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Svetozar Miletić

(1826, Mošorin, Titel – 1901) was an advocate, politician, mayor of Novi Sad, and the political leader of Serbs in Vojvodina. He was the oldest of seven children born to Sima and Teodosija (née Rajić) Miletić in the village of Mošorin in Šajkaška, the Serbian Military Frontier, on February 22, 1826.

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Jovan Jovanović Zmaj

(November 24, 1833 - June 3, 1904) was one of the best-known Serbian poets.

Zmaj was born in Novi Sad. He finished elementary school in the town, and secondary school in Pozsony (today Bratislava), later studying in Budapest, Prague and Vienna. In 1870, he returned to Neusatz to work as a doctor, motivated by the fact that his wife and...

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Đura Daničić

(April 4, 1825 in Novi Sad – November 17, 1882 in Zagreb), was a Serbian philologist, translator, linguistic historian and lexicographer. He was a prolific scholar at the Belgrade Grande École (now the University of Belgrade).He was born Đorđe Popović in the family of Orthodox priest Jovan Popović. He attended schools in Novi Sad...

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Mileva Marić

(December 19, 1875 – August 4, 1948) was one of the first women to study mathematics and physics in Europe. She was Albert Einstein's fellow student at the Zurich Polytechnic, and later became his first wife.

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Laza Kostić

(1841, Kovilj, Novi Sad – Vienna, 1910) was a Serbian poet, prose writer, lawyer, philosopher, polyglot, publicist, and politician, considered to be one of the greatest minds of Serbian literature.

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