Mišeluk ( sr, Мишелук) is a 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 ...

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Geography

Mišeluk is located in Syrmian part of Novi Sad, between

Petrovaradin Petrovaradin ( sr-cyr, Петроварадин, ) is a historic town in the Serbian province of Vojvodina, now a part of the city of Novi Sad. As of 2011, the urban area has 14,810 inhabitants. Lying on the right bank of the Danube, across from t ...

and

Sremska Kamenica Sremska Kamenica (Serbian Cyrillic: ''Сремска Каменица'', ) is a town and urban neighborhood of Novi Sad, in Serbia. Name In Serbian, the town is known as ''Sremska Kamenica'' (Сремска Каменица), in Croatian a ...

. Administratively, Mišeluk is regarded as part of Petrovaradin. It is divided into 3 parts: Mišeluk 1, Mišeluk 2, and Mišeluk 3.

History

During

NATO bombing of Novi Sad in 1999 During the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, aerial bombing was carried out against the second largest Yugoslav city of Novi Sad. According to NATO press releases, the bombing targeted oil refineries, roads, bridges, and telecommunications relay ...

, buildings of the Radio Television Novi Sad in Mišeluk were devastated by

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bombs.

Population

Currently, Mišeluk neighborhood is sparsely inhabited, but city authorities are currently planning for Mišeluk to become a central neighborhood in the Syrmian part of Novi Sad. With planned 40,000 future residents, it will be larger than Petrovaradin and Sremska Kamenica.

Events

Mišeluk is the site of largest annual auto-moto racing

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in Serbia (and formerly in

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

References

*Jovan Mirosavljević, Brevijar ulica Novog Sada 1745-2001, Novi Sad, 2002.

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