Bushati family

Their settlement includes the village of Bushat in Shkodër in the Zadrima plain from where the Bushati family came.

To promote their status and political goals statesmen, commanders and leaders from that family put forward different theories about their origins.

Turkish traveller Evliya Çelebi in his time recorded a story about them being descendants of a Jusuf Bey Plaku, who traced his origin and status to the era of Mehmed II (r. 1444–1446, 1451–1481).

In the period of the Pashalik of Shkodra, Kara Mahmud sought to expand northwards in the old lands of Ivan Crnojević of the Middle Ages.

In order to legitimize and strengthen his claim, he put forward another theory that he descended from Skenderbeg Crnojević, Ivan's Muslim son.