Old cemetery in Novi Pazar, Serbia.
'Novi Pazar' translates to 'New Market' in Bulgarian (but probably also other varieties of Slavic derived languages).
I'm going to guess that 'Pazar' originates from 'bazaar' or similar, and that this has been adopted as a result of the history of invasion and domination by the Ottoman Turks.
Word goes back to: Persian bāzār
origins in Zoroastrian Persia
origins of word = Parthian language (ancient Persian / Iranian)
7th-8th century = shared word among:
- Kurdish
- Albanian
- Bosnian
- Turkish = 'pazar'
- Bengali
- Odia (eastern India)
- Bulgarian
- Macedonian
- Cypriot Greek
- Greek
- Hindi
- Hungarian
So the above is where Persian influence spread OR the Persian word was imported and adopted as result of Turkish influence, as the Balkan region was subject to invasion and Ottoman rule commencing circa. 1400s (I think).
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