- Immediately after the libertation of the city in 1749, the people of Sombor turned their focus toward opening schools
- Avram Mrazović, the supervisor of Serbian schools in the Austrian Empire, founded a course for Serbian teachers in Sombor in 1778, the so-called Norm
- Other ethnic groups who lived in Sombor also had their own primary confessional schools, and education was raised to a higher level with the establishment of the state high school in 1872
- In the field of sports and culture, Sombor was in full swing from the 1870s to 1941
- Sombor is known as the city of culture, because some of the oldest cultural institutions in Vojvodina operate there
