It was the site of the January 1999 Račak massacre, in which 45 villagers were killed by Serbian forces.

Noted in an Ottoman defter of 1487, the village was home to a monastery, consecrated in the name of Saints Cosmas and Damian.

By January 1999, about 350 people had returned to the village, according to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

On 16 January 1999, OSCE monitors found the bodies of 45 people in and around the village in what became widely known as the Račak massacre.

Following the incident, for which the international community blamed the Serbian military, the remaining population fled and did not return until the end of the Kosovo War in June 1999.