The village used to have a mixed Albanian-Serbian population. According to the 1991 census, it had 5,016 inhabitants.
Most of the village's Serb population left immediately after the withdrawal of the Yugoslav Army and Serbian police from Kosovo in June 1999. Only 25, mostly elderly, stayed behind. Twelve of the remaining villagers were abducted on 15 June 1999, six of whom were later confirmed killed and six of whom are still listed as missing.[2] All the remaining Serb houses were subsequently set on fire and most of their properties usurped. Since the war, the return of the village's former Serb inhabitants has been actively opposed by Kosovo Albanian groups.[3]
