The nobility of Albania (Bujaria or Fisnikeria shqiptare) is a class families that could be called fundamental. Very heterogeneous in its composition, it has historically constituted a process that has seen aggregate both elements from the traditions of the country - the heads of the main Albanian clans - and external inputs indebted to foreign powers dominated the Albanian territory over time. There has been an Albanian nobility of Roman origin, then Byzantine, Venetian and Ottoman Anjou. Conversely, Albania has not that import the noble galaxy abroad: it also has exported a number of large families and some countries with their nobility. Ghika princes of Wallachia, the main noble families of Hydra, the Greek Epirus and Morea, several large families of Greek independence, the Royal House of Egypt or the dynasty of grand viziers Koprulu are old Albanians. Historical upheavals Albania has been since the end of antiquity have not ceased caused rifts different noble fabrics, but also led to reconstitution. If the great Byzantine nobility, Venetian or Anjou defeats were due to multiple factors, their land and human potential has not disappeared. Despite invasions and breakthrough of Islam from the seventeenth century, the Albanian clans who had provided the Middle Ages, the quotas of the old nobility, came to the front of the stage and regained some of their historical centrality . At the same time, tribal decomposition and the beginnings of Albanian migration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, created the conditions for the emergence of powerful phratries, themselves divided into large families. Who left their homeland, never cut ties with their relatives in Albania, various moieties or families, including Orthodox religion, gained Constantinople at the end of the eighteenth century to make a fortune. Protection was provided by the privileged status of Romaïon (Roum-milet) that the Sultan had granted from 1456 to Orthodox Christians refugees under the protective wing of the Greek Patriarch of Constantinople. These Albanian Orthodox families were joined by large Muslim Albanian families who served the Sublime Porte in the army, administration and diplomacy and contributed so powerfully, from 1878 to 1912 to the emergence of the Albanian nation . Most of the fathers of independence of Albania, which occurred in November 1912 are from these core families are Vlora, the Vrioni the Toptani the Zog, the Frasheri the Libohova the Turtulli, etc. ., as most writers of the nineteenth century Albanian language. These same families monopolized, from 1912 until the establishment of the communist dictatorship in 1946, the countrys leadership. One of them, the House of Zog, Albania acceded to the throne in 1928 and became a sovereign family. The date 1928 is also to be taken as an ad quem term of the constitution of the great historical families in Albania. The kingdom of Zog will not include the emergence of other and rely on those that already play a major role in political and cultural history of the country.almanachdegotha.org/id205.html
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 18:52:38 +0000
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