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The Janjevci as a specific group are one of two Roman Catholic South Slavic regional subgroups in Kosovo. The Janjevci are descended from traders who came to Kosovo in 14th century (earliest recorded date is 1303) from the Dubrovnik Republic, modern-day Croatia. They kept their Catholic religion and Croatian identity since then. Ever since 1974, they have been migrating from Kosovo to Croatia, during the process of Yugoslavia's disintegration and the Yugoslav wars.

In 1992, some inhabitants from Letnica (another Croatian village in Kosovo) emigrated to Croatia and settled in abandoned homes of Serbs in the villages of Vocin and Varešnica in western Slavonia. Their Serb inhabitants had previously fled due to the war in Croatia.

Many of the Janjevci settled in Serb homes in inner Dalmatia in 19961996 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty''. Events January January 5 Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone Jan, particularly the village of Kistanje which was abandoned in 19951995 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). It has a Golden number of 1, and was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995- 2005): http://www. org/culture/indigenous . Events January events Ja following Operation StormIn the summer 1995, Croatia carried out a large scale military operation called Oluja Storm the objective of which was to reclaim areas of Croatia held by rebel Serb forces. The operation officially lasted four days and effectively eliminated the wartime. After some of the Serbian refugees returned, the village became divided between two hostile communities. The Janjevci have since returned the Serbian houses to their owners and instead had houses built for themselves in a new part of Kistanje caled Novo Naselje (lit. New Settlement).

Before the Kosovo WarThe term Kosovo War or Kosovo Conflict is often used to describe two sequential and at times parallel armed conflicts (a civil war followed by an international war) in the southern Serbian province called Kosovo (officially Kosovo and Metohia), part of th began, there were 8,062 Janjevci in Kosovo. After it, only around 350 remained, the rest fled mostly to Croatia.