Ferizaj has always been considered as a city where tolerance and coexistence in terms of religion and culture has been part of the society in the last centuries.

During and after the Kosovo War in 1999, the US Army base Camp Bondsteel was established outside of the city, now being used by forces belonging to KFOR.

It is the largest and the most expensive foreign military base built by the Americans in South Eastern Europe, since the Vietnam War.

Since 2016, the MuralFest festival has been organised annually by the organisation with the same name MuralFest Kosova by painting murals in public spaces, it eventually spread to other cities in Kosovo, the festival has been attracting the attention of international media since last year, it is attended by famous mural artists around the world.

In 1914, Ferizović was later renamed Uroševac, after the Serbian King Stefan Uroš II Milutin,[4][5] while the Albanian name remained unchanged.

When carriers of this ethno-cultural group reached the region before the end of the 6th millennium BC, they destroyed Vinča habitats.

In the city, two necropoleis have been found, one in the locality of Kuline near the railway station in Gërlicë, the other in region of Mollopolc, along the Ferizaj-Shtime road.

[9] Around 280 BC some episodes from the life of Dardania reaches historical records as a political community ruled by a king.

At the beginning it was called "Tasjon" by surrounding villagers; this came as a result of the French word station mispronounced by the local residents.

The rapid development of the town started with the construction of the railway station, and within a short period of time, the city became home to different inns, warehouses, and permanent markets.

Exporting raw materials especially that of cereals went through Ferizaj and through aligned foreign goods turnover came from Thessaloniki and Skopje.

When the settlement fell to Serbia during the First Balkan War, the local Albanian population offered determined resistance.

When the survivors returned, 300–400 men were executed[10] and according to the Catholic Archbishop of Skopje, Lazër Mjeda, only three Muslim Albanians over the age of fifteen were left alive.

[13] The massacre of the Albanian population following the entry of the Serbian army was described by Leo Freundlich who recorded contemporary reports in Albania's Golgotha.

[15] This was part of the Serbianisation efforts of the early twentieth century in which inhabited places within Kosovo were named after heroes from Serbian epic poetry.

[17][full citation needed] In October 1915, Bulgaria entered the war as an ally of the German empire, and conducted military operations in the Ferizaj area that were part of the main artery connecting Kumanovo and Skopje with Kosovo.

[19] In 1941, the Communist Party's leading bodies of Ferizaj implored more residents to join the National Liberation Movement.

With the capitulation of Italy, the country was occupied by Germany, and the behavior of the German occupation was more favorable to the Albanian population than that of the Italians.

[23] Later, the city suffered some damages during the 1999 Kosovo War, with some of its Albanian-populated neighborhoods being shelled and burned by the Yugoslav Army.

Following the war, the city has seen serious inter-communal unrest, which has resulted in almost all of the Serbians, and other non-Albanian inhabitants, either being expelled or forced to flee.

Camp Bondsteel, the main base of the United States Army detachment to the KFOR peacekeeping force in Kosovo, is located nearby.

[27] In the 1990s, the city of Ferizaj had a population of about 70,000 people but it has grown substantially due to Albanian migration from the countryside and from parts of southern Serbia.

[28] The Big Mosque of Mulla Veseli, built in 1891, and the St. Uroš Orthodox Cathedral[29] in the centre of Ferizaj are considered symbolic of religious tolerance between Muslim Albanians and Christian Serbs.

The Municipal Department of Education and Science has more than 1,680 professional and support staff, including 10 minority communities representatives.