Šid

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Šid Шид
Coat of arms
Location of Šid within Serbia
Coordinates: 45°07′N 19°14′E / 45.117°N 19.233°E / 45.117; 19.233
Country	Serbia
District	Srem
Settlements	19
Government
- Mayor	Milenko Dabić
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
Area code	+381 22
Car plates	SM
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.

[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

Map of Šid municipality

[edit] Ethnic groups (2002 census)

The population of the Šid municipality:

• Serbs (77.62%)
• Slovaks (6.46%)
• Croats (5.35%)
• Rusyns (3.38%)
• Yugoslavs (1.89%)

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.

[edit] See also

• Srem District
• Srem

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[edit] Links

• Russian Castle

[edit] References