Dhimitër Jonima

Dhimitër Jonima
Lord of Shufada
Reign13??-1409
Born14th century
Died1409
Noble familyJonima family

Dhimitër Jonima (died 1409), also known as Demetrius, Demeter, Dimitri, Dimitrije or Dmitar Gonoma was an Albanian nobleman and feudal lord from the Jonima family who controlled territories along the trade route between Lezhë and Prizren, including the coastal port of Shufada at the mouth of the Mati river. Jonima is recorded as one of the leaders of the Albanian forces that fought in Prince Lazar's coalition against the Ottomans at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389.

In the years that followed, he alternated between Ottoman and Venetian vassalage, using these shifting allegiances to preserve his domains. He is last mentioned in 1409, the year in which he likely died. After his death, the Jonima family declined in power, with many of their former lands passing to the Kastrioti family; Ottoman cadastral records of the 15th and 16th centuries still referred to the region he once ruled over as the vilayet of Dhimitër Jonima.