The city is called Ferizaji/Ferizaj in Albanian (pronounced "férizaï") and Урошевац/Uroševac in Serbian ("ourochévats"). It has about 42,000 inhabitants and 110,000 with its entire municipality (96% of them Albanians). It is located 25 km northeast of Štrpce/Shtërpca, 34 km west of Gjilan, 42 km south of Pristina, 54 km northwest of Skopje (North Macedonia).Not necessarily pretty despite the Ljuboten mountain in the background, the third city of Kosovo was conceived like a village of the Far West, in a hurry, carved around the railroad tracks. Before 1873, there was almost nothing here except the residence of the bey Feriz. This name remained and the railroad arrived in 1878. It was thanks to the French engineers who built the Thessaloniki-Skopje-Belgrade train line that Ferizaj developed. In 1913, it was renamed Uroševac in honor of Stefan Uroš V, the last ruler of the Serbian Nemanjić dynasty, who died in the area in 1371. Located at the mouth of the Kaçanik Gorge, which gives access to the Polog plain in Northern Macedonia, the site has seen the Romans pass through to subdue the Dardanians (200 BC), the Ottoman army to fight in Kosovo Polje (1389), Serbian soldiers (1912), the Nazis (1941), Tito's partisans (1944), Kosovar Albanian refugees (January 1999), then NATO soldiers (June 1999). KFOR stayed. The nearby American military camp of Bondsteel now provides a living for a large part of the population.

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