Novi Sad - The Statue Of Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Royalty-Free Stock Photography

The statue of Jovan Jovanović Zmaj 1833-1904, a poet and a physician, made by Dragan Nikolić from Belgrade, is a 2.3 m tall bronze figure on a granite pedestal. It was set up in 1984 in Zmaj Jovina Street in Novi Sad. Novi Sad was founded in 1694, when Serb merchants formed a colony across the Danube from the Petrovaradin fortress, a Habsburg strategic military post. In the 18th and 19th centuries, it became an important trading and manufacturing centre, as well as a centre of Serbian culture of that period. The city was heavily devastated in the 1848 Revolution, but it was subsequently restored.