Editing Subotica (section)

===Yugoslavia and Serbia===
[[File:Leševi na Senćanskom putu.jpg|thumb|right|Massacred bodies of [[Serbia]]n and [[Jews|Jewish]] civilians killed by Hungarian troops during the World War II]]
Subotica had been part of [[Austria-Hungary]] until the end of [[World War I]]. In 1918, the city became part of the [[Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes]]. As a result, Subotica became a border-town in [[Yugoslavia]] and did not, for a time, experience again the same dynamic prosperity it had enjoyed prior to World War I. However, during that time, Subotica was the third-largest city in Yugoslavia by population, following [[Belgrade]] and [[Zagreb]].
[[File:Serbia, Subotica, Monument to the Victims of Fascism, 20120921.jpg|thumb|left|Monument to the Victims of Fascism]]
In 1941, Yugoslavia was invaded and partitioned by the [[Axis Powers]], and its northern parts, including Subotica, were annexed by Hungary. The annexation was not considered legitimate by the international community and the city was de jure still part of Yugoslavia. The [[Yugoslav government in exile]] received formal recognition of legitimacy as the representative of the country. On 11 April 1941, the Hungarian troops arrived in Subotica on the grounds that the majority of the people living in the city were ethnic Hungarians, which had been part of the Kingdom of Hungary for over 600 years. During [[World War II]], the city lost approximately 7,000 of its citizens, mostly Serbs, Hungarians and Jews. Before the war about 6,000 [[Jews]] had lived in Subotica; many of these were deported from the city during the [[Holocaust]], mostly to [[Auschwitz]]. In April 1944, under German administration, a ghetto was set up.<ref>[http://holocaust.rs/en/subotica/ Subotica in WWII] Retrieved 8 September 2022.</ref> In addition, many [[communists]] were executed during Axis rule. In 1944, the Axis forces left the city, and Subotica became part of the new [[Yugoslavia]]. During the 1944–45 period, about 8,000 citizens {{Failed verification|date=September 2020}} (mainly Hungarians) were killed by [[Yugoslav partisans|Partisans]] while re-taking the city as a retribution for supporting Axis Hungary.<ref>Mészáros Sándor: Holttá nyilvánítva - Délvidéki magyar fátum 1944–45, I-II, Hatodik Síp Alapítvány, Budapest 1995.</ref><ref>Cseres Tibor: Vérbosszú Bácskában, [[Magvető|Magvető kiadó]], Budapest 1991.<!-- ISSN/ISBN needed, if any --></ref>{{Failed verification|date=September 2020}}

In the postwar period, Subotica has gradually been modernised. During the [[Yugoslav wars|Yugoslav]] and [[Kosovo war|Kosovo]] wars of the 1990s, a considerable number of Serb refugees came to the city from [[Croatia]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], and [[Kosovo]], while many ethnic Hungarians and Croats, as well as some local Serbs, left the region.