Sremski Karlovci ( Serbian Cyrillic : Сремски Карловци , pronounced [srêːmskiː kâːrloːʋt͡si] ) is a town and municipality located in the Srem District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina , Serbia . It is situated on the banks of the Danube , 8 kilometres (5 miles) from Novi Sad . According to the 2022 census results, it has a population of 7,872 inhabitants. The town has traditionally been known as the seat of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Habsburg Monarchy . It was the political and cultural capital of Serbian Vojvodina after the May Assembly and during the Revolution in 1848.
29-514: Karlowitz may refer to: Sremski Karlovci , a town in Vojvodina, Serbia ( Karlowitz in German) Treaty of Karlowitz (1699) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Karlowitz . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
58-788: A further year under a truce agreed at Karlowitz culminated in the Treaty of Constantinople of 1700 in which the Sultan ceded the Azov region to Peter the Great . (Russia had to return the territories eleven years later after the failed Pruth River Campaign and the Treaty of the Pruth in 1711.) Commissions were set up to devise the new borders between the Austrians and the Turks, with some parts disputed until 1703. Largely through
87-809: A military conflict with Ottomans. Venice obtained most of Dalmatia along with the Morea (the Peloponnese peninsula of southern Greece ) though the Morea was restored to the Turks within 20 years by the Treaty of Passarowitz . There was no agreement about the Holy Sepulchre although it was discussed in Karlowitz. The Ottomans retained Belgrade , the Banat of Temesvár (now Timișoara ), as well as suzerainty over Wallachia and Moldavia . Negotiations with Tsardom of Russia for
116-574: A monastery. From 1557, it belonged to Eparchy of Belgrade and Srem of the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć . 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
145-666: 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
174-518: The Bosnia Eyalet . That corresponded to much of Hungary , Croatia and Slavonia . The Principality of Transylvania remained nominally independent but was subject to the direct rule of Austrian governors. Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth recovered Podolia with the undestroyed fortress at Kamianets-Podilskyi (Although the fortress in Kamianets was not recaptured in the 1698 campaign ). Therefore,
203-518: The Habsburg monarchy to its largest extent to that point, cementing Archduchy of Austria as a dominant regional power. It was later increased further in size by the acquisition of Polish territories in 1772 and 1795, by the annexation of Dalmatia in 1815, and by the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1908. The treaty was a watershed moment in the history of the Ottoman Empire, which for
232-753: The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth , the Republic of Venice and Peter the Great , Tsar of Russia , a peace treaty was signed on 26 January 1699. On the basis of uti possidetis , the treaty confirmed the territorial holdings of each power. The Habsburgs received from the Ottomans the Eğri Eyalet , Varat Eyalet , much of the Budin Eyalet , the northern part of the Temeşvar Eyalet and parts of
261-493: 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
290-527: The Autonomous Province of Vojvodina , Serbia . Between 1980 and 1989, Sremski Karlovci was one of the seven municipalities of the city of Novi Sad . In January 2021 PM Igor Mirović announced a reconstruction of the facades of historically important buildings in Sremski Karlovci. According to the 2011 census, the municipality of Sremski Karlovci has 8,750 inhabitants. Ethnic composition of
319-622: 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
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#1732847501872348-747: 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. 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
377-757: The Serbian progressive Party, was elected as the new mayor of the municipal parliament. Sremski Karlovci is twinned with: Treaty of Karlowitz The Treaty of Karlowitz , concluding the Great Turkish War of 1683–1697, in which the Ottoman Empire was defeated by the Holy League at the Battle of Zenta , was signed in Karlowitz, in the Military Frontier of the Habsburg Monarchy (present-day Sremski Karlovci , Serbia ), on 26 January 1699. Also known as "The Austrian treaty that saved Europe", it marks
406-537: The areas lost 27 years earlier in the Treaty of Buchach in 1672 were regained. In return, Commonwealth gave back captured fortresses in Moldova . The treaty also assumed the release of prisoners, the displacement of the Buda Tatars from Moldova, the end of Tatar raids, the rendition of fugitives (Cossacks to Commonwealth, Moldovans to Ottomans) and the cessation of tribute payments by Commonwealth. Commonwealth never again had
435-477: The efforts of the Habsburg commissioner, Luigi Ferdinando Marsili , the Croatian and Bihać borders were agreed by mid-1700 and that at Temesvár by early 1701, leading to a border demarcated by physical landmarks for the first time. The acquisition of some 60,000 square miles (160,000 km ) of Hungarian territories at Karlowitz and of the Banat of Temesvár 18 years later by the Treaty of Passarowitz , enlarged
464-513: The end of Ottoman control in much of Central Europe , with their first major territorial losses in Europe, beginning the reversal of four centuries of expansion (1299–1683). The treaty established the Habsburg monarchy as the dominant power of the region. Following a two-month congress between the Ottoman Empire on one side and the Holy League of 1684 , a coalition of the Holy Roman Empire ,
493-619: The first time lost substantial amounts of territory after three-and-a-half centuries of expansionism in Europe. Although the Ottoman borders in the region would wax and wane over the next 100 years, never again would there be any further acquisition of territory on a scale seen during the reigns of Mehmed the Conqueror , Selim the Grim , or Suleiman the Magnificent in the 15th-16th centuries. Indeed, after
522-938: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karlowitz&oldid=932934108 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages 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
551-535: 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
580-426: The municipality of Sremski Karlovci: The following table gives a preview of total number of employed people per their core activity (as of 2017): 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
609-439: 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, the population of Karlovci numbered 547 Christian (Serb) houses. The city also had three Orthodox churches and
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#1732847501872638-802: 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 ( Russian : Карловацкий синод ), or ″Karlovatsky group″, also known in English as Synod of Karlovci. ) In 1922,
667-622: 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. A monument to Wrangel, sculpted by Vasiliy Azemsha, was unveiled in September 2007 in Karlovci. Between 1929 and 1941,
696-580: 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 12km from Novi Sad and 75km 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
725-556: 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
754-399: 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
783-469: 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
812-573: 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
841-660: 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 / гимназија , French : lycée ), founded on 3 August 1791. Three years after this,
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