Toptani family
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toptani-family-164-3434361
title:
Toptani family
text:
The Toptani were a leading noble family in central Albania at the beginning of the 20th century. They belonged to a small number of noble families appointed by the Ottomans who used local chieftains to control Ottoman Albania more easily. Essad Pasha Toptani, a family patriarch, claimed that the family descended from the Thopia family. 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.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Noble family from Albania
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toptani_family
date created:
2014-10-24T22:13:11Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T16:39:38Z
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13
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