Novibazar

Novibazar (also Jenipasar, sometimes Rascia), the capital of a sanjak, situated on the river Rashka, an affluent of the Morava, 120 miles SE. of Bosna Serai. Pop. 12,000. The sanjak of Novibazar (3842 sq. m.; pop. 168,000) is mountainous and barren, but as lying between Servia and Montenegro is of strategic importance. The western part is occupied by Austria; but the civil administration is nominally at least reserved to the Porte.