Taushani family

[citation needed] Between 1812 and 1813, Abdullah Pasha, in the capacity of Sanjakbey of Elbasan[citation needed] (roughly equivalent to "district governor"), engaged in the process of the hygienization of the city by cleaning the water and sewage canals that originated from inside Elbasan Castle and finally depositing them in the Shkumbin river.

[3][need quotation to verify] Abduallah Pasha was also a member of the Ali Pashë Tepelena's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.

Other members of the Council included Myftar and Veli Pasha (Ali's sons), Xheladin bej Ohri and a number of his trusted men like Hasan Dervishi, Halil Patrona, Omar Vrioni, Meço Bono, Ago Myhyrdari, Thanas Vaja, Veli Gega (murdered by Katsantonis), and Tahir Abazi.

In a telegram sent to Ismail Bey Vlora, the signatories declared that "All the People of Elbasan, muslim and christian, in one voice, have accepted the Independence of Albania."

(“I gjithe populli i Elbasanit, myslimane dhe te krishtere, me nje ze kane pranuar Indipendencen e Shqiperise”).

Although we believe that you have come to Albania as our allies, your hurriedness and escorted removal of all marble busts, golden and bronx rings, and all the painted ceramics with mythological figures that are part of our national history, is unfair and unacceptable.

For their courageous act, the Albanian Monarchy and later, Socialist Albania, proclaimed the fallen officers "Deshmore te Monumenteve" (Martyrs of the Monuments).

See Si e perballoi Lushnja pushtimin Austro-Hungarez ne vitet 1916-1918 Described in the Memoirs of Eqrem Bey Vlora: "Zyber Bey Taushani (of the well known aristocratic family from Elbasan)...was a true knight who knew no fear, a true caballero, dressed in the picturesque Albanian national costume... [10] Members of this family were also part of the nobility of the city of Vlora.