Battle of Novi Pazar

Battle of Novi Pazar
Part of World War II in Yugoslavia
Date November — December 1941 Location Novi Pazar, German-occupied territory of Serbia (modern-day Serbia) Result Albanian victory Albanians Launch a counter-offensive and capture Raška[1]
Belligerents
Albania Sandžak Muslim militia	Chetniks Montenegrin partisans
Commanders and leaders
Shaban Polluzha Bilal Dreshaj Aćif Hadžiahmetović Jakub Kardović Džemail Koničanin	Radomir Cvetić Vojislav Lukačević Sveta Trifunović
Units involved
Albanian gendarmerie Vulnetari Local elements of the Sandžak Muslim militia	Studenica—Deževo detachment Kopaonik detachment (two companies)
Strength
600 [2]	unknown
Casualties and losses
60 killed 23 wounded [3]	83 killed 48 wounded [3]
Civilian victims of terror: 115 Serbs and 61 Muslims

The Battle of Novi Pazar was fought between November and December 1941 during World War II, between the Chetniks and Albanian forces under Axis command in the city of Novi Pazar, Sandžak, in the German-occupied Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Despite launching three assaults, the Chetniks failed to capture Novi Pazar.

During World War II, the territory of Sandžak was the subject of territorial disputes between Germany, Italy, as well as the local Muslim and Albanian populations. Due to the multiple insurgent, ethnic and religious groups in the region, persecution and genocide of Serbs, Jews and Romani people characterised the conflict in Yugoslavia.