Jak Mark Suma

Jak Mark Suma (known in Italian as Giacomo Suma) was an Albanian diplomat. He was the vice consul of Venice and then Austria and a dragoman between them and the Ottoman Empire. He was the last vice consul of Venice in Shkodra in the 600-year presence of the maritime republic in the city.[1] He was the son of Kolë Suma, one the first native doctors in the region. He came from a branch of the Albanian Suma family, a notable urban family of Shkodra since the middle ages.[2] In 1778, Mahmud Pasha proposed to elect Suma as the vice consul of Shkodër.[3] In his time as vice-consul of Venice he faced the increasing competition by the trade of Dulcigno to Venetian interests in Shkodër.[4] Suma was personally responsible for transportation of products from Shkodër to Venice and would travel with the cargo to oversee the journey.[5]

Jak Mark Suma
Born
Shkodër
Died
Shkodër
NationalityAlbanian
CitizenshipVenetian
Educationdragoman
Occupation(s)vice-consul and dragoman
Years activec. 1760-1796
Employer(s)Venice and Austria
Known forBeing the vice-consul of Austria and Venice
FamilyKolë Suma Heqimi

References
  1. "Pashalleku i Shkodres nen qeverisjen e Ibrahim pashe Bushatlliut (1797-1809)". Shqiperia (in Albanian). No. Translation: Former Venetian, now Austrian deputy consul, Jak Mark Suma, continued in his post until the Kampo Formios treaty. So did Ibrahim Pasha with the Republic of Ragusa. 2001. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  2. Suma, Terezina (1997). Kolë Suma (Heqimi) mjeku i parë shqiptar. Tirana: Hylli i dritës. - p. 1-2, , 1997, f. 59-68. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  3. Gjeli, Ardit (2018). BETWEEN REBELLION AND OBEDIENCE: THE RISE AND FALL OF BUSHATLI MAHMUD PASHA OF SHKODRA (1752-1796) (PDF). Istanbul: A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES OF İSTANBUL ŞEHİR UNIVERSITY. p. 6. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  4. Shqiptare, Qendra Mbarekombetare e Koleksionisteve (30 September 2017). "1st October 1785, Jak Suma vice-consul from Shkodra, notifies the trade office for the competition that Ulcinj ships make to Venetian in Shkodra". Qendra Mbarekombetare e Koleksionisteve Shqiptare.
  5. Čolak, Nikola (1985). Hrvatski pomorski regesti. Centro di studi storici croati--Venezia. pp. 297, 302.


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