Novi Pazar

Novi Pazar [CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE] sourced from here (amazing image - I like this a lot) ---------------------- ---------------------- COMMENT 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).  The conquer and imposition of alien rule explains why animosities remain among those in the Balkan region. Turkish (ie Ottoman) influence of 1500s & 1600s mentioned re spread of word 'pazar': -- Indonesia -- Malaysia -- Armenia -- Georgia -- Poland -- Russia -- Ukraine -- Uzbekistan Guess it's where the Ottomans either defeated and invaded or traded. That was kind of fun.