The Bushati family ( Albanian : Bushatllinjtë ) is an Albanian Muslim family that ruled the Pashalik of Scutari from 1757 to 1831.
7-417: They are descendants of the medieval Bushati tribe, a pastoralist tribe ( fis ) in northern Albania and Montenegro.The name Bushat is compound of mbë fshat (above the village). This is a reference to them being pastoralists that weren't permanently settled. The Bushati started to settle permanently in the 15th century and this process had been completed in the late 16th century. Their settlement includes
14-465: Is one of the three NUTS-2 Regions of Albania . This ethnographical territory is sometimes referred to as Ghegeria ( Albanian : Gegëria ) which also includes parts of the Albanian-inhabited territories of Kosovo , Montenegro , North Macedonia and Serbia . It consists of the counties of Dibër , Durrës , Kukës , Lezhë and Shkodër . Their combined population is 991,093 as of
21-484: The 2023 census. The northeastern mountain regions have substantial reserves of metallic mineral deposits, including chromium , copper , and iron-nickel . In the 1980s Albania was a world leader in chromium production, but output fell precipitously in the early 1990s during the political transition from communism. The term usually denotes to the northern half of the country inhabited by the Ghegs , who predominantly live in
28-512: The Begaj brotherhood of Bushati that had converted to Islam possibly in the early 17th century. To promote their status and political goals statesmen, commanders and leaders from that family put forward different theories about their origins. Turkish traveller Evliya Çelebi in his time recorded a story about them being descendants of a Jusuf Bey Plaku, who traced his origin and status to the era of Mehmed II ( r. 1444–1446, 1451–1481 ). In
35-736: The Shkodër region was gained through a network of alliances with various highland tribes. Even after the fall of the pashalik in 1831, the Bushatis continued to play an important role in Albanian society. During the 19th century, Shkodër was also known as a cultural centre and in the 1840s the Bushati library was built. For the village in Kosovo also sometimes called Bushati, see Komorane . Northern Albania Northern Albania ( Albanian : Shqipëria Veriore )
42-573: The period of the Pashalik of Shkodra , Kara Mahmud sought to expand northwards in the old lands of Ivan Crnojević of the Middle Ages. In order to legitimize and strengthen his claim, he put forward another theory that he descended from Skenderbeg Crnojević , Ivan's Muslim son. Albanian writer Sami Frashëri asserted that the Bushati family were descendants of the Dukagjini family . Their dominance of
49-551: The village of Bushat in Shkodër in the Zadrima plain from where the Bushati family came. Another part settled with the tribe of Bukumiri in the would-be territory of the Piperi tribe, where they gradually became part of the new, larger tribe in the late 16th century. In the defter of 1497 they appear as katun Bushat in Piperi with 35 households. The Bushati family traces their origin to
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