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Novi Pazar (Template:Lang-sr-cyr) is a city located in the Raška District of southwestern Serbia. As of the 2022 census, the urban area has 71,462 inhabitants, while the city administrative area has 106,720 inhabitants.<ref name="Anon. o709">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The city is the cultural center of the Bosniaks in Serbia and of Sandžak.<ref name="Ahrens2007">Template:Cite book</ref> A multicultural area of Muslims and Orthodox Christians, many monuments of both religions, like the Altun-Alem Mosque and the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, are located in the region which has a total of 30 protected monuments of culture.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

NameEdit

During the 14th century under the old Serbian fortress of Stari Ras, an important market-place named Trgovište started to develop. By the middle of the 15th century, in the time of the final Ottoman Empire conquest of Old Serbia, another market-place was developing some 11 km to the east. The older place became known as Staro Trgovište (Old Trgovište, Template:Langx) and the younger as Novo Trgovište (New Trgovište, Template:Langx). The latter developed into the modern city of Novi Pazar.

The name "Novi Pazar" (meaning 'New Bazaar') was derived from the Serbian name Novo Trgovište, via the Turkish name Yeni Pazar, which is itself derived from bazaar (Template:Ety; Template:Ety).<ref name="etymology">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The city is known as Pazari i Ri or Tregu i Ri<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> in Albanian and simply Novi Pazar in Bosnian. Aside from that it is still known as Yeni Pazar in modern-day Turkey.

GeographyEdit

Novi Pazar is located in the valleys of the Jošanica, Raška, Deževska, and Ljudska rivers. It lies at an elevation of 496m, in the southeast Raška region. The city is surrounded by the Golija and Rogozna mountains, and the Pešter plateau lies to the west. The total area of the city administrative area is 742 km2. It contains 100 settlements, mostly small and spread over hills and mountains surrounding the city. The largest village is Mur, with over 3000 residents.Template:Citation needed

ClimateEdit

Novi Pazar has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification: Dfb) typical of the hilly Raška region. It is generally cooler than Serbia's other major cities, though still significantly warmer than the neighboring town of Sjenica.

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HistoryEdit

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Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul from the 9th century

One of the oldest monuments of the area is the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul first built in the Roman era and reconstructed in the 9th century. Over many centuries the city area of Stari Ras was a borderline contested by the First Bulgarian Empire, Serbian Principality and Byzantine Empire.

Since the late-12th century, the region of modern Novi Pazar served as the principal province of the Serbian realm. It was an administrative division, usually under the direct rule of the monarch and sometimes as an appanage. It was the crownland, seat or appanage of various Serbian states throughout the Middle Ages, including the Serbian Kingdom (1217–1345) and the Serbian Empire (1345–1371). In 1427, the region and the remnant of Ras, as part of the Serbian Despotate, was ruled by Serbian despot Đurađ Branković. One of the markets was called "despotov trg" (Despot's square).<ref>Više autora, Novi Pazar i okolina, Beograd 1969.Template:Page needed</ref> In 1439, the region was captured by the Ottoman Empire, but was reconquered by the Serbian Despotate in 1444. In the summer of 1455, the Ottomans conquered the region again, and named the settlement of Trgovište Eski Bazar (Old Market). Novi Pazar was formally founded as a city in its own right in 1461 by Ottoman general Isa-Beg Ishaković, the Bosnian governor of the district (sanjak) who also founded Sarajevo.<ref name="Norris1993">Template:Cite book</ref> Ishaković decided to establish a new town on the area of Trgovište as an urban center between Raška and Jošanica, where at first he built a mosque, a public bath, a marketplace, a hostel, and a compound.Template:Citation needed

The town was the capital of the Sanjak of Novi Pazar during Ottoman rule. From 1878 to 1908, it was controlled by Austria-Hungary, and from 1908 to 1913, it was again part of the Ottoman empire under the Kosovo vilayet. It became part of the Kingdom of Serbia during the First Balkan War in 1912, and then in 1918 the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

The area has traditionally had a large number of Albanians and Muslim Slavs with a different culture from the Orthodox Serbs.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In May 1901, Albanians pillaged and partially burned the cities of Novi Pazar, Sjenica and Priština, and massacred Serbs in the area of Ibar Kolašin.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> A contemporary report stated that when the Serb forces entered the Sandjak of Novi Pazar, they "pacified" the Albanians.<ref name="General Zivkovich: The pacification of the Albanians in Novi Pazar.'">Template:Cite book</ref>

In the Battle for Novi Pazar, fought at the end of 1941 during the Second World War, the Chetniks, initially supported by the Partisans, unsuccessfully tried to capture the city.Template:Citation needed Following the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević on 5 October 2000, newly elected Prime Minister of Serbia Zoran Đinđić made considerable efforts to help economically the whole area of Novi Pazar. Also, with the help of Đinđić, the International University of Novi Pazar was founded in 2002. He made close relations with the leaders of Bosniaks, as part of his wider plan to reform Serbia.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Twelve years following his assassination, the Novi Pazar Assembly decided to rename one street in his name.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

DemographicsEdit

Template:Historical populationsAccording to the 2022 census, the municipality of Novi Pazar has 106,720 inhabitants, while the city itself has 71,462 inhabitants.<ref name="Anon. o709" /> A total of 68.47% of population live in urban area of the city. The population density is 135.32 inhabitants per square kilometer.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Novi Pazar has 23,022 households with 4,36 members on average; the number of homes is 28,688.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Religion structure in the city of Novi Pazar is predominantly Muslim (82,710), with Serbian Orthodox (16,051), Atheists (71), Catholics (51), and other minority groups.<ref name="popis50">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Most of the population speaks either Bosnian (74,501) or Serbian (23,406).<ref name="popis50" />

The composition of population by sex and average age:<ref name="popis50" />

  • Male - 49,984 (32.90 years) and
  • Female - 50,426 (34.14 years).

A total of 33,583 citizens (older than 15 years) have secondary education (44.41%), while the 7,351 citizens have higher education (9.72%). Of those with higher education, 5,005 (6.62%) have university education.<ref name="popis51">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web

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Prvomajska Street in Novi Pazar.

Ethnic compositionEdit

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Ethnic composition of Novi Pazar settlements (2002 census)

From the 15th century to the Balkan Wars, Novi Pazar was the capital of the sanjak of Novi Pazar. Typically, like other centres of the wider area, its composition was multiethnic, with Albanians, Serbs and Slavic-speaking Muslims as the largest ethnic groups of the city.<ref name="Hall2002">Template:Cite book</ref> The Ottoman travel writer Evliya Çelebi noted that it was one of the most populated towns in the Balkans in the 17th century. Jews also lived in the city until World War II.<ref>Mihaljević, Marina. The Jewish Heritage of Novi Pazar: A Case of Decaying Memory (Journal of the North American Society for Serbian Studies, January 2013), p. 103.</ref> The entire Jewish population of Novi Pazar - 221 individuals, were imprisoned, sent to the concentration camp Staro Sajmište and killed during the rule of Aćif Hadžiahmetović.<ref>Mušović, Ejup (1979), Etnički procesi i ethnička struktura stanovništva Novog Pazara, Etnografski Institut, 1979, p.48</ref> The ethnic composition of the city administrative area:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

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Population

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Bosniaks - - - - - 65,593 81,545 85,204
Serbs 25,177 27,933 25,076 21,834 19,064 17,599 16,234 14,142
Muslims - 23,250 37,140 49,769 64,251 1,599 - 1,851
Roma - 37 210 444 334 69 566 486
Gorani - - - - - 15 246 255
Albanians 144 126 307 233 209 129 202 200
Montenegrins 174 543 359 295 232 109 44 34
Yugoslavs 13,564 1,261 183 931 700 136 67 72
Turks 11,009 - - - - - - -
Others 263 5,627 1,057 494 459 747 4,476 161
Total 50,331 58,777 64,326 74,000 85,249 85,996 100,410 106,720

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Bosniaks/Muslims 1,085 - 32,798 43,774 47,243 58,252 60,684
Serbs 10,678 3,466 6,689 6,698 6,724 6,576 6,067
Gorani - - - - - 240 235
Albanians - 134 208 172 120 162 158
Yugoslavs - 5,944 848 570 105 64 68
Turks - 4,280 - - - - -
Montenegrins - 145 246 190 93 39 34
Others 229 135 310 345 1,541 3,304 4,217
Total 11,992 14,104 41,099 51,749 54,604 68,749 71,462

SettlementsEdit

Template:Update section Aside from the urban area of Novi Pazar (54,604), the city administrative area includes the following settlements, with population from the 2002 census: Template:Div col

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PoliticsEdit

Novi Pazar is governed by a city assembly composed of 47 councillors, a mayor and vice-mayor. After the last legislative election held in 2020, the local assembly is composed of the following groups:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

  • SDP - European Novi Pazar - Rasim Ljajić (21)
  • SPP - Muamer Zukorlić (11)
  • SDA - Party of Democratic Action of Sandžak (9)
  • Aleksandar Vučić - SNS, SPS, SRS (6)

EconomyEdit

Lying on crossroads between numerous old and new states, Novi Pazar has always been a strong trade center. Along with the trade, the city developed manufacturing tradition. During the 20th century, it became a center of textile industry.

Paradoxically, during the turbulent 1990s and, Novi Pazar prospered, even during the UN sanctions, boosted by the strong private initiative in textile industry. Jeans of Novi Pazar, first of forged trademarks, and later on its own labels, became famous throughout the region. However, during the relative economic prosperity in Serbia of the 2000s, the Novi Pazar economy collapsed, with demise of large textile combines in mismanaged privatization, and incoming competition from the import.

As of 2023, Novi Pazar was having around 23,000 unemployed inhabitants, making it one of the cities in Serbia with the highest unemployment rate (around 50%).<ref name="unemployment2023">Template:Cite news</ref> Some of the main reasons for this was unstable political situation during the 1990s and 2000s, and underdeveloped infrastructure (with no international airports, motorways and railways nearby).<ref name="unemployment2023" />

Economic figures

The following table gives a preview of total number of registered people employed in legal entities per their core activity (as of 2022):<ref name="stats2023">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Activity Total
Agriculture, forestry and fishing 72
Mining and quarrying 13
Manufacturing 3,173
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply 144
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities 497
Construction 1,957
Wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles 3,902
Transportation and storage 1,717
Accommodation and food services 924
Information and communication 198
Financial and insurance activities 216
Real estate activities 8
Professional, scientific and technical activities 634
Administrative and support service activities 186
Public administration and defense; compulsory social security 1,404
Education 2,741
Human health and social work activities 1,806
Arts, entertainment and recreation 276
Other service activities 633
Individual agricultural workers 441
Total 20,944

Society and cultureEdit

MonumentsEdit

The old Serbian Orthodox monastery of Sopoćani, the foundation of St King Uroš I, built in the second half of the 13th century and located west of Novi Pazar, is a World Heritage Site since 1979 accompanying with Stari Ras (Old Ras), a medieval capital of the Serbian great župan Stefan Nemanja.<ref>Stari Ras and Sopoćani, whc.unesco.org</ref><ref>By Their Fruit you will recognize them - Christianization of Serbia in Middle Ages, Perica Speher, 2010.</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

The city also houses the oldest intact church in Serbia and one of the oldest ones in the region which dates from the 9th-century, the Church of St Peter. The church's walls were defaced with graffiti on 6 April 2008. The police have not officially concluded why the incident occurred.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

On a hilltop overlooking Novi Pazar is the 12th century monastery of Đurđevi stupovi, long left in ruin, but recently restored and with a monastic community using it, with plate glass to keep out the weather and preserve the fine frescos. The main mosque of the city, the Altun-Alem Mosque, was built in the first half of the 16th century by architect Abdul Gani.<ref>„Sve o Altun-alem džamiji”. Ras.rs. 30. 1. 2011. Архивирано из оригинала на датум 16. 01. 2016. Приступљено 21. 8. 2015.</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

There are various other historic Ottoman buildings, such as the 17th-century Amir-agin Han, a 15th-century Hammam, and the 15th-century Turkish fortress (all gone but the walls, the site of which is now a walled park in the city centre).<ref>Амир-агин хан, spomenicikulture</ref><ref>Стари амам — Споменици културе у Србији, spomenicikulture</ref>

EducationEdit

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Faculty for Islamic studies in Novi Pazar

Novi Pazar is home to two universities, the International University of Novi Pazar and the State University of Novi Pazar.

SportEdit

The city's football club FK Novi Pazar was founded in 1928, under the name "FK Sandžak", which later changed to "FK Deževa". The club has played under its current name since 1962, when Deževa and another local football club, FK Ras, unified under this name. The club was a SFRJ amateur champion, and a member of the Yugoslav Second League. FK Novi Pazar qualified for a promotional play-off twice, but lost both times (to FK Sutjeska Nikšić in 1994, and to FK Sloboda Užice in 1995). FK Novi Pazar finally promoted to Serbian SuperLiga in 2011–12 season. FK Novi Pazar is the oldest second-league team in Serbia. Football is still an extremely popular sport in Novi Pazar and the city stadium is always full.

Volleyball clubs in the city are OK Novi Pazar (first league) and OK Koteks.

The Handball club is in the second league and used to have the name "Ras" but it was changed to RK Novi Pazar in 2004.

The Basketball club of the city is OKK Novi Pazar.

Famous athletes from the city include Turkish basketball national team player Mirsad Jahović Türkcan, former football player of Besiktas Sead Halilagić, handball-player Mirsad Terzić (who represents Bosnia and Herzegovina) and young football players Adem Ljajić, Ediz Bahtiyaroğlu, Armin Đerlek.

International cooperationEdit

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List of Novi Pazar's sister and twin cities:<ref name=SC>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Other friendships and cooperations, protocols, memorandums:<ref name=SC/><ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/C9cmQ4uifjp (Official instagram post of the mayor referring to the new relationship with Damietta)</ref>

GalleryEdit

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    Novi Pazar city center

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    Novi Pazar city center

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    Novi Pazar city center

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    Novi Pazar Mosque in the neighborhood

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    Archeological artifacts, Museum of Ras

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    Serbian household from the 19th and early 20th century, Museum of Ras

Notable residentsEdit

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