Boboshticë (; , Boboshtitsa; , Boboštica) is a village in the former Drenovë Municipality of the Korçë County in southeastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Korçë. Name The name of the village is a Slavic toponym, recognizable with the Slavic suffix ice. History According to legend, the village was founded by Polish settlers left behind after a Crusade. It is believed that the local church of Saint John the Forerunner was most probably built in the 13th century and it was rebuilt and expanded later. In 1503 a new church in the monastery St. Nicholas near to the village was built on whose western wall, in a Greek language inscription the slavic names of donors were mentioned - Bogdan, Chelko, Valcho and Telche, and the paintings were a donation of Petros Chartophylax. Sultan Bayezid II donated the area to Mirahor (General of Cavalry) Iljas Bey. The village was transformed in 1505 in an evaladiet-type waqf (religious trust). By the late 18th century, with the spread of çiflik-type feudalism instead of the military feudalism inside the Ottoman Empire, many villages of the area were transformed into çiflik. Ali Pasha Tepelena turned Boboshticë as such in 1817, while the adjacent village of Drenovë was turned in 1814. With the demise of Ali Pasha, the Ottoman Porte confiscated from his domains over 1000 çifliks, between others Boboshticë and Drenovë, and turned them into imlak (imperial çiflik). They remained such even after the Tanzimat reforms and other agrarian laws. The economical situation of the villagers degraded a lot during the 19th century, far worse than what it used to be in the old system of timar. They were obliged to pay the Ashar in addition to other ordinary and extraordinary taxes. By the end of the 19th century, immigration to Romania and Bulgaria became a widespread phenomenon. Other families had migrated even before, i.e. Gerasi family completely left when Ali Pasha took over. According to some sources, nearly half of the villagers emigrated to Wallachia during the rule of Ali Pasha. The village was internally ruled by a "council of elders" led by a person from one of the richest families, referred as Kodjabashis. In 1823, for unclassified reasons, Boboshticë suffered a high level of mortality. 23 people are recorded to have died from the nearby monastery of St. Nicholas (Alb: Shën Kollit), while 325 in