About this place

The spine of the old town, running from Liberty Square to the Bishop's Palace. It has been renamed more often than any other street in Novi Sad. It began as the Glavna ulica, the Hauptgasse, was called Magazinski sokak for a period after an uprising, and became Fo utca under the Hungarian administration after 1867 and then Kossuth Lajos utca in the last decades of Austro-Hungarian rule. Between the wars it was Kralja Petra I; it was renamed for Mussolini under the wartime occupation; after the liberation it was Kralja Petra I again, then Marsala Tita, before settling on Zmaj Jovina for the poet Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj. The oldest house on it is number 28, Kod belog lava, built in 1720 and among the first two-storey houses in the town. It is pedestrian today, lined with shops, bookshops and cafes. One caution for anyone dating a picture by its caption: the Kossuth name did not stay attached to this street. Mileticeva, the old Lebarski sokak, carried it during the Hungarian occupation of 1941 to 1944, so a Kossuth street postcard has to be dated before it can be placed.

Zmaj Jovina, Novi Sad

Sources: sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Улица_Змај_Јовина_(Нови_Сад) · sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Милетићева_улица_(Нови_Сад) · sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Крст_у_порти_Саборне_цркве · postcard captions in this archive

Zmaj Jovina

Images

The former main street

Market umbrellas on the left pavement

The corner shop and its awnings

The tall cross in the roadway

The street under snow

An orange sky over the street

Looking down from a balcony

A tram past the ornate new block

The long row of shopfronts

The Serbian Commercial Bank