Novi Sad

American

[naw-vee sahd] / ˈnɔ vi ˈsɑd /

noun

a city in and the capital of Vojvodina, in Serbia, on the Danube.

Novi Sad British

/ ˈnɔviː ˈsaːd /

noun

German name: Neusatz. a port in Serbia, in the NE on the River Danube: founded in 1690 as the seat of the Serbian patriarch; university (1960). Pop: 234 151 (2002)

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A wave of large-scale student-led protests has gripped Serbia since November 2024, after the collapse of a railway station roof killed 16 people in Novi Sad, the country’s second-largest city.

From Barron's • Dec. 28, 2025

A Serbian court dropped charges Wednesday against a former construction minister over the Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse that killed 16 people, citing a lack of evidence.

From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025

Her son Stefan, aged 27, was among the 16 killed in the collapse at a railway station in the city of Novi Sad.

From Barron's • Nov. 17, 2025

At a Gazprom service station on the motorway between Novi Sad and Belgrade, Bojan and his colleagues were taking no chances, pumping the petrol and diesel for their customers.

From BBC • Nov. 11, 2025

The Radical party was no longer under its happy triumvirate of Pašić, the old diplomat, Protić, the executor of his ideas, and Patchoù, a medical man from Novi Sad, the real brain of the party.

From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Baerlein, Henry

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