Bushati family
The Bushati (
Origins
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).[1] 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 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.[2]
The Bushati family traces their origin to the Begaj brotherhood of Bushati that had converted to
A century later, when the Albanian national movement was on the rise, yet another theory came forward. According to that theory, which Sami Frashëri recorded, the Bushati were descendants of the old feudal Dukagjini family.[5]
According to an official Albanian DNA project known as rrenjet
History
Their dominance of 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,
Bushati family tree
Mehmed Pasha | ||||||||||||||
Dervish Bey | Omer Bey | |||||||||||||
Sulejman Pasha Vali of Rumelia, 1115 AH | ||||||||||||||
Halil Pasha | Ali Bey | Hasan Pasha | Arslan Pasha | Deli Hysen Pasha | Kapudan Mehmed Bey | |||||||||
Mustafa Bey | Abdullah Pasha | |||||||||||||
Haxhi Sulejman Pasha | Mehmed Pasha Plaku | |||||||||||||
Mustafa Pasha Qorri | Ibrahim Pasha | Ahmed Pasha | Kara Mahmud Pasha | |||||||||||
Mehmed Pasha died in Tirana, in 1217 AH | ||||||||||||||
Sherif Mustafa Pasha | ||||||||||||||
Mahmud Pasha | Isuf Bey | Hasan Pasha | Riza Bey | |||||||||||
Xhelal Pasha | ||||||||||||||
List of prominent family members
- Süleyman Bushati, sanjak-bey of Scutari, noted for his wars against Montenegrins.
- Kara Mahmud Bushati, chief of Albanian tribe based in Shkodër, named governor of Shkodër by the Ottoman authorities.
- Ibrahim Bushati
- Mustafa Pasha Bushati
- Xhelal Pasha, Ottoman official and related to sultan Abdul Hamid II through marriage[9]
- Petrit Bushati, Senior Albanian Diplomat, Has served as Ambassador of Albania to Sweden, USA, Serbia & Montenegro
- Maliq Bushati, Prime Minister
- Sali Bushati, former member of the Assembly of Albania
- Astrit Bushati, member of the Assembly of Albania
- Ahmet Bushati, Chairman of Municipality Council of Shkodër 1992-1996
- Zogistactivist
- Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Ervin Bushati, Ambassador of Albania to the United States
See also
For the village in Kosovo also sometimes called Bushati, see
Sources
- Jazexhiu, Olsi (2002). The Albanian Pashalik of Shkodra under Bushatlis 1757 – 1831. Kuala Lumpur: IIUM. Archived from the original on 2015-06-27. Retrieved 2015-06-26.
- Blumi, Isa (2011). Reinstating the Ottomans: Alternative Balkan Modernities, 1800-1912. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-11908-6.
- Pllumi, Zef. Frati i Pashallarëve Bushatli të Shkodrës:(Át Erasmo Balneo):(1756-1788); kronikë e gojdhanë. Botime Françeskane, 2004.
- Stavri, N. Pashalleku i Shkodrës nën sundimin e Bushatllive në gjysmën e dytë të shekullit të XVIII, 1757–1796.(La Pachalik de Shkodër sous les Bushatli à la deuxieme moitié du XVIIIe siècle. Résumé.). 1964.
References
- ISBN 8881148455. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
- ^ Pulaha, Selami (1975). "Kontribut për studimin e ngulitjes së katuneve dhe krijimin e fiseve në Shqipe ̈rine ̈ e veriut shekujt XV-XVI' [Contribution to the Study of Village Settlements and the Formation of the Tribes of Northern Albania in the 15th century]". Studime Historike. 12: 87–89. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
- ^ Đoko M. Slijepčević (1983). Srpsko-arbanaški odnosi kroz vekove sa posebnim osvrtom na novije vreme. D. Slijepčević.
... упадима и организованим нападима Скадарскога везира Махмуд-паше Бушатлије. У кући Бушатлија чувала се традици- ја о њиховом пореклу од потурченога сина Ивана Црнојевића. «Та традиција о пореклу Бушатлија јачала ...
- ISBN 978-88-495-0742-3.
Bushatli, sicché in seguito i vizir albanesi di Bushatli pretesero di discendere dai Crnojevic
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