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Srem in Serbian or Srijem in Croatian (from Latin: Sirmium) is a fertile region of the Pannonian plain in Europe, between the Danube and Sava rivers. It is divided between Serbia and Montenegro and Croatia.Most of Srem is located in Serbia's northern province of Vojvodina, in the Srem District. A small part of the region around Belgrade and Zemun is a part of Serbia properThe term Serbia proper is often used in English to refer to the part of Serbia that lies outside the northern and southern autonomous provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina. According to the Library of Congress, it denotes "the part of the Republic of Serbia n. The westernmost part lies in eastern Croatia, in the Vukovar-Srijem countyVukovar-Srijem county Vukovarsko-srijemska zupanija is the easternmost Croatian county which includes southeastern parts of Slavonia, western parts of Srijem, and the lower Sava river basin Posavina . Its center is Vukovar; other cities are Vinkovci, Zupa.
The region was historically a whole, notably under the Kingdom of HungaryThe Kingdom of Hungary is the name of a multiethnic kingdom that existed from 1000 to 1918. It arose in present-day western Hungary and subsequently spread to remaining present-day Hungary, to Transylvania (in present-day Romania), Slovakia, Carpatho-Ukra in the SzerémSzerem (-Hungarian, in Serbian: Srem in Croatian: Srijem in Latin: Sirmium is the name of a historic administrative county ( comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary, autonomous region Croatia- Slavonia. Its territory is presently in eastern Croatia and north county.
1 Geography
The regions principal hill is Fruška Gora .
1.1 Bordering regions
- BackaBacka ( Serbian: Hungarian: Bacska is an area of the Pannonian plain lying between the rivers Danube and Tisza. Historically a part of the Kingdom of Hungary, the southern part of the area was transferred by the Treaty of Trianon ( 4 June 1920) to the new to the north, across Danube
- BanatBanat (Hungarian: Banat is a region in Southeastern Europe divided among three countries: the eastern part belongs to Romania (the counties of Timiş and Caraş-Severin), the western part to Serbia-Montenegro (the Serbian Banat, included in th to the east, also across Danube
- Šumadijaumadija is a region in central Serbia. The area was heavily forested, hence the name uma forest). The city of Kragujevac is the center of the region, and the administrative center of the Sumadija okrug of Serbia. See also geographical regions in Serbia an the south-east, across Sava
- MacvaMacva ( Hungarian Macs is a region in the northwest of Serbia. It is situated in a fertile plain between the Sava and Drina rivers. The chief town of this region is Sabac, and it gave its name to the modern Macva okrug of Serbia. Macva was inhabited since to the south, across Sava
- Semberija to the south-west, across Sava
- Slavonia to the west. The border between Srem and Slavonia is unclear. It runs somewhere along the line Vukovar- Vinkovci- Županja . According to another interpretation, the western border follows the Bosut , Barica and Vuka rivers.
1.2 Cities in Srem
- Serbia-Montenegro
- Zemun
- New Belgrade
- Vojvodina
- Croatia
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