 Among other terms, Muslims were identified as "turq" or "turkollarë" ("Turks").Apart from being associated with Muslim Albanians, in some specific works the term "Turco-Albanian" was used to mention the Labs (), a socio-cultural and dialectal Albanian subdivision, some of whom had converted to Islam during the Ottoman Empire era.In a broader sense the term "Turco-Albanian" was used to denote Ottoman military units and elites of both Turkish and Albanian ethnicity that represented the Ottoman administration of the Balkans.