File:Frontal view of Eco-center "Radulovački".jpg|Ecological center Miodrag Radulovacki

File:Vidikovac Sremski Karlovci 8295 13.jpg|Monument dedicated to Duško Trifunović and viewpoint of Karlovci

• Fruška Gora
• Syrmia
• List of places in Serbia
• List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina
• Spatial Cultural-Historical Units of Exceptional Importance

{{reflist}}

• Milorad Grujić, Vodič kroz Novi Sad i okolinu, Novi Sad, 2004.
• Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.

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• {{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Karlowitz|short=x}}
• {{official website|http://sremskikarlovci.rs/}}

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