Trgovište

Trgovište grew beneath the fortress of Ras, in the mountain valleys of medieval Raška. Its market brought together local traders and merchants from Ragusa, while the stronghold above had guarded an early centre of the Serbian state. In the fifteenth century the Ottoman governor Isa-beg Ishaković founded a new market nearby, which became Novi Pazar. The older settlement was known in Turkish as Eski Bazar, the Old Market, and continued to be recorded alongside its newer neighbour.