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In Srem between the biggest European river, the Danube, and the Holy Fruska Gora Mountain, and within the gravitation impact of Belgrade and Novi Sad, on the slopes of three hills, Magarcevo, Cerat and Doka, Sremski Karlovci has nested, one of the most significant national and religious, as well as cultural and educational centers in Serbs.

This unique and unimitable place, both in respect of its geostrategic position and its esthetic and landscape characteristic, and also due to its significance in the field of hunting fishing, agriculture, and its health-climatic features, as well as due to its almost unknown and extremely strong influence of geomagnetic field and increased experience of light, has been always attracting many peoples, from Abis, Ncurs, Pelasgies, Jazigs, Romans, Gepides, Avars, Serbs, Franks, Bulgarians, Bizantines, Hungarians, Germans, Croats and others who have very willingly settled down here, the evidence of which are numerous archaeological findings.

Although the history of Sremski Karlovci has been often written about, it is still hidden and relatively unknown and unexplored, particularly the millennium before Christ and the millennium of the new era. Discussions on origin and name of Sremski Karlovci have been led for centuries already, since M. Bonbardi until today; had Karlovci / for he first time mentioned in written mentioning of name Karom /1308/ been called Car-lovci /Tzar-Hunters/ or Kara-Lovci, Gara-Lovci /Black Hunters/.

When the Serbian king Dragutin, handed over his throne to his brother Milutin, in 1282, than his wife's brother the Hungarian king Ladislav, gave him Srem, Macva with Belgrade and other regions, to manage them, and he did it from 1284 till 1316 under the title of "King of Srem". He had here his summer palace, between the vineyards of Matej and Remenica, where he as a ruler often went with his guests and aristocrats to hunt. In 14th and 15th century Srem was a battlefield of the battle between the Orthodox people, Roman-Catholics and Bogomiles.

In the most part of 16th century /until 1521/ and almost dating the entire 17th century Karlovci was destroyed and under the occupation of the Turks. The royal army of the Roman - German emperor Leopold I, occupied Karlovci in 1687. After the Great Migration of the Serbs under the patriarch Arsenije III Carnojevic / the last decade of 17th century/, with the help of the Serbian army forces and under the command of the Princ Eugen of the Savoy, Turks were beaten near Senta in 1697, which represents the beginning of the two-centuries long expel of the Turks from Europe. The conclusion of Karlovci Peace between the Holy Alliance / Austria, Poland, and Venice/ and with the presence of Russian, Dutch and English representatives, in 1699 Karlovci was enscribed in diplomatic history of Europe.
After the conclusion of the peace, Karlovci became a border place, thus a great part of the trade was done by roads and waters through it.

In 1713, Karlovci was determined to be, not accidentally, the seat of the Serbian orthodox metropolitan and from that time the metropolian residence has had the name of Serbian Orthodox Metropolitan residence of Karlovci, the entre history of which unfortunately, has been fulfilled with a struggle to defend the Orthodox religion and national rights, granted by privileges.

From that time, this beautiful and pretty little town, Karlovci, became in the next two centuries a symbol of the Serbian post-Kosovo renewal, an ever burning icon lamp of Serbian culture, art, and spiritualism, or "The Zyjjon of Serbian Orthodoxy".

The following were established in Karlovci: the first a little bit more modern elementary school /1726/, the first Serbian Secondary school /1735/. The first Serbian high school and the first school drama was performed there.

In 1753 Karlovci became "a free military community"; in 1848 at the May Assembly the Serbian Vojvodina /Dukedom of Serbia/ which was abolished in I860, and by the tzar's Rescripct in 1871 the military border was also abolished. The citizens of Karlovci, who were orthodox suffered during the both world wars torturing, imprisoning and extermination. After 1945 Karlovci was, due to its glorious Serbian past, "a forgotten town" until 1991 when the low on Renewal of Sremski Karlovci was brought.

Good sorted vines and brandies are today produced and drunk in Karlovci.