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Jonima family
Connected familiesZaharia family and the Dushmani family
Estate(s)A territory between Mat and Lezhë, including Šufadaj

The Jonima family was a noble Albanian family from northern Albania that is often mentioned in the 13th through the 15th centuries AD in contemporary documents. In some sources members of this family are referred to as Gonoma, Guonimi, Gjonëmi or Ghionoma.

The first member of family mentioned in sources in the early 13th century as a vassal of Dhimitër Progoni in the Principality of Arbër.[1]

Another member of the family, Vladislav Jonima, is mentioned in sources in 1306, with the title of župan, while in service of Stephen Uroš II Milutin of Serbia.[2] A catholic, he was acknowledged by the Pope as a ruler of a territory around Lezhë in 1319. Vladislav Jonima had the title of Count of Dioclea and of the seaside Albania.[3]

This feudal family reappears in sources at the end of 14th century, when Dhimitër Jonima was lord of a territory between Mat and Lezhë.[4] In 1402, as an Ottoman vassal, together with other Albanian noblemen, he fought alongside Bayezid I forces, in the Battle of Ankara.[5]

Jonima family was linked with the Zaharia family and the Dushmani family.[6] At the beginning of the 15th century Šufaday (important former marketplace on the Adriatic sea, near Lezhe) was possesion of Jonima family before in 1428 it was under control of Gjon Kastrioti.[7]

After Stefan Jonima, a former outlaw, asked Venetian Senate to grant him his former possessions he was awarded with control of Kutres village in 1445.[8]

Names of other notable members of this family include: Vito, Vikt, John, Bitri, Marin, Florio, Fior and Guido.

References

  1. ^ Anamali, Skënder; Prifti (2002) (in Albanian). Historia e popullit shqiptar në katër vëllime. Botimet Toena. ISBN 99927-1-622-3 p.267
  2. ^ Blagojević, Miloš (2001). Državna uprava u srpskim srednjovekovnim zemljama (in Serbian). Belgrade: Službeni list SRJ. p. 210. Retrieved 8 July 2012. Када је краљ Милутин издао повељу манастиру Богородице Ратачке, међу присутнима је било и црквених и световних достојанственика. Од световних лица помињу се: казнац Мирослав, челник Бранко и жупан Владислав (Јонима)
  3. ^ Schmitt, Oliver Jens (2001), Das venezianische Albanien (1392-1479), München: R. Oldenbourg Verlag GmbH München, p. 87, ISBN 3-486-56569--9, Vladislav Jonima, als Zupan, später als „Graf von Dioclea und Küstenalbanien" {{citation}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |doi_inactivedate= (help); More than one of |author= and |last= specified (help)
  4. ^ Anamali, Skënder; Prifti (2002) (in Albanian). Historia e popullit shqiptar në katër vëllime. Botimet Toena. ISBN 99927-1-622-3 p.267
  5. ^ The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest Author John Van Antwerp Fine Edition reprint, illustrated Publisher University of Michigan Press, 1994 ISBN 0-472-08260-4, ISBN 978-0-472-08260-5 p. 422
  6. ^ Serbët dhe Shqiptarët: historia e shqiptarëve të veriut. (Serbs and Albanians: history of North Albanians) Author Shuflaj, M. 2001 Tiranë Bargjini ISBN 978-99927-770-1-5
  7. ^ Detelić, Mirjana (2007), Dušan T. Bataković (ed.), Epski gradovi, leksikon (in Serbian), Belgrade: Balkanološki institut SANU, p. 253, ISBN 9788671790406, OCLC 298613010, U blizini Lješa postojalo je trgovište Šufadaj ili Sufade čiji položaj danas nije moguće tačno utvrditi. Taj strateški važan trg blizu mora (budući daje bio dostupan brodovima) Venecija nije kontrolisala, iako je držala zemljišni pojas od Skadra do Lješa, uz Dračsa okolinom. Šufadaj je početkom XV v. bio u vlasti porodice Jonima, a 1428. u vlasti Jovana Kastriota {{citation}}: More than one of |author= and |last= specified (help); Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  8. ^ Božić, Ivan (1979), Nemirno pomorje XV veka (in Serbian), Beograd: Srpska književna zadruga, p. 291, OCLC 5845972, Тада је Стефан Јонима, некадашњи одметник, тражио од Сената стара права и успео да добије 1445. једино село које је остало слободно — Куртес. {{citation}}: More than one of |author= and |last= specified (help)
  • Fior Jonima: A Ravaged Land, 1470 - Response of Fior Jonima to the Venetian tax authorities who had inquired of him as to why so little revenue had been arriving from Albania.