Dušan T. Bataković, Kosovo and Metohija: living in the enclave, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute for Balkan Studies, 2007, p. 35, ISBN 9788671790529.
«Prior to the Second Serbo-Ottoman War (1877–78), Albanians were the majority population in some areas of Sanjak of Nis (Toplica region), while from the Serb majority district of Vranje Albanian-inhabited villages were emptied after the 1877–1878 war.»