Ferizaj history

Ferizaj was little more than a village until 1873, when the Belgrade-Thessaloniki railway was opened, passing through the town. Its Turkish name derives from a pre-1873 hotel owned by a local Kosovo Albanian named Feriz Shashivari; thus Serbs and Bosnians called the community FERIZAJ ("Feriz's village") while Albanians called it Ferizaj. The town was known as Ferizaj . It is still known informally as "Tasjan", from a Turkish form of the French word station, referring to its status as a main station on the railway line.^[2]

Ferizaj city intro

Ferizaj (Albanian: Ferizaj) is a city and municipality in southern Kosovo, located some 38 kilometers (24 mi) south of the capital Pristina. Ferizaj is the third most populous city in Kosovo, after Pristina and Prizren. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous district. The central city postal codes include 70000, 70010, 70030 and 70040.

The municipality covers an area of 345 km² (133 sq mi), including the city of Ferizaj and 45 villages. It is largely an agricultural plain. Its population is estimated at 108,690.