Novibazar
or NOVIPAZAR, town of Serbia on the Rashka river. In the town and vicinity are many ruins.
Under the Turkish rule the city was a capital of a sanjak of the same name.
It was given back to Turkey in 1909 as partial compensation for the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but during the Balkan War it was occupied in 1912 by Serbia and was finally transferred to that country by the treaties following the conclusion of that war.
Pop. about 15,000.