Pavlo Kurtik

Pavlo Kurtik (fl. 1431–1432, Albanian: Pal Kurti) was an Albanian or styled Slavo-Albanian feudal lord who held an Ottoman vilayet, an administrative unit in the Ottoman Empire similar to a county or shire, located between the Erzen and Shkumbin rivers in present-day Albania. While he was Christian, one of a few Christian lords in the Ottoman Empire, his sons converted in Islam and held various official titles throughout the Empire. He entered Ottoman service shortly after 1400, and was one of few pre-Ottoman, Christian feudal lords along with his brother Karl Kurti(k). In the 1431–1432 defter, Pavlo Kurtik held a timar of 26 villages subordinate to his son, Isa. Albanian historian Dhimitër Shuteriqi argued that the family originated from Krraba, and further theorised a connection to an 11th century nobleman named Vasil Kurtikios who had supported Alexios I Komnenos against the dux of Dyrrhachium.

Kurtik had the following descendants:

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