Gjon Muzaka
| Gjon Muzaka | |
|---|---|
| Prince | |
| sons | Theodore, Adrian and Constantine |
|
Full name
Gjon Gjin Muzaka | |
| Noble family | Muzaka family |
| Father | Gjin Muzaka |
| Died | 1515 or later |
Gjon Muzaka (fl. 1510; Italian: Giovanni Musachi di Berat ) was an Albanian nobleman from the Muzaka family, that has historically ruled in the Myzeqe region, Albania.[1] In 1510 he wrote a Breve memoria de li discendenti de nostra casa Musachi (Short memoir on the descendents of our Myzeqe lineage). The work was published in Karl Hopf's Chroniques gréco-romaines, Paris 1873, p. 270-340.[2]
According to his memoirs, Gjon's father died before Ottomans captured Berat in 1417.
Name
His name is mentioned in sources in several different versions, like John, Giovanni[3] Ivan,[4] and Jovan.[5]
References
- ↑ Braudel, Fernand (1995). The Mediterranean and the mediterranean world in the age of Philip II, Volume 2. p. 664. ISBN 0-520-20330-5.
- ↑ "John Musachi: Brief Chronicle on the Descendants of our Musachi Dynasty".
- ↑ Robert Elsie (2010). Historical Dictionary of Albania. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 315. ISBN 978-0-8108-6188-6.
John Musachi (Ital. Giovanni Musachi)
- ↑ The complaints of Macedonia: memoranda, petitions, resolutions, minutes, letters and documents, addressed to the League of Nations, 1919-1939. International Documentation on Macedonia. 1979. p. 17.
Ivan Musachi
- ↑ Spiridion Gopčević (1889). Makedonien und Alt-Serbien (in German). L. W. Seidel. p. 305.
Jovan Musaki
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