Titel

Titel Тител
Town and municipality
Panorama view of Titel, seen from Titel Hill
Coat of arms
Location of the municipality of Titel within Serbia
Coordinates: 45°12′N 20°18′E / 45.200°N 20.300°E / 45.200; 20.300Coordinates: 45°12′N 20°18′E / 45.200°N 20.300°E / 45.200; 20.300
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
District	South Bačka
Settlements	6
Government
• Mayor	Milivoj Petrović
Area
• Municipality	262 km2 (101 sq mi)
Population (2011 census)
• Town	5,247
• Municipality	15,738
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	21240
Area code	+381 21
Car plates	NS
Website	www.opstina-titel.org.rs

Titel (Serbian Cyrillic: Тител) is a town and municipality located in the South Bačka District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town of Titel has a population of 5,247, while the population of the municipality of Titel is 15,738. It is located in southeastern part of the geographical region of Bačka, known as Šajkaška.

In Serbian, the town is known as Titel (Тител), in Hungarian as Titel, in German as Titel (and sometimes Theisshügel), and in Latin as Titulium.

The Titel Plateau is an archaeological site at the Danube-Tisa confluence with prehistoric and ancient findings.

Early medieval sources are scarce. Slavs are mentioned in the area in the late 7th and early 8th century, while Magyars (Hungarians) settled the Pannonian Plain in 896, already in the next century holding the Tisa-Danube confluence. Grand Prince Árpád (r. 895–907) is believed to have defeated the Bulgars (Salan) at Titel. Titel was an important strategical location, and was included in the Bács County. Ladislaus I of Hungary (r. 1077–95) and his brother Lampert founded an Augustinian monastery here. On 17 October 1389 a Clement was inscribed at the Vienna University, who in Titel taught reading and cantillation. In 1439 Albert II's army awaited in Titel military aid from the county to help Đurađ Branković defend Smederevo, but the aid never arrived.