Sanjak of Novi Pazar

Sanjak of Novi Pazar Yeni Pazar sancağı  (Turkish)
Sanjak of the Ottoman Empire
← 1864–1913 →   →
The sanjak in late 19th century
Capital		Novi Pazar
History
•	Established	1864
•	Partitioned after the First Balkan War and the Treaty of London (1913)	1913
Today part of		Serbia  Montenegro  Kosovo

The Sanjak of Novi Pazar (Bosnian and Serbian: Novopazarski sandžak/Новопазарски санџак; Turkish: Yeni Pazar sancağı) was an Ottoman sanjak (second-level administrative unit) that existed at times from 1864 until the Balkan Wars of 1912–13 in the territory of present-day Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo. Today, the region is known as Raška and Sandžak.

The town of Novi Pazar did not exist at the time when Ottoman Bosnian general Isa-Beg Isaković captured the south-western parts of the Serbian Despotate somewhere around 1455, which in the immediate region included only the villages of Potok and Parice. In 1456, Isaković began building the town, establishing a marketplace (Turkish: pazar), a mosque, a public bath, a hostel, and a compound. Novi Pazar initially belonged to the Jeleč vilayet of the Skopsko Krajište ("Skopje Frontier"). There were also the vilayets of Ras and Sjenica. By 1463, Jeleč was incorporated into the larger Sanjak of Bosnia. The seat of the kadı was subsequently transferred from Jeleč to Novi Pazar little before 1485, which led to the foundation of a separate Sanjak of Novi Pazar administered within the Rumelia Eyalet. After promotion of the Bosnian Sanjak into an eyalet in 1580, the Sanjak of Novi Pazar was re-administered to the Bosnia Eyalet where it would remain until 1864. It had initially kazas of Yenivaroş, Mitroviça, Gusinye, Tergovişte, Akova, Kolaşin, Prepol and Taşlıca

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