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The Ghica family is of Albanian origin. [3] The first recorded Ghica in historical records is Gheorghe Ghica.His family originally came from Albania and the wider region of Epirus and was possibly born in North Macedonia, south of the city of Skopje, in Köprülü (present-day Veles). [4]
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George Ghica (Albanian: Gjergj Gjika, Romanian: Gheorghe Ghica; 3 March [citation needed] 1600 – 2 November [citation needed] 1664) founder of the Ghica family, was the prince of Moldavia from 1658 to 1659 and the prince of Wallachia from 1659 to 1660.
Vladimir Ghika was born on Christmas Day of 1873 in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey).His father was Ioan Grigore Ghica, diplomat, minister plenipotentiary in Turkey; his mother Alexandrina was born Moret de Blaremberg (van Blarembergue) in a Flemish-Russian family; he had four brothers and a sister: Gregory, Alexander, George and Ella (who both died at an early age), and Dimitrie I. Ghika ...
He was the son of Alexandru Matei Ghica, with the position of dragoman, who was beheaded by the Sublime Porte and nephew of Grigore II Ghica's brother. Gregory III Ghica had a sister, Catherine (or Catinca), married to the Greek hetman Dumitru Sulgearoglu (also called Dimitrie Gheorghiadis Sulgearoglu).
Grigore Alexandru Ghica or Ghika (1803 or 1807 – 24 August 1857) was a Prince of Moldavia between 14 October 1849, and June 1853, and again between 30 October 1854, and 3 June 1856. His wife was Helena, a member of the Sturdza family and daughter of Ioan Sturdza , who had been Prince of Moldavia from 1822 to 1828.
Ghika is the son of Brigadier Prince John Nicholas Ghika, CBE (1928–2003), [1] [2] an Irish Guards officer who traced his royal title back to 1658, when the Ghica dynasty (A dynasty of Albanian origin [3] [4]) ruled over Moldavia, later Wallachia, and finally the Kingdom of Romania. Chris Ghika does not use the title "Prince" publicly. [5]
Alexandru Dimitrie Ghica [1] (1 May 1796 [2] – January 1862), a member of the Ghica family, was Prince of Wallachia from April 1834 to 7 October 1842 and later caimacam from July 1856 to October 1858.