Novi Sad

American  

[naw-vee sahd] / ˈnɔ vi ˈsɑd /

noun

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

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Novi Sad British  

/ ˈnɔviː ˈsaːd /

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

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.

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Public uproar over the Novi Sad disaster triggered the resignation of the prime minister and the collapse of the government earlier this year.

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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.

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Goran Vesic, 56, who resigned days after the accident, was charged in September along with 12 others with a "serious crime against public safety" by the Novi Sad chief prosecutor.

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However, the Novi Sad High Court said there was "insufficient evidence to support reasonable suspicion" that Vesic and five other defendants committed the offences set out in the indictment, while confirming charges against the remaining seven.

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