Shpenadi was mentioned as an Arbanas (Albanian) settlement in a medieval document from 1348.[2][3] The village Shpenadi is also mentioned in the Ottoman defter of 1591 as 'Shpinadija'.[2]
Malcolm, Noel (1999). Kosovo: a short history. New York: HarperPerennial. ISBN0-06-097775-2. OCLC41603542. And Dusan's chrysobull of 1348 for the Monastery of the Holy Archangels in Prizren mentions a total of nine Albanian katuns