Andrea Gropa

Andrea Gropa also known as Andrija was a 14th-century Albanian nobleman who ruled the region and the city of Ohrid, first as a minor vassal for a very short time (župan) to Serbian King Vukašin Mrnjavčević (r. 1365–1371), then as independent after 1370.

His ancestor Pal Gropa was acknowledged by Charles I of Naples in 1273: "nobili viro sevasto Paulo Gropa »casalia Radicis maioris et Radicis minons, пeс non Cobocheste, Zuadigorica, Sirclani et Craye, Zessizan sitam in valle de Ebu".

Vukašin's son, Marko, did not have the power to unite his lords, and only retained nominal rule over the area from his base at Prilep.

[11] Gropa is mentioned as megas zupanos (župan veliki) in a Greek stone inscription dating to 1378.

[20] Gropa is, like some the other provincial lords during the breakdown and fall of the Serbian Empire (between 1354 and 1371), enumerated in the Serb epic poetry.

Monogram of Andrea Gropa from the Church of Saint Sophia, Ohrid
Lesser Saint Clement Church - Gropa is mentioned in its ktetor inscription.