Arianiti

Arianiti was an Albanian noble lordship along the Shkumbin valley and the Via Egnatia, with a stronghold at Sopot.

After Ottoman conquests cost the family its eastern estates, Gjergj Arianiti won repeated victories over Ottoman armies from 1430. He joined the League of Lezhë in 1444 and gave his daughter Donika to Skanderbeg in marriage in 1451. Later family members entered Ottoman service or settled in Italy.