18.02.2026.
The Mayor of Novi Sad, Žarko Mićin, attended the Ceremonial Academy held at the Serbian National Theatre to mark the 200th anniversary of the founding of Matica srpska, the oldest literary, cultural and scholarly institution of the Serbian people, on the date of its establishment in Pest in 1826. Matica srpska was founded with the aim of preserving the identity, culture, language and historical memory of the Serbian people in the Habsburg Monarchy, and it was relocated to Novi Sad in 1864.