Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Has (region)" in English language version.
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If, as seems likely, some of these chiefs had been summoned by Bogdani, we might expect them to have included the leaders of Catholic clans in the nearby parts of the Malési; and, indeed, an Ottoman document written in February 1690 (just three months later) does refer to a large group of mostly Catholic clans from that area (including the warlike Fandi) who had allied themselves with the Austrians."° But the pledged total of 20,000 may well have included other Albanians from areas close to Prizren who were no longer Catholic, having been converted to Islam within the previous two or three generations—for example, the Shulla or Has region, where, as Pjetér Mazrreku reported in 1634, there had previously been 50 Catholic parishes but were now only five."" Mazrreku also noted that the conversion to Islam was quite superficial; in 1671 another report on this area stated that '28 years ago there were very many Christians [sc. Catholics]: now there remain 300 women and very few men, the rest having abjured their faith in order to escape impositions and taxes.
