Vonko

Vonko

Vonko

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Vonko[a] (fl. 1400-1401) was a "Serb-Albanian-Bulgarian-Vlach" who conquered Arta from the Shpata family in 1400, holding it until late 1401, when the Shpatas regained the town.

Not much is known of him.[1] In a Greek monastic chronicle, the Chronicle of Proclus and Comnenus[2] (also known as the Chronicle of Ioannina[1]) from the Panteleimon monastery at Ioannina,[3][4] the last inclusion mentions: "October 29, on Wednesday (1400), Despot Shpatas enters Eternity (dies). Immediately afterwards, his brother Skurra holds Arta. After some days, the Serb-Albanian-Bulgarian-Vlach[b] Bokoes (Vonko) attacked and expelled Skurra, and started to round up all the elders and imprisoned them in the fort, and he destroyed their possessions."[5] He treated the citizens badly, and they called on the Republic of Venice for help.[1]

By the end of 1401, Vonko had been driven out from Arta. Skurra did not retain the town, instead his nephew Muriq Shpata took over Arta and Skurra took over Angelokastron.[6] No more is mentioned of him.[1]

G. Schiro, who studied the genealogy of Shpata, assumed that the name (Bokoes in the original text) is a variant of Bua, based on linguistic data and the fact that Bua initially had the form of Buchia.[7]

Annotations

  1. ^
    Name: His name appears in the "Chronicle of Ioannina" as Μποκόης (Bokoes) and has been transliterated as Vonko,[5][3][4] or Vango,[6][2]
    2. or Bokoi[8] in other languages.
  2. ^
    The wide designation of his ethnicity (Serv-Alvanito-Voulgaro-Vlahos) gives the notion that there was a known symbiosis in that region in the 14th century, comparable with that of Macedonia.[5]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Ellis, p. 151
  2. [2]
    Vakalopoulos, p. 154
  3. [3]
    Banač, p. 328
  4. [4]
    Stoianovich, p. 132
  5. [5]
    Šufflay 1925, pp. 69–70
  6. [6]
    Fine 1994, pp. 355–356
  7. [7]
    Schiró Giuseppe, La genealogia degli Spata tra il XIV e XV sec. e due Bua sconosciouti, Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici, Universita di Roma, Roma, 1971-1972, pp. 84-85.
  8. [8]
    Schiró G. p. 71

References

  • Šufflay, Milan (1925). Srbi i Arbanasi (in Croatian).
  • Ivo Banač, The national question in Yugoslavia: origins, history, politics
  • Traian Stoianovich, Balkan worlds: the first and last Europe
  • Apostolos Euangelou Vakalopoulos,Origins of the Greek nation: the Byzantine period, 1204-1461
  • Steven G. Ellis, Lud'a Klusáková, Imagining frontiers, contesting identities
  • Fine, John V. (1994). The Late Medieval Balkans : a Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest. University of Michigan Press. hdl:2027/heb.04995. ISBN 978-0-472-08260-5. OCLC 872155187.
Preceded by Ruler of Arta
1400–1401		 Succeeded by
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