Jonima family

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Jonima
Gjonima

Jonimis
Noble family
CountryMedieval Albania
Current regionA territory between Mat and Lezhë, including Shufada
Founded13th century
Members
Connected families Dushmani
Kastrioti
Zaharia

The Jonima (Albanian: Gjonima) were a noble Albanian family that held a territory around Lezhë (northern Albania), as vassals of Arbanon, Serbia and Ottoman Empire, active in the 13th to 15th centuries. The Jonima, like most Albanian noble families, were part of a fis or clan.[1] It is also said that they had close ties to the Kastrioti family.

Name and toponomy

The name appears in multiple forms in historical sources, such as Gonoma, Guonimi, Gjonëmi, Ghionoma, Giolma, Gionima, Gonome, Jonema, Jonoma etc. The term occurs widely in toponymy, albeit in considerably deformed versions, such as Quku i Gjormit of Xhani, Gjormi of Rrjolli, Brija e Gjormit of Gruemirë, Gjormi of Grizha to the north of Shkodër, Gjormi in Elbasan and Kodra e Gjormakvet in Dajçi of Zadrima. The form Gjonëmi can be found in Lurja and Luma, and Gjunumi is found near Dukat nearby Vlorë. Marin Barleti mentions Sylva Jonimorum in Kurbini, and Gjon Muzaka in 1510 mentions Guonyms in Kurbini; Gionami, Gionemi or Gionimi are also recorded in 1640 and 1671, also in Kurbini. These have been identified with the modern Gjolmi of Kurbini.[2]

The village of Gjonimi (modern-day Gjonëm) appears in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a hass-ı mir-liva and derbendci settlement in the vilayet of Akçahisar with six households, represented by: Ozgyr Primiqyri, Dhuka Lugras, Pal Gjonima, Gjergj Gjonima, Peter Koka, and Gjergj Gjonima.[3]

History

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As a personal name, Jonima already appears in 1204-1209 among the inscriptions of Demetrio d'Albano. The first member of the family itself was mentioned in sources dating to the early 13th century as a vassal of

Kastrioti family soon challenged the rule of the Dukagjini family over the territory between Mati and Drin.[8] In 1402, as part of the Albanian nobility that served as Ottoman vassals, Dhimitër Jonima fought alongside Bayezid I's forces at the Battle of Ankara.[9][10]

The Jonima family was linked to the Zaharia family and the Dushmani family.[11][how?] At the beginning of the 15th century Shufada (an important former marketplace on the Adriatic sea, near Lezhë) was a possession of the Jonima family before in 1428 it came under the control of Gjon Kastrioti.[12]

After Stefan Jonima, a former outlaw, asked the Venetian Senate to grant him his former possessions, he was awarded with control of the Kurtes village in 1445.[13]

A Zorzi and Piero, who were recorded in 1542, were

Lezha.[14]

Members

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

References

  1. ^ Edition de l'Académie bulgare des sciences (2007). Etudes balkaniques. Balkan Peninsula. p. 117.
  2. ^ Valentini, Giuseppe (1956). Il Diritto delle Comunità - Nella Tradizione Giuridica Albanese. Florence: Vallecchi Editore. p. 277.
  3. ^ Caka, Eduart (2019). Defteri i hollësishëm për zonat e dibrës i vitit 1467. Tiranë: Akademia e studimeve albanologjike instituti historisë. p. 27.
  4. ISBN 99927-1-622-3
    p. 267
  5. ^ 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)
  6. ISBN 3-486-56569--9
    , Vladislav Jonima, als Zupan, später als „Graf von Dioclea und Küstenalbanien"
  7. ISBN 99927-1-622-3
    p. 267
  8. ISBN 978-0-472-08260-5
    p. 391
  9. ISBN 978-0-472-08260-5
    p. 422
  10. ^ Valentini, Giuseppe (1956). Il Diritto delle Comunità - Nella Tradizione Giuridica Albanese. Florence: Vallecchi Editore. p. 277.
  11. ISBN 978-99927-770-1-5
  12. 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
  13. 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.
  14. ^ Valentini, Giuseppe (1956). Il Diritto delle Comunità - Nella Tradizione Giuridica Albanese. Florence: Vallecchi Editore. p. 277.

External links

  • 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.
  • Gjoni (Gjonaj) Origin from Lezhë
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