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tribe and that their annual death-rate from gunshot wounds was around double that of the other
Albanian tribes. According to Nopcsa's statistics compiled between 1894 and 1904, the Toplana had the highest percentage of violent deaths, at a percentage of 42.3%. George Gawrych notes that this was due
1352:; tradition holds that they were pushed out of the region following the arrival and expansion of the aforementioned tribe. The Toplana could trace their ancestry 13 generations back and thus Nopcsa argued that their forefather left Shllaku in ca. 1524 or earlier. The
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maintained that only a part of the
Toplana stemmed from the territory of Vasojevići and that, according to his estimations, their ancestors had arrived by ca. 1450. According to him, the majority of Toplana traces its patrilineal ancestry back to the
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who had also arrived earlier from
Montenegro, as well as to other patrilineages or brotherhoods who had arrived from outside of Toplana. Valentini also tells that a branch of the Toplana under
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Lee, Wayne; Lubin, Matthew & Ndreca, Eduard (December 31, 2013) . "Chapter Four: Archival
Historical Research". In Galaty, Michael; Lafe, Ols; Lee, Wayne & Tafilica, Zamir (eds.).
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as of 1918 from Franz Seiner. Toplana located in section 62, between
Dushmani, Shkreli, MĂ«rturi, and Berisha. Name does not appear on the map, but inside the legend.
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Petrishpan-ili. It subsequently appears in various maps and sources from the seventeenth century, such as in a relation of 1671-2 by
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1600:. Tiranë: Akademia e studimeve albanologjike. p. 500.
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to the south-east on the other side of the Drin, and the
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1611:Elsie, Robert (2015).
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1596:Luka, Kolë (2019).
1375:On the other hand,
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33:Part of a series on
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1778:Elsie 2015
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1566:References
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1226:River Drin
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