Kičinica (Macedonian: Кичиница, Albanian: Kiçnicë) is a remote village in the municipality of Mavrovo and Rostuša, North Macedonia.

In the 1467/68 Ottoman defter Kičinica appeared as uninhabited, while in 1519 there lived 8 Christian families in the village.

[2] In the late 1890s Štilijan Čaparoski folklorist Panajot Ginoski, from Galičnik, Dolna Reka, maintained that Upper Reka inhabitants spoke a corrupted form of Albanian that was understood only by the locals, and contained a mixture of Slavic and Albanians words.

In a report titled "Through Southern Serbia : Under Šar and under Korab", the journalist writing about the village considers it as being populated by "Serbs who only speak Albanian".

However, Salihi notes that this identification is due to the fact that the local Albanians adhered to the Orthodox Christian church.