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The Ghica (Albanian: Gjika, [Gikas, Γκίκαs] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help), Romanian: Ghica,) were a noble Christian family of Albanian origin from modern central and south-eastern Albania.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Several members of this family became Phanariote rulers of Wallachia and Moldavia, after undergoing a process of Hellenization. The family later went through a process of Francization.^[1]

Princess Elena Gjika (Dora d'Istria) also wrote about the Albanian origins of her family in "Gli Albanesi in Rumenia" a history of the Ghica family from the 17th to the 19th centuries.^[2]

The Ghica/Gjika/Gikas family in the modern Balkans originates from the Ghicas of the Ottoman period.

Princes of Wallachia

Gheorghe Ghica: 1659-1660 and 1673-1678
Grigore I Ghica: 1660-1664 and 1672-1673
Grigore II Ghica: 1733-1735 and 1748-1752
Matei Ghica: 1752-1753
Scarlat Ghica: 1758-1761 and 1765-1766
Alexandru Ghica: 1766-1768
Grigore III Ghica: 1768-1769
Grigore IV Ghica: 1822-1828
Alexandru II Ghica: 1834-1842

Princes of Moldavia

Gheorghe Ghica: 1658-1659, 1735-1741 and 1747-1748
Matei Ghica: 1753-1756
Scarlat Ghica: 1757-1758
Grigore III Ghica: 1764-1767 and 1774-1777
Grigore Alexandru Ghica: 1849-1853 and 1854-1856

Prime Ministers of Romania

Ion Ghica: 1866-1867 and 1870-1871
Dimitrie Ghica: 1868-1870

Others

Elena Ghica (1828-1888), writer
Pantazi Ghica (1831-1882), writer, politician and financier
Dimitrie Ghica-Comăneşti (1840-1923), politician, explorer of Africa, hunter, member of Parliament
Nicolae Ghica-Budeşti (1869-1943), architect
Albert Gjika (late 19th century), pretender to the Albanian throne
Vladimir Ghika (1873-1954), Roman Catholic Priest
Alexandrina Pallady (1876-1944), adopted Ghica and married Cantacuzino, feminist and fascist activist
Matyla Ghyka (1881-1965), writer
Dimitrie Ghyka (?-1967?), diplomat and memoirist
Alexandru Ghika (1902-1964), mathematician
Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Gika (1906-1994), famous contemporary Greek painter
Şerban Ghica (1919-2006), rugby union player and anti-communist activist

External links

• Extensive website about the family Template:Fr icon

References

^ ^a ^b Borsi-Kálmán, Béla (1991). Hungarian exiles and the Romanian national movement, 1849-1867. Atlantic studies on society in change. Vol. 67. University of Michigan. p. 86. ISBN 088033228X.
^ ^a ^b de Haan, Franciska (2006). Biographical dictionary of women's movements and feminisms in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe: 19th and 20th centuries. G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series. Central European University Press. pp. 157–160. ISBN 9637326391. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
^ Bellusci, Michael Consalvo (1960). Origin of the Bellusci family. University of Wisconsin–Madison. p. 10.
^ Rhyne, George (1995). The Supplement to the modern encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet and Eurasian history. University of Michigan. p. 180. ISBN 0875691420.

[borsi-1] Borsi-Kálmán, Béla (1991). Hungarian exiles and the Romanian national movement, 1849-1867. Atlantic studies on society in change. Vol. 67. University of Michigan. p. 86. ISBN 088033228X.

[womensmovements-2] Haan, Franciska (2006). Biographical dictionary of women's movements and feminisms in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe: 19th and 20th centuries. G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series. Central European University Press. pp. 157–160. ISBN 9637326391. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

[3] Bellusci, Michael Consalvo (1960). Origin of the Bellusci family. University of Wisconsin–Madison. p. 10.

[4] Rhyne, George (1995). The Supplement to the modern encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet and Eurasian history. University of Michigan. p. 180. ISBN 0875691420.

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