Šangaj ( sr-cyr, Шангај) is an urban neighborhood of the city of

Novi Sad Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pan ...

, Serbia. It is situated close to the

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, and is surrounded by the Novi Sad industrial zones, right next to the

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. It covers an area of 0.13 km².

Name

The old name of the area was Vrbak. In the Interwar period, the name of the settlement was Brančićevo Naselje ("Brančić's settlement"), named after Brančić who was the owner of the ''Šangaj'' snack bar, the first building built there. "Šangaj" was later adopted as the official name. The name ''Šangaj'' itself is the Serbian transliteration for

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, the largest city of the

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History

From the 1980s, city authorities tried to relocate the neighborhood, due to high pollution of the nearby

. Šangaj was located on the old road to

Kać Kać () is a suburban settlement of the city of Novi Sad, Serbia. The town has a Serb ethnic majority and its population was 11,612 at the 2011 census. Name In Serbian, the town is known as ''Kać'' or Каћ, in Croatian as ''Kać'', in Hunga ...

, which was closed in the early 1990s. Devastated by NATO bombardment, during the

Kosovo War The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that started 28 February 1998 and lasted until 11 June 1999. It was fought by the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (i.e. Serbia and Montenegro), which controlled Kosovo before the wa ...

of 1999, Šangaj was hit severely when

was bombed several times, causing severe

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and widespread

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damage (''See: 1999 NATO bombing in Novi Sad'').

Population

In mid-2005, neighborhood had 1,827 inhabitants, according to the estimation from city's registry. The majority of the population were Serbs, while a smaller part of population are

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. In mid-2010, neighborhood now have 2500 inhabitants, according to the estimation from city's registry. The majority of the population are now

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, while a smaller part of population are

Transportation

Šangaj has only one road from and to the neighborhood, from Kaćki most ("Kać bridge") over Danube-Tisa-Danube Canal. Neighborhood is connected to the rest of the city by only one bus line, No. 21, from

Banatić Banatić ( sr, Банатић) is an urban neighborhood of the city of Novi Sad, Serbia. Its name means "a little Banat". Borders The southern border of Banatić is Bulevar kralja Petra I (King Petar I Boulevard), the eastern border is Bulevar osl ...

neighborhood.

References

* Milorad Grujić, Vodič kroz Novi Sad i okolinu, Novi Sad, 2004. *Jovan Mirosavljević, Novi Sad - atlas ulica, Novi Sad, 1998.

External links

Neighborhoods of Novi Sad

Map of Novi Sad

(in Serbian) {{DEFAULTSORT:Sangaj Novi Sad neighborhoods Romani communities in Serbia