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Novi Pazar, Shumen Province
Place in Shumen, Bulgaria / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Novi Pazar (Bulgarian: Нови пазар, "new marketplace") is a town in Shumen Province, northeastern Bulgaria, located in a hollow between the Shumen, Ludogorie and Provadiya plateaus, on the banks of the Kriva Reka ("twisting river"). It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Novi Pazar Municipality. As of December 2009, the town had a population of 12,673.[1][2][3]