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Albanians were also mentioned in those areas before the Ottoman period:
In one of Nemanja’s charters giving property to Hilandar, 170 Vlachs are mentioned, located in villages around Prizren. When Dečanski founded his monastery of Dečani in 1330, he referred to ‘villages and katuns of Vlachs and Albanians’ in the area of the white Drin.[9] King Stefan Dečanski granted the Visoki Dečani monastery with pasture land along with Vlach and Albanian katuns around Drim and Lim rivers of whom had to carry salt and provide serf labour for the monastery[10]
Ujmir is a village in Klina municipality, Kosovo. It is located south of the Klina River.In the 1330 Chrysobulls of Dečani, the settlement is recorded as Ujnemir.[3][4][5][6][7][8] During the Colonization of Kosovo 14 Serb and Montenegrin families settled in Ujmir.[9]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UjmirThe name of the settlement translates to good water (Albanian: ujë-water, mirë-good).[1][2]
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