Novi Pazar

Novi Pazar (Serbian Cyrillic: Нови Пазар, listen (help·info)) is a city and municipality located in the Raška District of Serbia at 43.15° North, 20.52"° East, in the geographical region of Sandžak. According to the official census in 1991, the municipality of Novi Pazar had 85,249 inhabitants, while in 2002 census, number of inhabitants of municipality was 85,996. The city itself had a population of 54,604 in 2002. Its name means "a new bazaar" in the local language (which is referred to as the Serbian language by the Serb Christian inhabitants of the area, and Bosnian language by most of the Muslim inhabitants). The term is derived ultimately from Persian word "bazar" ("bazaar" in English) and Serbian/Bosnian word "novi" ("new" in English) - Note that word "pazar" is also used in Serbian/Bosnian to this day, but with slightly different meaning. In Turkish the name is Yeni Pazar, while in Albanian it is Pazar i Ri or Treg i Ri. Novi Pazar is the main economic and cultural centre of the Sandžak region (with Bijelo Polje in Montenegro after it), located in the valleys of the Jošanica, Raška, Deževska, and Ljudska rivers at the elevation of 496m. It is surrounded by the high lands of Golija and Rogozna mountains, as well as the Pešter Plateau. The total area of about 100 settlements of the municipality is 742km². Area Code: + 537