Boboshticë (Aromanian: Bubushtitsa; Bulgarian: Бобощица, Boboshtitsa; Macedonian: Бобоштица, Boboštica) is a village in the former Drenovë Municipality of the Korçë County in southeastern Albania.
[5] 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.
[citation needed] The village was internally ruled by a "council of elders" led by a person from one of the richest families, referred as Kodjabashis.
23 people are recorded to have died from the nearby monastery of St. Nicholas (Albanian: Shën Kollit), while 325 in total from the area.
[9] In 1873 the residents of Boboshtica wrote a request to the Bulgarian Exarch Antim I, written in Greek letters in the local dialect.
The community distributed financial obligations (debentures) written in Bulgarian, Romanian, and Greek in order to facilitate the fund-raising.
In his memoirs, written in Greek, Canco defined the local villagers as Orthodox Christians who speak a Bulgarian dialect.
Andre Mazon, an expert in Slavic studies, has published an exceptional source of information in his Documents slaves de l'Albanie de Sud, II, pieces complemetaires (Paris, Institut d'Etudes Slaves, 1965), for which Bulgarian scholar Maria Filipova made the translation from Greek to French.
[23] Mazon also published seventeen correspondence letters written by Mihal Kuneshka, a villager, dating back to the late 19th century.
Mazon included as well sixteen letters written in French by Victor Efitimiu, which describe old legends and oral traditions leading to the village's assumed origin, as well as much third-party information from other authors.
During the late 2000s linguists Klaus Steinke and Xhelal Ylli carried out fieldwork, seeking to corroborate information about villages cited in past literature as being Slavic-speaking.
[29] During the early 1960s Aromanians settled in Boboshticë, which resulted in an ethnic and linguistic change of demographics of the population in the village.
[29] In the 2010s, only one elderly women remains in Boboshticë who is a speaker of the village's local Macedonian dialect called Kajnas (of us).
The monasteries had dedicated guest rooms for hosting pilgrims from other areas of the Balkans during religious feasts and events.
[8] Saint Nicholas was a stauropegic monastery, it was destroyed during the atheistic policies by the authorities of the People's Republic of Albania, but now has been restored.