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3 unusual facts about Sombor


Croatian Carmelite Province of Saint Joseph the Father

The first Croatian Carmelite monastery was formed in Sombor in 1904 by members of a Hungarian Carmelite province.

Nikolay Minev

Minev's best international results were: third at Varna in 1960, second at Warsaw in 1961, tie for first at Sombor in 1966, and second at Albena in 1975.

Zsigmond Vincze

Zsigmond Vincze (Hungarian: Vincze Zsigmond) (1 July 1874 in Zombor – 30 June 1935 in Budapest) was a Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer who wrote several very successful operettas.


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Along the Templar Trail

As word of their peace walk spreads, national television networks and newspapers in cities such as Belgrade (Glas, Public Voice, Novosti), Sombor (TV Speckar), Sofia (Balkan Bulgarian Television), Plovdiv (Labor), Niš (Niska Televizija), and Alanya, Turkey (Kanal A TV Nightly News and Memleketim Alanya) interview the pair.

Bačka Oblast

According to 1921 census, oblast had linguistically heterogeneous population: speakers of Serbo-Croatian were dominant in the cities of Novi Sad, Sombor and Subotica; speakers of German were dominant in the districts of Apatin, Darda, Kula, Odžaci, Sombor and Stara Palanka; speakers of Hungarian were dominant in the districts of Topola and Batina; while speakers of Slovak were dominant in the district of Novi Sad.

Donji Tavankut

It has two railway stations (Donji Tavankut and Skenderovo) on the railroad from Subotica to Sombor (and further to Bezdan, Apatin or Erdut).

Đorđe Andrejević-Kun

In the years following World War II, he had one-man shows in Belgrade (1953 and 1959), Kragujevac, Čačak, Niš, Skopje, Zemun, and Sombor, and in Berlin in 1963.

Irinej Bulović

Irinej Bulović, born as Mirko Bulović on 11 February 1947, in Stanišić (by Sombor in Serbia is the Priest, Monch of Order of Saint Basil the Great and Bishop of the Eparchy of Bačka, bishop of Novi Sad, dean and Professor of Holy Bible on the Faculty of Theology of Belgrade.

Tourism in Vojvodina

Main agricultural hunting grounds in Vojvodina are located near Bečej, Senta, Kanjiža, Novi Kneževac, Ečka, Novo Miloševo, Padej, Kikinda, Ada, and Sombor.


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