Ferizaj in Albanian, or Uroševac in Serbian (Serbian Cyrillic: Урошевац) is a city and municipality in southern Kosovo, located approximately 38 kilometers (24 mi) south of the capital Pristina. Founded and named after the local hotelier Feriz Shashivari in the 19th century, the city was renamed Uroševac when Serbia annexed it in 1913. Ferizaj is the third most populous city in Kosovo, after Pristina and Prizren, and is the administrative center of the homonymous district.