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The Ghicas were a noble family, ruling Wallachia
Wallachia

Wallachia or Walachia is a Historical regions of Romania and geographical region of Romania. It is situated north of the Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians....
 and Moldavia
Moldavia

Moldavia is a geographic and historical region and former principality in Eastern Europe, corresponding to the territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester river....
 for much of the period from the 17th century through the 19th century.






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House of Great Ban Mihai Ghica
The Ghicas were a noble family, ruling Wallachia
Wallachia

Wallachia or Walachia is a Historical regions of Romania and geographical region of Romania. It is situated north of the Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians....
 and Moldavia
Moldavia

Moldavia is a geographic and historical region and former principality in Eastern Europe, corresponding to the territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester river....
 for much of the period from the 17th century through the 19th century. The Ghicas originated from Albania and came north to Wallachia during the Ottoman
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
 period (Ghica is a very common last name in Albania
Albania

Albania , officially the Republic of Albania , is a country in Balkans. It is bordered by Greece to the south-east, Montenegro to the north, Kosovo to the northeast, and the Republic of Macedonia to the east....
). Princess Elena Gjika (Dora D'istria) wrote about the Albanian origins of her family in "Gli Albanesi in Rumenia" a history of the dukes of Ghica in the 17th to 19th centuries (2. Ed., Florence 1873). The Ghica family in modern Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
 originates from the Ghicas of the Ottoman period.

Princes of Wallachia


  • Gheorghe Ghica
    Gheorghe Ghica

    George Ghica March 3 1600 – November 2 1664), founder of the Ghica family , was List of Moldavian rulers of Moldavia in 1658-1659 and List of Wallachian rulers of Wallachia in 1659-1660...
    : 1659-1660 and 1673-1678
  • Grigore I Ghica
    Grigore I Ghica

    Grigore I Ghica, a member of the Ghica family, was List of rulers of Wallachia of Wallachia between September 1660 and December 1664 and again between March 1672 and November 1674....
    : 1660-1664 and 1672-1673
  • Grigore II Ghica
    Grigore II Ghica

    Grigore II Ghica family was Voivode of Moldavia at four different intervals - from October 1726 to April 16 1733, from November 27 1735 to 14 September 1739, from October 1739 to September 1741 and from May 1747 to April 1748 - and twice Voivode of Wallachia - April 16 1733 - November 27 1735 and April 1748 to September 3 1752....
    : 1733-1735 and 1748-1752
  • Matei Ghica
    Matei Ghica

    Matei Ghica, a member of the Ghica family, was the List of rulers of Wallachia of Wallachia between 11 September 1752 and 22 June 1753, and List of rulers of Moldavia of Moldavia between 22 June 1753 and 8 February 1756....
    : 1752-1753
  • Scarlat Ghica
    Scarlat Ghica

    Prince Scarlat Ghica was a List of rulers of Moldavia of Moldavia , and twice List of rulers of Wallachia of Wallachia . He was a member of the Ghica family....
    : 1758-1761 and 1765-1766
  • Alexandru Ghica
    Alexandru Ghica

    Alexandru Ghica was Voivode of Wallachia from 1766 to 1768....
    : 1766-1768
  • Grigore III Ghica
    Grigore III Ghica

    Grigore III Ghica was twice the Prince of Moldavia between 29 March 1764 - 3 February 1767 and September 1774 - 10 October 1777 and of Wallachia: 28 October 1768 - November 1769....
    : 1768-1769
  • Grigore IV Ghica
    Grigore IV Ghica

    Grigore IV Ghica or Grigore Dimitrie Ghica was List of Wallachian rulers of Wallachia between 1822 and 1828. A member of the Ghica family, Grigore IV was the brother of Alexandru Ghica and the uncle of Dora d'Istria....
    : 1822-1828
  • Alexandru II Ghica
    Alexandru II Ghica

    Alexandru II or Alexandru D. Ghica , a member of the Ghica family, was List of rulers of Wallachia of Wallachia from April 1834 to 7 October 1842 and later caimacam from July 1856 to October 1858....
    : 1834-1842


Princes of Moldavia


  • Gheorghe Ghica
    Gheorghe Ghica

    George Ghica March 3 1600 – November 2 1664), founder of the Ghica family , was List of Moldavian rulers of Moldavia in 1658-1659 and List of Wallachian rulers of Wallachia in 1659-1660...
    : 1658-1659, 1735-1741 and 1747-1748
  • Matei Ghica
    Matei Ghica

    Matei Ghica, a member of the Ghica family, was the List of rulers of Wallachia of Wallachia between 11 September 1752 and 22 June 1753, and List of rulers of Moldavia of Moldavia between 22 June 1753 and 8 February 1756....
    : 1753-1756
  • Scarlat Ghica
    Scarlat Ghica

    Prince Scarlat Ghica was a List of rulers of Moldavia of Moldavia , and twice List of rulers of Wallachia of Wallachia . He was a member of the Ghica family....
    : 1757-1758
  • Grigore III Ghica
    Grigore III Ghica

    Grigore III Ghica was twice the Prince of Moldavia between 29 March 1764 - 3 February 1767 and September 1774 - 10 October 1777 and of Wallachia: 28 October 1768 - November 1769....
    : 1764-1767 and 1774-1777
  • Grigore Alexandru Ghica
    Grigore Alexandru Ghica

    Grigore Alexandru Ghica or Ghika was a List of rulers of Moldavia of Moldavia between October 14, 1849 and June 1853, and again between October 30, 1854 and June 3, 1856....
    : 1849-1853 and 1854-1856


Prime Ministers of Romania


  • Ion Ghica
    Ion Ghica

    Ion Ghica was a Romanian revolutionary, mathematician, diplomat and twice Prime Minister of Romania . He was a full member of the Romanian Academy and its president for four times ....
    : 1866-1867 and 1870-1871
  • Dimitrie Ghica
    Dimitrie Ghica

    Dimitrie Ghica or Ghika was a Romanian politician. A prominent member of the Conservative Party , he served as Prime Minister of Romania between 1868 and 1870....
    : 1868-1870


Others


  • Elena Ghica
    Dora d'Istria

    Dora d'Istria , pen-name of duchess Helena Koltsova-Massalskaya, born Elena Ghica or Gjika, was a Romanian-Albanian Romanticism writer and Feminism....
     (1828-1888), writer
  • Pantazi Ghica
    Pantazi Ghica

    Pantazi Ghica was a Wallachian-born Romanian politician and lawyer, also known as a dramatist, poet, short story writer, and literary critic. A prominent representative of the Liberalism and radicalism in Romania, he was the younger brother and lifelong collaborator of Ion Ghica, who served as List of Prime Ministers of Romania of the Kingdo...
     (1831-1882), writer, politician and financier
  • Dimitrie Ghica-Comanesti
    Dimitrie Ghica-Comanesti

    Dimitrie Ghica-Comanesti , aka Demeter Ghika, Ghika Comanesteanu, Prince Ghika de Roumanie, was a Romanian nobleman, explorer, famous hunter, adventurer and politician....
     (1840-1923), politician, explorer of Africa, hunter, member of Parliament
  • Nicolae Ghica-Budesti (1869-1943), architect
  • Albert Gjika (late 19th century), pretender to the Albania
    Albania

    Albania , officially the Republic of Albania , is a country in Balkans. It is bordered by Greece to the south-east, Montenegro to the north, Kosovo to the northeast, and the Republic of Macedonia to the east....
    n throne
  • Vladimir Ghika
    Vladimir Ghika

    Vladimir Ghika or Ghica was a Romanian diplomat and essayist who, after his conversion from Romanian Orthodox Church to Roman Catholic Church, became a priest, dying in prison after his arrest by the Communist Romania....
     (1873-1954), Roman Catholic priest
  • Alexandrina Pallady (1876-1944), adopted Ghica and married Cantacuzino
    Cantacuzino family

    The Cantacuzino family is an old boyar family of Wallachia which they claim to get their roots from the Byzantine Emperor John VI Cantacuzenus....
    , feminist and fascist activist
  • Matyla Ghyka
    Matyla Ghyka

    Prince Matila Costiesco Ghyka , Royal Victorian Order, Military Cross , was a poet, novelist, mathematician, historian, and diplomat, and the Romanian Diplomatic rank in the United Kingdom during the late 1930s and until 1940....
     (1881-1965), writer
  • Dimitrie Ghyka (?-1967?), diplomat and memoirist
  • Alexandru Ghika
    Alexandru Ghika

    Alexandru Ghika was a Romanian mathematician, founder of the Romanian school of functional analysis....
     (1902-1964), mathematician
  • Serban Ghica (1919-2006), rugby union player and anti-communist activist