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]
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