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The Toptani family initially lived in [[Krujë]] before moving to [[Tirana]] during the 17th century, when many [[sipahi]]s moved from rural regions of the Ottoman Empire to cities.<ref name="Braudel1995">{{cite book|last=Braudel|first=Fernand|author-link=Fernand Braudel|title=The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LPp63EKb9moC&pg=PA724|year=1995|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-20330-3|page=724}}</ref> Their move from Krujë to Tirana probably contributed to the development of [[sharecropping]] in Albania.<ref name="Stoianovich1992">{{cite book|last=Stoianovich|first=Traian|author-link=Traian Stoianovich|title=Between East and West: The Balkan and Mediterranean Worlds|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jmtpAAAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=A.D. Caratzas|isbn=978-0-89241-501-4|page=26}}</ref>
The Toptani family possessed around 50,000 hectares near Tirana and [[Durrës]]<ref name="Roszkowski1995">{{cite book|last=Roszkowski|first=Wojciech|author-link=Wojciech Roszkowski|title=Land reforms in East Central Europe after World War One|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2BMEAQAAIAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences|page=51}}</ref> and remained one of the main landowners until the end of the [[Second World War]].<ref name="Oakley-HillSmiley2002">{{cite book|last1=Oakley-Hill|first1=Dayrell|last2=Smiley|first2=David|author-link2=David Smiley|title=An Englishman in Albania: memoirs of a British officer 1929-1955|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BfoJAQAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Centre for Albanian Studies|isbn=978-1-903616-20-8|page=228}}</ref>
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