 At the same time, brotherhoods that were from Kući left the area whether as refugees from Ottoman punitive campaigns or simply as emigrants and settled further north, mostly in the Sandzak area, where many converted to Islam in the 17th and 18th century.A part of Gashi tribe of Kosovo has in its tradition that it moved from the area of Kuçi to Gashi in the first half of the 17th century.There also various oral traditions with varying degrees of consistency with archival records.