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Toptani Family
The Toptani were a leading Albanian nobility, noble family in central Ottoman Albania, 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 ''wikt:طوپ#Ottoman_Turkish , top,'' which means cannon, as the family owned a cannon at a time when artillery was rare. Estates The Toptani family initially lived in Krujë before moving to Tirana during the 17th century, when many sipahis moved from rural regions of the Ottoman Empire to cities. Their move from Krujë to Tirana probably contributed to the development of sharecropping in Albania. The Toptani family possessed around 50,000 hectares near Tirana and Durrës and remained one of the main landowners until the end of the Second World War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albania
Albania ( ; or ), officially the Republic of Albania (), is a country in Southeast Europe. It is located in the Balkans, on the Adriatic Sea, Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea, and shares land borders with Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, North Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south. With an area of , it has a varied range of climatic, geological, hydrological and morphological conditions. Albania's landscapes range from rugged snow-capped mountains in the Accursed Mountains, Albanian Alps and the Korab, Central Mountain Range, Albania#Skanderbeg Mountains, Skanderbeg, Pindus and Ceraunian Mountains, to fertile lowland plains extending from the Albanian Adriatic Sea Coast, Adriatic and Albanian Ionian Sea Coast, Ionian seacoasts. Tirana is the capital and largest city in the country, followed by Durrës, Vlorë, and Shkodër. Albania was inhabited by several List of Illyrian peoples and tribes, Illyrian tribes, among them the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durrës
Durrës ( , ; sq-definite, Durrësi) is the List of cities and towns in Albania#List, second most populous city of the Albania, Republic of Albania and county seat, seat of Durrës County and Durrës Municipality. It is one of Albania's oldest list of oldest continuously inhabited cities, continuously inhabited cities, with roughly 2,500 years of recorded history. It is located on a flat plain along the Albanian Adriatic Sea Coast between the mouths of the Erzen River, Erzen and Ishëm (river), Ishëm at the southeastern corner of the Adriatic Sea. Durrës' climate is profoundly influenced by a seasonal Mediterranean climate. Durrës was founded under the name of Epidamnos around the 7th century BC, by Ancient Greece, ancient Greek colonists from Corinth and Korkyra (polis), Corcyra in cooperation with the Taulantii, a local Illyrians, Illyrian tribe. Also known as Dyrrachium, Durrës developed as it became an integral part of the Roman Empire and its successor the Byzantine Em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toptani Family
The Toptani were a leading Albanian nobility, noble family in central Ottoman Albania, 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 ''wikt:طوپ#Ottoman_Turkish , top,'' which means cannon, as the family owned a cannon at a time when artillery was rare. Estates The Toptani family initially lived in Krujë before moving to Tirana during the 17th century, when many sipahis moved from rural regions of the Ottoman Empire to cities. Their move from Krujë to Tirana probably contributed to the development of sharecropping in Albania. The Toptani family possessed around 50,000 hectares near Tirana and Durrës and remained one of the main landowners until the end of the Second World War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qemoran Toptani
Qemoran Toptani (1912-1981) was an Albanian surgeon. She is often referred to as the first female Albanian surgeon. Biography Qemoran Fuat Toptani was born in Tirana in 1912. She was a member of the Toptani family, a noble family that remained one of the largest landowners in Albania until the end of World War II. She was the niece of Fuad Toptani. Qemoran Toptani attended primary school in Tirana, then secondary school in Vienna. She completed her post-secondary education in Rome. During the final years of the Second World War, Toptani returned to Tirana, where she worked as a doctor treated the wounded. She later worked at the Peshkopia Hospital in Peshkopi Peshkopi (; sq-definite, Peshkopia) is a town located in the mountainous regions of northeastern Albania, in Dibër County. It is the capital of both the county () and the district () of Dibër, and is the only county regional capital in Albania .... She was considered one of the best surgeons of the war in Albania. R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Refik Bej Toptani
Refik is a masculine given name of Arabic origin meaning friend, associate, husband, companion or fellow. It may refer to: *Refik Durbaş (1944–2018), Turkish poet, writer *Ahmet Refik Altınay (1881–1937), Ottoman historian, writer and poet *Refik Erduran (1928–2017), Turkish playwright, columnist and writer *Refik Halili, Albanian businessman *Refik Halit Karay (1888–1965), Turkish writer and journalist *Refik Kolić (born 1965), Bosnian folk music singer *Refik Koraltan (1889–1974, Turkish politician *Refik Kozić (born 1950), Yugoslav footballer *Refik Memišević (1956–2004), Yugoslav Olympian wrestler *Refik Resmja(1931–1997), Albanian footballer *Refik Šabanadžović (born 1965), Yugoslav footballer *Refik Saydam İbrahim Refik Saydam (8 September 1881 – 8 July 1942) was a Turkish people, Turkish physician, politician and the fourth Prime Minister of Turkey, serving from 25 January 1939 until his death on 8 July 1942. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadije Toptani
Sadije Toptani (Tirana, 28 August 1876 – Durrës, 25 November 1934) was queen mother of Albania from September 1928 until her death. She was the mother of Zog I of Albania. Biography Sadije (also spelled Sadijé, Sadiya or Khadija) was a member of the Toptani family. She was the daughter of Salah Bey Toptani (1843−1910) and his wife, Annijé Hanem Toptani (1855−1899), both members by birth of the Toptani family. She was also a cousin Essad Pasha Toptani. Toptani was the second wife of Xhemal Pasha Zogu after the death of his first wife, Zenja Melika Hanem. Also she was a descendant of Princess Mamica onicaof Krujë (a sister of Skanderbeg). After her son became king in 1928, Toptani was raised to the title ''Nëna Mbretëreshë e Shqiptarëve'', or Queen Mother of the Albanians, with the style of Her Majesty on September 1, 1928, a position she held until her death. She supervised the Royal Kitchen to ensure that her son could not be poisoned. She was the official prote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murad Toptani
Murad bej Toptani (13 July 1867 – 11 February 1918) was an Albanian poet, artist and activist of the Albanian National Awakening. Along with his relative Abdi Toptani he became one of the signatories of the Albanian Declaration of Independence in 1912. As a sculptor, Toptani created the first bust of George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, the national hero of Albania. Life Family He was born in 1867 in the Caucasus Mountains, where his father Seit Toptani was interned as a political prisoner. From 1875 to 1881, their family lived in Istanbul, capital of the Ottoman Empire, but they settled again in the Caucasus Mountains, where Seit was again interned because of his membership in the League of Prizren. In the early 1890, he studied in Istanbul, where he lived in Naim Frashëri's house. There he met his future wife Asije Frashëri, daughter of Sherif Frashëri, younger brother of Naim. In 1895, he married Asije Frashëri and moved to Tirana, where he later died, age 50&ndash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gani Toptani
Gani Bey, bej Toptani (185921 December 1898) was an Ottoman Albania, Ottoman Albanian officer and adjutant of Sultan Abdülhamid II. After a short military career in Ioannina, he was exiled to Harpoot, but was soon called to Constantinople to serve under Sultan Abdülhamid II as his personal bodyguard. He was the elder brother of Essad Pasha Toptani, who would later ascend as a political and military figure, both in the Ottoman Empire and later in independent Albania. Gani Toptani was killed in 1898 in the Pera district of Constantinople after a conflict that would cause political tension. Three years later, his brother Essad would also carry out an assassination attempt as revenge against Cavid Bey, a member of the Imperial Council (Ottoman Empire), Imperial Council and also the son of Grand vizier Halil Rifat Pasha, who is thought to have ordered Gani's assassination. Life Gani Toptani was born in 1859 in the so-called ''Saray (building), Sarajet e Toptaneve'' in the town of T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fuad Toptani
Fuad Toptani was an Albanian politician and mayor of Tirana from 1925 through 1927. He was a delegate in the Albanian Congress of Trieste The Albanian Congress of Trieste () was a congress of Albanians held in Trieste, Austria-Hungary in the period between 27 February – 6 March 1913, organized by Faik Konica and Sotir Kolea with strong support from the Austrian authorities. Dev ... of 1913. References 20th-century mayors of places in Albania Year of birth missing Year of death missing Mayors of Tirana Fuat {{Albania-mayor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essad Toptani (politician)
Essad Toptani (1863/1875 – 13 June 1920) was an Albanian politician who served as the third prime minister of Albania from 1914 to 1916. He previously established the Republic of Central Albania based in Durrës. An Ottoman army officer, he served as the Albanian deputy in the Ottoman Parliament and later cooperated with the Balkan League after the Balkan Wars. Biography Early life 
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Blendi Fevziu
Blendi Fevziu (born May 18, 1969, Tirana, Albania) is an Albanian journalist, writer and host of the TV talk show ''Opinion'', which first went on air on August 31, 1997. Fevziu graduated in literature and Albanian language at the University of Tirana in 1991. In 1989 he was part of the staff of the ''Student'' newspaper of the University. In December 1990 and February 1991 he was an active participant in the students' movement that brought the change of regime in Albania. On 5 January 1991 he was the co-founder of the Rilindja Demokratike ''(Democratic Rebirth)'' newspaper, the first free newspaper after almost 70 years of independent media blackout in Albania. Career in written press *Chief editor of "Koha Jonë" newspaper 1992 *Chief editor of "Aleanca" newspaper 1993–1996 *Co-chief editor of "Poli i Qendrës" newspaper 1996 *Editor of political news "Independent" newspaper 1997 *Editor of Klan Magazine 1996–2001 *Editor of "Korrieri" newspaper 2001–2005 *Editor of " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oppenheim Architecture
Oppenheim Architecture is an architecture, planning, and interior practice based in Miami, New York, and Basel founded in 1999 by Chad Oppenheim. The firm has received multiple distinctions, including over 45 AIA Awards. Projects range between hospitality, commercial mixed-use, retail, and residential buildings in over 25 countries. The firm is notable for designing L.A. Villa, film director Michael Bay's residence. In 2018, the practice received the National Design Award for Interior Design by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. History Oppenheim Architecture was established in 1999 by Chad Oppenheim. Oppenheim earned his B.Arch from Cornell University in 1994. Upon graduating, he worked at the Miami-based architecture and design firm Arquitectonica until 1999, when he departed to establish his own practice. Together with Beat Huesler, Chad Oppenheim opened the Basel office in 2009. Oppenheim Architecture New York opened in 2015. Selected projects * 2024 Desert Rock R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
