Koja Zaharia
Koja Zaharia , also Koja Zakaria , ( Italian Coia Zaccaria ; * in the 14th century ; † before 1442 ) was an Albanian nobleman from the family of the Zaharia .
Surname
Documents from the Republic of Ragusa mention the given name Kojčin or Gojčin . That is why historians such as Nicolae Iorga , Ludwig Thallóczy and Konstantin Jireček ascribed the person to Gojčin Crnojević for a long time . It was only Robert Elsie who changed that and identified the person as Koja Zacharia or Koja Zakarija.
Life
Until 1395 Koja Zaharia was castellan of Sati Castle near Shkodra , which belonged to a fiefdom of Konstantin Balšić and was part of the principality of Zeta under Đurađ II. Balšić . In 1395 Balšić Sati (with Dagnum) as well as Shkoadra and Drivast ceded to the Republic of Venice in order to create a buffer zone between his principality and the Ottoman Empire. Zaharia refused to allow the Venetians to control Sati.
After Koja had taken Dagno Castle in 1396, he proclaimed himself Prince of Sati and Dagno ("dominus Sabatensis et Dagnensis"). and ruled the territory as a vassal of the Ottoman Empire .
In October 1400, Zaharia suggested that the Venetians simulate a battle in which he and his cousin and vassal Dhimitar Jonima would pretend to lose their property to the Venetians if they would receive 500 ducats a year. The Venetians did not answer immediately and so Koja decided to remain a vassal of the Ottoman sultan for the time being. In 1402 he fought together with other Albanian nobles in the battle of Ankara against Bayezid I.
In 1403, a year after the Ottomans were defeated in the Battle of Ankara, Koja and his vassal Dhimitër Jonima accepted the sovereignty of the Republic of Venice. During the First Shkodra War between the Principality of Zeta and the Republic of Venice, he supported the Venetian armed forces.
Around 1412 Koja's daughter Bolja married the Zetian prince Balša III. who in turn gave Zaharia the management of Budva . At that time, Koja's other daughter was already married to a member of the Đurašević family, who held an important position at the court of Balša. In order to bind Koja even closer to himself, Balša appointed him castellan of Budva. After the death of Balsa III. On April 28, 1421 Koja's daughter Bolja returned with her two daughters to her family in Dagnum.
Koja Zaharia then supported the Serbian despot Stefan Lazarević until he was defeated by Venice in December 1422. Although the Venetian admiral Francesco Bembo in April 1423 offered Gjon Kastrioti I , the royal family Dukagjini and Koja Zaharija money to join the Venetian armed forces against the Serbian despotate, they refused. Even so, the Serbian despot intended to financially destroy Zaharia and ordered the Ragusa merchants not to pay taxes to Koja and to travel to Serbia via Lezhe , not Dagnum.
When Işak Bey took Dagnum in 1430, the territory was placed under the administration of the Sanjakbeys of Albania, Ali Bey Evrenosoğlu , and Koja was imprisoned or banned. After the Albanian uprising of 1432 was suppressed in 1436, the Sultan entrusted Koja's son Leka Zaharia to a position as governor of Dagnum.
family
Zaharia was married to Boša, a daughter of Leka Dukagjini and sister of Tanush Major Dukagjini . The couple's children were Lekë Zaharia , Bolja and a daughter of unknown name who married Đurađ Đurašević Crnojević .
Koja Zaharia died before 1442. According to the historian Ćiro Truhelka , Bolja Zaharia married Petar Vojsalić , while the historian Aleksa Ivić claims that she was married to Petar I. Pavlović . Zaharia's widow Boša died on September 19, 1448 in Shkodra in a fire in the place that claimed many lives.
| Koja Zaharia | Boža | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1) Balša III. 2) Petar Pavlović or Petar Vojsalić |
Bolja | Leka Zaharia | Daughter (unknown name) | Đurađ Đurašević Crnojević | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Koja | Daughter (unknown name) | Daughter (unknown name) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Robert Elsie: A biographical dictionary of Albanian history . IB Tauris, London 2012, ISBN 9781780764313 p. 493
- ^ Carl Hermann Friedrich Johann Hopf: Chroniques Gréco-Romanes Inédites ou peu Connues . Librairie de Weidmann, Berlin 1873, p. 534 ([| url = https://books.google.com/?id=u60FAAAAQAAJ&dq=stresio+balsa&q=stresio+#search_anchor Online at Google Books])
- ↑ Zarij M. Bešić: Istorija Crne Gore / second Crna Gora u doba oblasnih Gospodara . Redakcija za istoiju Crne Gore, Titograd 1970, pp. 155,156 ( OCLC 175122851 )
- ↑ Bešić (1970), p. 155
- ↑ Milan Šufflay, St. Stanojević: Srbi i Arbanasi: njihova simbioza u srednjem vijeku . Biblioteka Arhiva za Arbanasku Starinu, Jezik i Etnologiju, Belgrade 1925 p. 49 ( OCLC 249799501 )
- ↑ Bešić (1970), p. 78
- ↑ Fine 1994, p. 422
- ↑ Elsie (2012), p. 493
- ^ John Van Antwerp Fine: The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest . University of Michigan Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-472-08260-5 , p. 510
- ^ Fine (1994), p. 512
- ^ Fine (1994), p. 513
- ^ Fine (1994), pp. 512, 513
- ^ Fine (1994), p. 513
- ↑ Bešić (1970), p. 133
- ^ Fine (1994), p. 516
- ^ Fine (1994), p. 517
- ↑ Dimitrije Vujović, Risto Dragićević, Nikola Đakonović, Milinko Đurović, Mirčeta Đurović, Pavle Mijović, Đoko Pejović, Vlado Strugar: Istorija Crne Gore Volume II, Naučno Delo, Titograd 1970, p. 144
- ↑ Bešić (1970), p. 155
- ↑ Bešić (1970), p. 158
- ↑ Bešić (1970), p. 160
- ↑ Ivan Bozic: Nemirno Pomorje XV veka . Srpska književna zadruga, Beograd 1979 p. 344 ( online at Google Books )
- ↑ George Ostrogorsky: Pronija: prilog istoriji feudalizma u Vizantiji iu juznoslovenskim zemljama . Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade 1951, p. 172
- ↑ Božić (1979), p. 364
- ↑ Aleksa Ivić: Rodoslovne tablice srpskih dinastija i vlastele . Matica Srpska, 1928
- ↑ Bešić (1970), p. 219
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zaharia, Koja |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zakaria, Koja |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | albanian nobleman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 14th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | before 1442 |