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;
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; Vullnetari; Local elements of the Sandžak Muslim militia;	Studenica—Deževo detachment; Kopaonik detachment (two companies);
Strength
600	Unknown
Casualties and losses
60 killed; 23 wounded	83 killed; 48 wounded
	Civilian victims of terror: 115 Serbs and 61 Muslims

The Battle of Novi Pazar was fought during World War II, between the Pro-Axis Albanian forces against Chetniks and Partisans in the city of Novi Pazar, Sandžak, in the German-occupied Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Despite launching three assaults, the Chetniks and Partisans failed to capture Novi Pazar from the Albanian forces defending it.

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.