Gjon Muzaka

Gjon Muzaka (fl. 1510; Italian: Giovanni Musachi) 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, which are not completely reliable primary source, 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.

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