History of Novi Pazar

;Dubrovnik, Niš, Sofia, Constantinople, Salonica, Sarajevo, Belgrade and Budapest. Many authors wrote about Novi Pazar and EvliyaCelebi noted that it was one of the biggest towns in the Balkans in the 17th century.

The city was the capital of the Ottoman Sanjak of Novi Pazar that existed between the 15th and the 20th century as a constitutive unit of Bosnia Eyalet. Nikola Bošković (1642–1721), the father of the famous Ragusan scientist RuđerBošković (1711–1787), migrated to Novi Pazar, where he spent the last years of his life.

The name Novi Pazar (then Novi Bazar) entered the world encyclopedias as a synonym for the historical Sandžak region in 1878, the year when the Congress of Berlin designated the entire region as "corpus separatum" named Sanjak of Novi Pazar. The Sanjak of Novi Pazar was occupied and administered by Austria-Hungary from 1878 to 1908. In 1908 it was returned to the Ottoman Empire, which ruled this territory until it was recaptured by Serbia in 1912 during the First Balkan War. After World War I, the town of Novi Pazar rapidly lost its importance. Today, Novi Pazar is the main economic and cultural centre and the largest city in the