Novi Pazar

Novi Pazar Град Нови Пазар
City
City of Novi Pazar
Clockwise, from top: City panorama at night, Novi Pazar Fortress, International University of Novi Pazar Rectorate, Raška river, Novi Pazar Mosque
Coat of arms
Location of the city of Novi Pazar within Serbia
Coordinates: 43°09′N 20°31′E / 43.150°N 20.517°E / 43.150; 20.517Coordinates: 43°09′N 20°31′E / 43.150°N 20.517°E / 43.150; 20.517
Country	Serbia
Region	Šumadija and Western Serbia
District	Raška
Founded	1461
Settlements	100
Government
• Mayor	Nihat Biševac (SDP)
Area
Area rank	31st
• Administrative	742 km2 (286 sq mi)
Elevation	477 m (1,565 ft)
Population (2011 census)
• Rank	10th
• Urban	66,527
• Administrative	100,410
• Administrative density	140/km2 (400/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	36300 36302 36303 36316 36318 36319 36322
Area code	+381(0)20
ISO 3166 code	SRB
Car plates	NP
Climate	Cfb
Website	www.novipazar.rs

Novi Pazar (Serbian Cyrillic: Нови Пазар, , lit. "New Bazaar" pronounced [nôʋiː pǎzaːr]) is a city located in the Raška District of western Serbia. As of the 2011 census, the urban area has 66,527 inhabitants, while the city administrative area has 100,410 inhabitants.

Novi Pazar is the cultural center of the Bosniaks in Serbia and the historical region of Sandžak. A multicultural area of Muslims and Orthodox Christians, many monuments of both religions, like the Altun-Alem Mosque and the Church of St. Apostles Peter and Paul, are found in the region.

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, in Turkish: Eski Pazar) and the younger as Novo Trgovište (Yeni Pazar). The latter developed into the modern city of Novi Pazar.

The name of Novi Pazar (meaning "new marketplace") was thus derived from the Serbian language placename Novo Trgovište, via the Turkish language Yeni Pazar, which is itself derived from bazaar (from Persian بازار (bāzār), meaning 'market'; from Middle Persian بهاچار (bahā-chār), meaning "place of prices"). It is still known as Yeni Pazar in modern-day Turkey.