Ballaban

The source records traces of an earlier settlement at Livadhet e Çelit and Te Shpella e Gurit, where house foundations and worked stones were observed. Near the Ballaban stream, close to Batllava Lake, it also notes traces of an old church. Ballaban appears in written records in the 1455 register with four households. A register from 1487 records ten households, while the 1566–1574 cadastral register lists the settlement as Balaban with 18 households. The name also appears in Kosovo Vilayet yearbooks from 1893, 1896 and 1900.

After Albanians were expelled from Toplica and Jablanica in 1877–1878, Albanian muhajir families from those areas settled in Ballaban. Some later emigrated to Turkey. Between the two world wars, the source documents the settlement of nine Serbian and Montenegrin colonist families; they left during the 1960s after selling the land that had been allocated to them.

Construction of the Batllava dam caused the relocation of several families, especially from the lower part of the village. For 1999, the source records around 71 households and roughly 440 Albanian residents. During April of that year many houses were burned or damaged, the school was heavily damaged, two residents were killed, and the population was forced to leave, first towards Koliq and later towards Macedonia.