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Gjon Muzaka

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Noble family
  
Parents
  
Gjin Muzaka

Name
  
Gjon Muzaka

Died
  
1515 or later

Father
  
Gjin Muzaka


Gjon Muzaka Gjuha blu Gilgameshi dhe Gjon Muzaka Gazeta Dita

sons
  
Theodore, Adrian and Constantine

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. 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.

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 Ivan, and Jovan.

References

Gjon Muzaka Wikipedia