Gjon Muzaka
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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 descendants of our Myzeqe lineage). The work was published in Karl Hopf's Chroniques gréco-romaines, Paris 1873, pp. 270–340.[2]
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Gjon Muzaka | |
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Full name | Gjon Gjin Muzaka |
Died | 1515 or later |
Noble family | Muzaka family |
Spouse(s) | Maria Dukagjini |
Issue | Theodore
Adrian Constantine Helena Porphida |
Father | Gjin Muzaka |
Mother | Kirana Zardari |
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According to his memoirs, Gjon's father died before Ottomans captured Berat in 1417.