Remnants of their culture include ceramic vessels and large numbers of baked-clay figures.

Two necropolises have been found; one in the Kuline area near the railway station in Gërlicë, and the other in the Mollopolc region along the Ferizaj-Štimlje road.

Agriculture was the basic source of income, and other occupations included blacksmiths, potters, furriers, ranchers, and priests and monks.

Although it was first known as "Tasjon" by the surrounding villagers (the Turkish pronunciation of the French station), the name Ferizaj derived from Feriz Shasivari.

Traders passed through Kosovo from Prizren to Shkodër by caravan en route to Thessaloniki.

[14] When Ferizaj fell to Serbia during the First Balkan War, the local Albanian population offered a determined resistance and fighting reportedly lasted for three days.

Three to four hundred men were executed[15] and, according to the Archbishop of Skopje Lazër Mjeda, only three Muslim Albanians over age fifteen were left alive.

[19] In October 1915, Bulgaria entered the war and Ferizaj was part of the main artery connecting Kumanovo and Skopje with Kosovo.

Serb resistance ended on 25 November 1915, when it was conquered by the Bulgarian Army with aid from the Albanians.

[20] After the Axis invasion, Italian troops were deployed in Ferizaj and its auxiliary army airport.

[21] In 1941, the district Communist party encouraged enlistment in Albania's National Liberation Movement.

[24] 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.