It is located 1 km southwest of the town of Peshkopi, and is bisected by the Hot Springs Creek (Albanian: Përroi i Llixhave).

[1] The vast majority of residents are ethnic Albanians, with a small minority of Jevgs.

In the Ottoman period, the village was governed by beys and by families which were wealthy and renowned throughout the area.

One of them was the Hysenagolli family, holders of the title of Oxhakllëk ("hearthship"), which represented primacy and leadership of the entire Dibër region.

The family's descendants are now dispersed widely to places such as Peshkopi, Tirana, Macedonia and the USA.