Badoc lies about 10 kilometres southeast of Prishtina and today belongs to the municipality of Gračanica. The source describes it as a compact settlement and connects the locality with very early layers of habitation.
According to archaeological evidence cited in the volume, four stone axes found at Badoc were dated to the Proto-Neolithic, in the seventh millennium BCE, while a necropolis from the 10th–11th centuries was also identified. The author uses these finds to underline the antiquity of settlement at the site. Ottoman records from 1566–1574 mention the forms Dolina Badofç and Gorna Badofç, the latter recorded with eight households. Badoc also appears on an Austrian map based on information from 1689 and in Kosovo Vilayet yearbooks from 1893, 1896 and 1900.
Following the expulsion of Albanians from the Sanjak of Niš in 1877–1878, the source records the arrival of several Albanian muhajir families in Badoc. In 1913 these families moved to Turkey or Prishtina, while Serbian families from other parts of Kosovo were settled here. The figures cited by the author show a marked fall in population between 1912 and 1921.
From the mid-1980s, following concerns over waste from the Kishnica flotation works, the authorities built a new residential area between Guranë–Shushicë and Gračanica, which became known as New Badoc. According to the source, the older Badoc locality subsequently became uninhabited.
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Source and further reading
Principal source: Prof. Dr. Jusuf Osmani, Settlements of Kosovo, Volume 1.
Source entry: BADOCI
This page presents only a selected part of a much broader published study of the settlement. For detailed archival references, family histories, microtoponymy and the full treatment of the settlement, consult the original volume.