In recent years, some people have started to rebuild their houses and a small number of former villagers have decided to resettle in Baljci.

Baljci was founded during the 16th century by vlachs coming from Eastern Herzegovina,[3] who essentially belonged to the Mirilovići clan.

[4] These people, who were of Serbian Orthodox faith, were settled there by the Turks after the previous population had almost entirely fled to the Republic of Venice and the Kingdom of Hungary.

[3] The name of the village itself was probably chosen in reference to Baljci in Herzegovina, from where some of the new settlers came from, as for the neighboring settlement of Mirilović, today known as Mirlović Polje.

Under this former settlement name, Baljci was included in the Ottoman nahiye of Petrovo Polje, itself part of the Sanjak of Klis.

[8] However, in 1849, Orthodoxy was recognized as an official cult of the Austrian empire, an event which prevented further mass conversions to Greek Catholicism.

Uniates from Baljci started either to convert back to Orthodoxy or to migrate to larger cities of Dalmatia and Slavonia.

In the decades following World War II some people from Baljci migrated to Serbia, were they settled mainly in Šid.

Following the Operation Storm, in August 1995, the village became uninhabited after the Serbian population fled to Serbia and all their houses were looted, burned and destroyed.

[11] Damaged during the war, the Orthodox church was restored in 2006 thanks to a donation from former NBA player Dragan Tarlać, whose ancestors were from Baljci.

They come from people from Baljci, called Morlachs by the Venetians, who went to Šibenik to sell their products and buy merchandises unavailable in the Dalmatian Hinterland.

These two cadastres explain the origin of most of Baljci's families, with the exceptions of the Bašić, Gutić, Janković, Mudrić, Tetek and Tošić.