Šid
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Šid Шид |
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Location of Šid within Serbia | |||
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Country | Serbia | ||
District | Srem | ||
Settlements | 19 | ||
Government | |||
- Mayor | Mita Avramov | ||
Area [1] | |||
- Municipality | 687 km² (265.3 sq mi) | ||
Population (2002 census)[2] | |||
- Total | 16,311 | ||
- Municipality | 38,973 | ||
Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
- Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
Postal code | 22240 | ||
Car plates | SM | ||
Area code | +381 22 | ||
Website: http://www.opstinasid.org/ |
Šid (Шид) is a town and municipality in Srem District of Vojvodina, Serbia. Šid town has a population of 16,301, and Šid municipality 38,921.
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[edit] Name
In Serbian, the town is known as Šid (Шид), in Croatian as Šid, and in Hungarian as Sid.
[edit] Inhabited places
Šid municipality encompasses of town of Šid, and following villages:
- Adaševci
- Batrovci
- Bačinci
- Berkasovo
- Bikić Do
- Bingula
- Vašica
- Višnjićevo
- Gibarac
- Erdevik
- Ilinci
- Jamena
- Kukujevci
- Ljuba
- Molovin
- Morović
- Privina Glava
- Sot
[edit] Ethnic groups (2002 census)
The population of the Šid municipality:
Most of the settlements in the municipality have an ethnic Serb majority. The settlement with Slovak ethnic majority is Ljuba. Ethnically mixed settlements are Bikić Do (with relative Rusyn majority) and Sot (with relative Serb majority).
[edit] Culture
Near the Privina Glava village is Privina Glava Monastery. According to the legend, the monastery was founded by the squire Priva in the 12th century.
In Šid, there is a museum dedicated to an important Serbian artist Sava Šumanović, also a museum of naive art "Ilijanum" consisting of more than three hundred works of art, mainly paintings.