Shufada

Shufada also known as Shufadaja, Shufadah or Suffada was a medieval trade port in northern Albania. It was near the mouth of a river, with academics proposing Mat,{{cite book | last=Buda | first=Aleks |title=Fjalor Enciklopedik Shqiptar | publisher=Akademia e Shkencave | series=Fjalor enciklopedik shqiptar | issue=v. 1 | year=1985 | page=859}} Ishëm{{cite book | last1=Baçe | first1=Apollon | last2=Aleksi | first2=Avenir |title=Monumentet | publisher=Instituti i Monumenteve të Kulturës | issue=v. 31 | year=1986 | page=28}} and Erzen.{{cite book | last=Hernandez | first=D. | last2=Hodges | first2=R. | title=Butrint 7: Beyond Butrint: Kalivo, Mursi, Çuka e Aitoit, Diaporit and the Vrina Plain. Surveys and Excavations in the Pavllas River Valley, Albania, 1928–2015 | publisher=Oxbow Books | series=Butrint Archaeological Monographs | year=2020 | page=154}} It was at the time one among a string of ports in Albania that enjoyed prosperity and economic significance until being abandoned at the start of the Ottoman period. A 1420 commercial treaty between Gjon Kastrioti and the Republic of Ragusa shows that Shufada was the main customs port for the former's domains.{{cite book | last=Ducellier | first=Allain | title=L'Albanie entre Byzance et Venise, Xe-XVe siècles | publisher=Variorum Reprints | series=Collected studies | year=1987 | page=49}}