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Demographic history of Vojvodina

Vojvodina is a place in Serbia where many different people have lived over time. Long, long ago, a group called the Illyrians lived there. Later on, Romans came and built houses and roads. Then, lots of other groups started moving in and making it their home, like the Huns, the Avars, and the Slavs.

In the 1500s and 1600s, the Ottoman Empire took over and made Vojvodina part of their land. They brought in people from other parts of their empire, like Bulgaria and Greece, to live there too. But in the 1700s, the Austrians took control of Vojvodina and many people from their empire and other European countries started moving in.

The people who lived there before the Austrians took control were mostly farmers, but the Austrians brought in merchants and craftspeople to make things like furniture and clothes. There were also more schools and churches built, and the people who lived there started to speak different languages like German, Hungarian, and Croatian.

In the 1900s, many wars happened in Vojvodina and people had to move around a lot. But today, many different kinds of people still live there and they all have their own culture and traditions.