The press

The owner of the first publishing house in Šabac was Andrija Slavuj On January 1st, 1883, Slavuj started publishing the first newspaper in the city – the “Šabački glasnik”. This was the only local newspaper published in Serbia for sometime The first short story of writer Janko Veselinović was published...

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  • The owner of the first publishing house in Šabac was Andrija Slavuj
  • On January 1st, 1883, Slavuj started publishing the first newspaper in the city – the “Šabački glasnik”. This was the only local newspaper published in Serbia for sometime
  • The first short story of writer Janko Veselinović was published in this paper
  • In 1888, the “Liberal” – a paper on politics, economics and literature started to be published
  • In 1889, the Equestrian Club “Knez Mihailo” started issuing the first sports newspaper “Vitez”