Gllogoc, treated in the volume as Rrafshori (Gllogofci), lies about 2 km southeast of Lipjan, on fertile lowland. At Kodra e Begut and in the southern part of the village, bricks, roof tiles, stones and old Christian graves have been found, indicating an earlier settlement.
A register from 1455 recorded 24 households, while the 1566–74 register recorded 22. An Austrian map based on information from 1689 includes the settlement, and late-19th-century yearbooks use the form Galofça. Albanian muhajir families settled here after the expulsions from the Sanjak of Niš in 1877–78, many later emigrating to Turkey in 1913–14. Three Slavic colonist families were settled in 1925.
In 1999 the village had around 210 houses and approximately 2,000 Albanian residents. Serbian forces burned 23 houses and auxiliary buildings, while a large part of the population left during the war.
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Source and further reading
Principal source: Prof. Dr. Jusuf Osmani, Vendbanimet e Kosovës 5 — Lypjani, Prishtinë, 2003.
Source entry: RRAFSHORI (Gllogofci)
This page presents a selected summary from the published study of the settlement. For complete archival references, family histories, microtoponymy and the full treatment, consult the original volume.