Hoti

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Hoti, Pakistan

Hoti (Urdu: ہوتی ), pronounced Oothay in Pukhto, is a union council in Mardan District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. The town is located at 34°12'0N°, 72°4'0E at an altitude of 284 metres (935 feet) and lies just west of Peshawar, the capital of the province, and is inhabited by the Kamalzai Pashtuns, a sub-tribe of the Mandanh.

The people of this area only speak Pukhto, and the adhere strongly to the Pukhtoon traditions of hospitality and loyalty.

Although the MPs are democratically elected in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the old feudal system is still strong in Hoti. The head of the leading feudal family is Mohammad Ali Khan Hoti, a former education minister of Pakistan. M sarfaraz khan hoti a owner of msk group and political activest.

Livelihood and demographics

The main livelihood for the Hoti people is agriculture, and they process and export sugarcane to the rest of the country.

The Hoti area is divided by the Kulpani River. The family of the ex-Nawab of Hoti lives on the Mardan side, whereas the Hoti areas across the river are still developing. The major cash crops of the area are tobacco and sugarcane. Virginia tobacco is mostly utilized by the local cigarette manufacturers while the major yield of sugarcane is consumed by the Premier Sugar Mill (established in 1954 by Hindu businessman Seth Ishwar Das). As an old tradition, some of the sugarcane is used locally to make jaggery (Gur in local Pukhto).

Hoti (tribe)

Hoti is a Northern Albanian tribe and a historical tribal region of Malësia, located in northern Albania and southern Montenegro.

History

Middle Ages

The earliest known historical reference to the Hoti tribe was recorded in 1330, while in 1474 their region was mentioned in Latin sources as montanea ottanorum (English: Mountain of the Hotis).

Before 1421, much of what is today known as "Malësia" was incorporated into the Lordship of Zeta ruled by the powerful Balšić family. According to the local oral history, in 1412-13, the Hoti tribe was engaged in a major dispute over the possession of grazing lands with the neighboring Mataguži tribe. Balša III was called to mediate the dispute. When he decided in favour of the Mataguži, the Hoti tribe attacked the Mataguži and took over the disputed areas. Shortly thereafter, a Mataguži counter-attack claimed the lives of four Hoti clansmen. After a long history of conflict with both the Ottomans and their (sometime) Venetian allies, the Balšići went extinct in 1421, after which the area came under control of Stefan Crnojević who fixed his capital at Žabljak on the north-eastern side of Lake Scutari and joined with his relative, the famous Scanderbeg, in many campaigns against the Turks.