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17-605: Shoshi may refer to: Shoshi , a historical tribe (fis) and region of northern Albania Shosh, Albania , village of northern Albania and historical center of that region People with the surname [ edit ] Kazuharu Shoshi ( 所司 和晴 , born 1961) , Japanese shogi player Lis Shoshi (born 1994), Kosovan basketball player Maringlen Shoshi (born 1987), Albanian footballer Zef Shoshi , Albanian painter See also [ edit ] Princess Shōshi (disambiguation) Empress Shōshi (988-1074) Topics referred to by

34-468: A distinction in the region of possessing a legendary boulder associated with Lekë Dukagjini, Gur' i Lek's , who supposedly stayed in that location. According to local tradition, it was to Shoshi that Lekë Dukagjini, came fleeing from Rashia. The patron Saint of the Shoshi is Saint Cyriacus (Shën Qurk), whose feast day is commemorated on 12 or 15 July. The religion of the tribe is entirely Catholic , in

51-430: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Shoshi (tribe) Shoshi is a historical Albanian tribe ( fis ) and region of northern Albania in the lower Shala valley . Shoshi is first recorded as a small settlement in 1485. The fis itself traces its origin to the brothers Gjol and Pep Suma. The community of their descendants gradually grew to control part of

68-891: The Dukagjin highlands . In the 19th century Shoshi also became a bajrak . The Shoshi region stands in north-western Albania , in Shkodër County . It stands about 52 km away from the city of Shkodra . In terms of regional boundaries, Shoshi stands south of Shala , north of Shllaku , west of Toplana and Dushmani and east of Kiri . The historical settlements of Shoshi are: Ndreaj, Brashtë, Pepsumaj, Pepaj, Shosh-Nicaj, Gjolaj, Ndregjinaj, Cilkok, Gjoshaj, Palaj, Pepsumaj, Gjocaj, Pylaj, Gurri i Lekës, Pilotaj, Shosh-Gurrë, Dardhë, Balzë, Mollë. Gjocaj (Autumn of 2000), Mollë (December 2001), Pepsumaj (December 2004), Brashtë (December 2005), Pylotaj (October 2006), Gjoshaj (November 2008), Ndregjinaj (December 2008) are uninhabited (in brackets

85-450: The Buna river appears under two names Shul Prekala or Gjergj Bardhi. A branch of Prekali was on the process of becoming a feudal family in the early 15th century. For example, in the 1416-17 cadaster one of them Petro Prekali appears as ducal citizen of Balec . Others in the cadaster appear as pronoiars recognized by Venice in villages of the area. Many others lived in villages throughout

102-600: The Shoshi tribe made a besa (pledge) to support the document and to stop blood feuding with other tribes until November 6. During the Albanian revolt of 1911 in negotiations with the Ottomans an amnesty was reached for the rebels with a pledge by the government that education in Albanian would be allowed and one to two primary schools in the nahiye of Shoshi and pay the wages of teachers allocated to them. Shoshi had

119-513: The area maintains that the ancestor of Shoshi was a Mark Diti , son of Dit Murri and grandson of a Murr Dedi . Mark Diti's brother, Zog Diti , was the progenitor of the Shala tribe , and his other brother, Mir Diti , was considered to be the ancestor of the Mirdita tribe. In the best known tradition, these three brothers came to the area from Pashtrik of Gjakova mountain in western Kosovo, on

136-453: The date of final emigration from these settlements). These form the Shosh administrative unit of the municipality of Shkodër . Until 2015, Shosh was a municipality ( bashki ) in itself. The village of Prekal (linked with the medieval Prekali tribe), about 9 km to the south-west of it is sometimes grouped under Shoshi because most of its families come from Shoshi. An oral tradition in

153-556: The defter of the Sanjak of Scutari in 1485 as a small village in the nahiye of Petrishpan-ili with four households headed by Gjon, son of Duka . In the village, one of the households was that of the Catholic cleric Dom Nikolla Bizi . Catholic bishop Shtjefën Gaspari passed through the region in 1671. In his account, Sosi had 30 households and 250 inhabitants. In 1786, Shoshi had not yet been fully established as tribal territory as

170-637: The first reliable census taken in Albania in 1918, the population of the Shoshi were 1,293 inhabitants. Prekali Prekali was an Albanian tribe of the Middle Ages. Their origin was probably in the Dukagjin highlands of northern Albania . Since the 16th century, the Prekali tribe gradually became part of other communities in that region. Prekali was a community based on kinship ties that can be traced back to one progenitor. In that sense, it

187-600: The modern Albania-Kosovo border. Their settlement then began from south to north, from Mirdita northwards to the lower and upper Shala valley. The historical figures who are recorded as the forefathers of all Shoshi today are the brothers Gjol and Pep Suma. They are linked to oral tradition as descendants of Mark Diti. They had the surname Suma as they grew up in the Suma from where their mother originated. An alternative theory maintains that they were actually patrilineally descended from Suma. Shoshi appears in historical record in

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204-469: The patronymic Prekali, an indication that the villages were communal settlements of this tribe. The village of Gaduçi was also mostly inhabited by this tribe. Prekali nën shkallë, headed by pronoiar Jonema Prekali was near the Buna river between the villages of Pentari and Luarzë. Prekali in the mountains ( Prekali në mal ) headed by Andrea Prekali was on the right bank of the river. Gaduçi headed by Gjin Prekali

221-482: The region south of Shkodra . The Ottoman conquest of the country stopped this feudalization process and as many in northern Albania, their community underwent a retribalization of social relations. In this period, the village Prekal appears which still exists today on the banks of the river Kir in the municipal unit of Postribë . Of the five brotherhoods of this village, the Lekçaj (also known as Ulqaj) are descendants of

238-543: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Shoshi . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shoshi&oldid=1018207506 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Japanese-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles containing Japanese-language text Short description

255-585: The village of Shosh, Brashta and also Prekali, appear as distinct settlements that are grouped together, but not part of the same territory. The three villages at that time had 189 households with 1013 inhabitants. Shoshi remained one of the exclusively Catholic tribes throughout the Ottoman period After the Young Turk Revolution (1908) and subsequent restoration of the Ottoman constitution ,

272-415: Was a bashkësi (union of brotherhoods), but not a fis , as for a tribe to be a fis it has to have exclusive communal property rights in a given territory, which is part of their hereditary community. Their name comes from the Albanian personal name Preka . In the cadaster of Venetian Shkodra , there were two villages named Prekal on the modern Albania-Montenegro border and most of their inhabitants held

289-412: Was near Velipoja in the settlement of Malkolaj. In the defter of the Sanjak of Scutari in 1485 Prekali appears spread throughout the lands north-east of Shkodër and Drisht . The village of Gur i Zi in which the tribe held property in 1416, appears as also having the name Prekal in 1485, an indication of their settlement there. A century later, in the defter of 1582, their village near the plains of

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