The paper focuses on smelteries as a factor influencing settlement in a region of the medieval mine of Novo Brdo in the sancak of Vučitrn (Vılçitrn). It aims to determine the number of smelters’ villages and to analyse their dynamics, especially in the context of the rise and fall of mining production. Based on an analysis of the 15th and 16th-century tapu tahrir defters of the abovementioned area, it will be shown that the number of smelters’ villages was much larger than would appear from an examination of previous studies. They were assembled in very small nahiyes created in accordance with the metallurgical production, not the geographical features of the territory concerned, as was usual. Their inhabitants were more often than not of diverse ethnic origins and religious affiliations.