The Alltuni were a wealthy and powerful Albanian feudal family at a time when the present day territory of Albania was under Ottoman rule.
They self-claimed to be the descendants of an unidentified Kapudan Pasha, a beylerbey and great admiral from Ulqin, who allegedly married a daughter of Sultan Ahmed I.
The Alltuni made alliances with the Bushatlliu family of Shkodër who later rebelled against the Sublime Porte.
In traditional literature, the Alltuni are mentioned in Gjergj Fishta's epic poem Lahuta e malcis (p. 227 – Te ura e sutjeskës).
[2] The origin of the "Alltuni" family name possibly derives from the Ottoman Turkish word altın which means golden.