members article_title estate origin name colour region
essad fuat toptani pasha toptani abdi toptani sadijé toptani murat toptani toptani family
 50,000 hectares between durres and tirana kruje toptani family powderblue central albania
toptani family

the toptani family was the leading albanian noble family in the central ottoman albania at the beginning of the 20th century .
the toptani family beloned 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 head of the family at the beginning of the 20th century , claimed that his family descend from the thopia family .
according to some sources the name of this family is derived from the word `` top '' which mean a canon , because his family owned a canon when artillery was rare .
