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unusual facts about Koprivnica, Novi Pazar



Bosniak Academy of Sciences and Arts

The institution is based in Sarajevo (BiH) and has divisions in both Sarajevo and Novi Pazar (Serbia) to better reflect Bosniak interests in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Sandžak.

Edo Maajka – Sevdah o Rodama

The documentary follows Edo Maajka from his birthplace Brčko to Novi Pazar, where he is having the first hip hop concert ever held there in that region of Sandžak.

Eparchy of Raška and Prizren

The Eparchy directly serves the Serbian Orthodox of Kosovo and the lower Raška District (Tutin and Novi Pazar).

Erkech dialect

As a result of the mass population movements that affected eastern Bulgaria during the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, speakers of the dialect have established numerous colonies in the regions of Provadia, Varna, Novi Pazar, Balchik, Silistra and Pomorie, thus significantly expanding the range of the dialect.

Haris Radetinac

Haris Radetinac (born 28 October 1985 in Novi Pazar, SFR Yugoslavia) is a serbian footballer who plays Djurgårdens IF in Allsvenskan as a midfielder.

Ivan Golac

Golac was born in Koprivnica in PR Croatia then part of FPR Yugoslavia, to father Ivan who was a soldier in President Tito's guard.

Ivan Večenaj

Ivan Večenaj (18 May 1920 – 13 February 2013; Koprivnica, Croatia) was a Croatian painter.

Koprivnica

The fact that three most significant churches (St. Nicholas, St. Anthony of Padua with Franciscan monastery and Assumption of Virgin Mary in Mocile further proves economic power of the town in the 17th century.

Many of the Croatian greatest naïve artists come from the villages along the Drava in this county, notably Ivan Generalić.

Koprivnica-Križevci County

Koprivnica developed significantly in the 20th century with the advent of the Podravka food industry, and is known worldwide for its Vegeta spice.

Koprivnica, Novi Pazar

Milunka Savić (1888–1973), the most-decorated female combatant in the entire history of warfare, was born in the village.

Krešimir Friedrich

He and his brother Ferdo began visiting the local tennis courts in Koprivnica in their youth, frequenting the same club where contemporary painter and eventual fifth-ranked national player and subsequent Davis Cup captain Fedor Malančec trained at the time.

Križevci

Križevci, Croatia, a town in the Koprivnica-Križevci County in central Croatia

Monument to the Unknown Hero

Several prominent historians from Belgrade and Sarajevo have claimed that the unknown hero is a Bosniak named Sulejman Balić, a soldier from Duga Poljana, a town between Novi Pazar and Sjenica, that fought in the Serbian army against Austria-Hungary.

Nikola Bošković

Nikola came to Dubrovnik as a boy and his parents sent him to become a trader's apprentice for a wealthy trader called Rad Gleđević, who then dispatched him to Novi Pazar in the Ottoman Empire (today Sandžak, Serbia) to learn from the local traders.

Novi Pazar Municipality

It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Novi Pazar.

Novi Pazar, Bulgaria

It became part of the Principality of Bulgaria and many Turks fled to be replaced with Bulgarians from the ethnic Bulgarian lands that were left outside the country's borders of the time.

Pod, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Pod was a prehistoric settlement and hill fort located on a plateau on a slope of Mt Koprivnica near Bugojno in the upper valley of the river Vrbas in modern Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Sanjak of Prizren

The majority of the territory that once belonged to the Sanjak of Prizren now belongs to Kosovo or Serbia (Prizren, Hoča, and Žežna (20 km south-east of Novi Pazar) and smaller parts now belong to Montenegro (Bihor, and Trgovište (a settlement near Rožaje)).

Shale gas by country

"Fracking" is prohibited by moratorium despite the 30-million-euro contract signed with Chevron for the exploration of shale gas deposits in Novi Pazar.

Sveti Ivan

Sveti Ivan Žabno, a municipality in Koprivnica-Križevci County, Croatia

Sveti Petar

Sveti Petar Orehovec, a village and a municipality in the Koprivnica-Križevci County in Croatia

Sveti Petar Čvrstec, a village in Koprivnica-Križevci County, Croatia

Yenipazar

Novi Pazar is a city, notable during the Ottoman period when it took the name, in today's Serbia


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