Editing Korçë District (section)

=== 19th century === 
[[Yuriy Venelin]] (1802–1839) a Russian scholar who specialised in Bulgarian studies noted that the Korçë District in 1833 (at which point its boundaries were quite different from the modern district, including all of Devoll and various other differences) had 50 villages with two thirds being Muslim and a third being Christian.<ref name="Venelin80"/> Settlements of significance during that time were Moscopole, Vithkuq, Kamenicë, Floq, Boboshticë, Drenovë, Borje, Voskop and so on.<ref name="Venelin80"/> Houses of the area numbered a total of 2400 containing some 22,000 people according to the Ottoman census.<ref name="Venelin80"/> The Muslims and Christians of the region were noted as being "Albanians by nationality — speaking the same language, having the same customs" involved in agricultural employment, many unskilled and illiterate apart from those in Korçë and Moscopole that conduct trade.<ref name="Venelin80"/> The villagers of Moscopole were mainly Aromanians in addition to Greeks and Albanians,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Daskalov|first1=Roumen Dontchev|title=Entangled Histories of the Balkans – Volume One: National Ideologies and Language Policies|date=2013|publisher=BRILL|isbn=9789004250765|page=52|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FGmJqMflYgoC&pg=PA52|language=en|quote=Although there were also Albanians and Greeks in Moschopolis, the city was overwhelmingly Aromanian.}}</ref> while some Bulgarians living nearby.<ref name="Venelin80">{{cite book|last=Venelin|first=Yurii|chapter=In "Geographical Description of Albania" are indicated also places inhabited by Bulgarians (1833)|editor1-last=Kosev|editor1-first=Dimitŭr Konstantinov|editor2-last=Khristov|editor2-first=Khristo Angelov|title=Documents and materials on the history of the Bulgarian people|year=1969|publisher=Institut za istoriia (Bŭlgarska akademiia na naukite), House of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences|isbn=978-1135637354|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3D1pAAAAMAAJ|pages=80}} "The district of Korcha includes some 50 villages. One third of them are Christian, the others — Mohammedan. More important are Voskopol or Moskopol, Vitkuki, Kamenitsa, Flioki, Boboshtitsa, Drenovo, Borya, Boskopy and others. The total number of the houses is almost 2400 and the number of the inhabitants is 22,000, according to the royal census taken in that district. Both the Turks (the Moslems) and the Christians are Albanians by nationality — speaking the same language, having the same customs, illiterate and unskilled, poor farmers and shepherds, with the exception of the inhabitants of Korcha and Moskopol, who carry on some trade. The inhabitants of Voskopol are Walachians; there also are some Bulgarians in the vicinity."; p.83. "Юрий Венелин, Древние и нынешние болгаре (Yuril Venelin, Ancient and modern Bulgarians), Moscow, 1833, pp.2–3, 11–12; the original is in Russian."</ref>