ordered the population to surrender. Three to four hundred men were executed and, according to the Archbishop of Skopje Lazër Mjeda, only three Muslim Albanians over age fifteen were left alive. The destruction of Albanian-occupied villages around Ferizaj followed. Before the 1913 Treaty of London in 1913 made Ferizaj part of the Kingdom of Serbia, its name was changed to Uroševac after Stefan Uroš V of Serbia. The beginning of the First World War separated Serbia and Montenegro. In October 1915, Bulgaria entered the war and Ferizaj was part of the main artery connecting Kumanovo and Skopje with Kosovo. The city was a stopping point for the Bulgarian attack from the Kaçanik Gorge. Serb resistance ended on 25 November 1915, when it was conquered by the Bulgarian Army with aid from the Albanians. The army withdrew on 1 April 1916, leaving the Prizren-Albania railway under Austro-Hungarian command. Modern period The early Second World War negated a 1938 agreement between Yugoslavia and Turkey which would have resettled large numbers of Albanians in Turkey from 1939 to 1944. After the Axis invasion, Italian troops were deployed in Ferizaj and its auxiliary army airport. In 1941, the district Communist party encouraged enlistment in Albania's National Liberation Movement. After the Italian surrender the district was occupied by Germany, which treated the Albanian population somewhat better. In 1943, the arrest and deportation of all National Liberation Movement participants began. The city was liberated on 2 December 1944, and the district's economy needed to be rebuilt. Kosovo War The city of Ferizaj experienced some damage during the 1999 Kosovo War, with some of its Albanian neighborhoods shelled and burned by the Yugoslav People's Army. Camp Bondsteel, the main base of the United States Army detachment of the KFOR peacekeeping force in Kosovo, is on rolling hills and farmland near the city. The camp, established immediately after the war, covers 955 acres (360,000 square meters). See also Administrative divisions of Kosovo Notes References