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Sanjak of Novi Pazar Yeni Pazar sancağı (Turkish) | |||||||||||
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Sanjak of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||
1865–1913 | |||||||||||
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The sanjak in the late 19th century | |||||||||||
Capital | Novi Pazar | ||||||||||
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• Sanjak of Novi Pazar created | 1865 | ||||||||||
• New Sanjak of Pljevlja created | 1880 | ||||||||||
• Sanjak of Sjenica created by reorganization | 1902 | ||||||||||
• Region partitioned after the First Balkan War | 1913 | ||||||||||
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The Sanjak of Novi Pazar (Albanian: Sanxhaku i Pazarit të Ri; Serbo-Croatian: Novopazarski sandžak, Новопазарски санџак; Turkish: Yeni Pazar sancağı) was an Ottoman sanjak (second-level administrative unit) that was created in 1865. It was reorganized in 1880 and 1902. The Ottoman rule in the region lasted until the First Balkan War (1912) and the treaty of London (1913) The Sanjak of Novi Pazar included territories of present-day northeastern Montenegro and southwestern Serbia, also including some northern parts of Kosovo. In modern day terms the region is known as Sandžak.