 As in this area, pastoral mountainous communities ("katund") like Hoti retained their territorial cohesion throughout this period of continuous warfare, they came to absorb adjacent territory of non-pastoral communities.Venetian documents about the pronoia (grant) that the Hoti tribe was given over a few villages in the Shkodra area provide some more information about the early stages of this process.In the early 20th century, about 12 "Anas" families remained patrilineally.