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Toptani family
Noble family from Albania / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Toptani were a leading noble family in central Albania at the beginning of the 20th century.[1] They belonged to a small number of noble families appointed by the Ottomans who used local chieftains to control Ottoman Albania more easily.[2] Essad Pasha Toptani, a family patriarch, claimed that the family descended from the Thopia family.[3] According to some sources, the name is derived from the word top, which means cannon, as the family owned a cannon at a time when artillery was rare.[4]
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Toptani | |
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Current region | Central Albania |
Place of origin | Krujë |
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Estate(s) | 50,000 hectares between Durres and Tirana |
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