 In a 1582/83 "defter" (Ottoman tax registry), the Kuči "nahiya" had 13 villages, belonging to the Sanjak of Scutari.In the villages of the nahiya, names were majority Slavic, although Albanian were very common as well.This period marks the time where Albanian toponymy begins to be either translated into Slavic or acquire Slavic suffixes like in the village of Bardhani that begins to appears as "Bardič".