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and later as Ottoman vassals. The family's progenitors were the brothers Gjin Bua Shpata and Skurra Bua Shpata. Shpata means "sword" in Albanian. In the...

Gjin Bua Shpata (sometimes anglicized as John Spata) (fl. 1358 – 29 October 1399) was an Albanian ruler in Western Greece with the title of Despot. Together...

involvement of Gjin Bua Shpata in the region. The Bua were not patrilineally kin (blood relatives) with the Shpata tribe. The Meksi family is believed to be...

Yaqub Spata or Shpata (Albanian: Jakob Bua Shpata, Greek: Γιαγούπης Σπάτας) was the last Lord of Arta, ruling from 1414/15 until 1416, with a brief interval...

unclear whether the Arianitis adopted it through intermarriage with the Shpata family of central Albania or as a toponymic that derives from the region of...

"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...

Muriki or Maurice Shpata (Albanian: Muriq Shpata, Greek: Μουρίκης Σπάτας; fl. 1399–1414) was the ruler of Arta from late 1399/early 1400 until his death...

gains northern Thrace Albanian-Epirote War of 1359 Albanian Losha Family and Shpata Family Despotate of Epirus Victory An Epirote invasion force is badly...

Bua Shpata. After the death of Pjetër Losha in 1374, the Albanian despotates of Arta and Angelocastron were united under the rule of Gjin Bua Shpata. At...

Apokaukos, Metropolitan of Naupaktos, to a George Dysipati (ancestor of the Shpata family). Albanian tribes moved to the south in large numbers in the early 14th...

quotation to verify] Pietro was the father of Gjin Bua Shpata and Skurra Bua Shpata of the Shpata family, and they were likely born within the regions of Delvinë...

George Dysipati, who was considered to be an ancestor of the famous Shpata family.... Are we obliged to see a possible earlier Albanian migration in the...

Sgouros Shpata (Albanian: Skurra Bua Shpata; fl. 1399–1403) was the Lord of Arta briefly in 1400, and the Lord of Angelokastron from 1401 until his death...

Bua Shpata, Andrea II Muzaka, Gjon Zenebishi, Karl Topia, Andrea Gropa, Balsha family, Gjergj Arianiti, Gjon Kastrioti, Skanderbeg, Dukagjini family and...

was married Irene, the daughter of Gjin Bua Shpata, Despot of Arta, and thus became the son-in-law of Shpata and the brother-in-law of the wife of Esau...

difficult, however, to reach an agreement with the Albanians. In 1385 Gjin Bua Shpata, despot of Arta, advanced on Ioannina, but Esau managed to prepare the defences...

aristocracy used titles of Byzantine titulature like despot, (Balsha and Gjin Bue Shpata), sevastocrator (Gjin Zenebishi) and comes. Osswald 2011, p. 226. Osswald...

Amphilochia. He died in 1374 and was succeeded by his close ally, Gjin Bua Shpata. The Chronicle of the Tocco is an important primary source for his life...

Irene Preljubović Thomas Preljubović (Preljubović) - - - 1374 1374 Gjin Bua Shpata - - - - - - - - Skurra Bua Shpata - Nerata - - - - - - Muriq Shpata...

River area, Gjin Bua Shpata. The town remained in the hands of the Shpata family until 1416, when the last Albanian ruler, Yaqub Shpata, was defeated by the...