Bobi was an Albanian tribe that lived in the Middle Ages. They were the anas (older, indigenous) tribe of the Shala valley, being gradually expelled by the modern Shala. The Bob (or Bop) tribe is more clearly distinguishable from other anas tribes of the region. It has only a few households that still exist in the Nicaj neighborhood of Shala. In the 1485 Ottoman cadaster of the sanjak of Shkodër the village of Pop is mentioned as one of the villages forming the nahija of Petrishpan. The village has 5 househoulds and could be an annual 250 ducats. The heads of the households were: Gjoni son of Xhuvan, Lukal son of Kabil, Lukan son of Stanisha, Marin son of Draniç as well as a certain Don Xhoni.The priest Pjetro Stefano Gaspari, wrote an extensive account of areas of Albania in 1671, notes t