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	Skanderbeg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1464 Skanderbeg fought and defeated Ballaban Badera, an Albanian renegade.
		During this conflict, Skanderbeg fell ill with malaria in the Venetian controlled city of Lezhe, and died on January 17, 1468, just as the army under the leadership of Leke Dukagjini defeated the Ottoman force in Shkodra.
		Skanderbeg's struggle against the Ottoman Empire became highly significant to the Albanian people, as it strengthened their solidarity, made them more conscious of their national identity, and served later as a great source of inspiration in their struggle for national unity, freedom, and independence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gjergj_Kastriot_Skanderbeg (2240 words)

	gjergj kastriot skanderbeg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gjergj (Albanian for George) Kastrioti (1405 - January 17, 1468) was born in Krujë, Albania from Gjon Kastrioti, lord of Middle Albania, who was obliged by the Ottomans to pay tribute to the Empire.
		Skanderbeg's military successes evoked a good deal of interest and admiration from the Papal States, Venice and Naples, themselves threatened by the growing Ottoman power across the Adriatic Sea.
		As an active defender of the Christian cause in the Balkans, Skanderbeg was also closely involved with the politics of four Popes, one of them being Pope Pius II, the Renaissance humanist, writer and diplomat.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /gjergj_kastriot_skanderbeg.html (867 words)

	4Reference \|\| Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gjergj (Albanian: George) Kastrioti (1405-1468) was born in Krujë, Albania from Gjon Kastrioti, lord of Middle Albania, who was obliged by the Ottomans to pay tribute to the Empire.
		Profoundly shaken by the fall of Constantinople in 1453, Pius II tried to organize a new crusade against the Turks; consequently he did his best to come to Skanderbeg's aid, as two of his predecessors Pope Nicholas V and Pope Calixtus III, had done before him.
		Skanderbeg's posthumous renown was by no means confined to his own country.
	www.4reference.net /encyclopedias/wikipedia/Gjergj_Kastriot_Skanderbeg.html (934 words)

	Encyclopedia: Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gjergj Kastrioti (Italian: Giorgio Castriota) (1405–January 17, 1468), better known as Skanderbeg or Skenderbej, was an Albanian leader who resisted the expanding Ottoman Empire for 25 years and is today considered a national hero of Albania.
		Obliged by the Ottomans to pay tribute to the Empire, and to ensure the fidelity of local rulers, Gjon Kastrioti's sons were taken by the Sultan to his court as hostages.
		Skanderbeg soon switched sides and came back to his native land to successfully defended Albania against the Ottoman Empire until his death.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gjergj-Kastriot-Skanderbeg (954 words)

	Skanderbeg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gjergj Kastrioti (1405, Kruja, January 17, 1468, Lezha) better known as Skanderbeg, was an Albanian prince who united the Albanian tribes of Epirus, Albania and a montenegrin tribe in resisting the expanding Ottoman Empire for 25 years.
		It was Skanderbeg's 25 year defiance of the Ottoman Empire which followed that perserved Christianity in Albania to this day.
		Though Ballaban Badera was defeated by Skanderbeg, he was successful in capturing a large number of Albanian army commanders, including Moisi Arianit Golemi, a cavalry commander; Vladan Giurica, the chief army economist; Muzaka of Angelina, a nephew of Skanderberg, and 18 other noblemen and army captains.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Skanderbeg.htm (1849 words)

	Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg : Gjergi Kastrioti Skandenberg
		Gjergj (Albanian: George) Kastrioti (1405-1468) was born in Kruje[?], Albania from Gjon Kastrioti, lord of Middle Albania, who was obliged by the Ottomans to pay tribute to the Empire.
		Gjergj Kastrioti attended military school in the Ottoman Empire and was named Iskander Bey which in Turkish means Lord Alexandre.
		Many museums and monuments are raised in his honour around Albania, and among them the Museum of Skanderbeg[?] in his famous castle in Kruje.
	www.fastload.org /gj/Gjergi_Kastrioti_Skandenberg.html (825 words)

	SKANDERBEG FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gjergj Kastrioti (George Kastrioti) (1405, Kruja - January_17, 1468, Lezha), better known as Skanderbeg, is the most prominent figure in the history of Albania.
		During this conflict, Skanderbeg fell ill with malaria in the Venetian controlled city of Lezhe, and died on January_17, 1468, just as the army under the leadership of Leke_Dukagjini defeated the Ottoman force in Shkodra.
		As an active defender of the Christian cause in the Balkans, Skanderbeg was also closely involved with the politics of four Popes, one of them being Pope_Pius_II, the Renaissance humanist, writer, and diplomat.
	www.19gmarketinggroup.com /Skanderbeg (2060 words)

	Skanderbeg Details, Meaning Skanderbeg Article and Explanation Guide
		Gjergj Kastrioti (Italian: Giorgio Castriota) (1405 - January 17, 1468), better known as Skanderbeg or Skenderbej, was an Albanian leader who resisted the expanding Ottoman Empire for 25 years and is today considered a national hero of Albania.
		He was born in Krujë, Albania; his father was an Albanian nobleman, Gjon Kastrioti (Giovanni Castriota), lord of Middle Albania, and his mother was Vojsava, of undefined origins.
		Skanderbeg is founder of Castriota Scanderbeg family which is today part of Italian nobility.
	www.e-paranoids.com /s/sk/skanderbeg.html (1006 words)

	Encyclopedia: LekÃ« Dukagjini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lekë Dukagjini (1410-1481) is an Albanian historical figure, contemporary of Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg, who fought against the Turks and is known for the code of law instituted in northern Albania and still applied today in some remote areas known as Kanuni.
		List of Princes of Albania Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg (1443-1468) Lekë Dukagjini (1446-1481) Ismail Qemali (1912-1914) William of Wied (1914) Note: Leka Anwar Zog Reza Baudouin Msiziwe is the son of Leka Zogu, the pretender to Albanias throne, and is called by monarchists Prince Leka of Albania.
		Overshadowed by Skanderbeg, Lekë Dukagjini is most well known for the set of laws ruling the highlands of northern Albania, known as the Kanuni.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lek%EB-Dukagjini (954 words)

	Skanderbeg
		Scanderbeg sculpture Gjergj Kastrioti (Italian: Giorgio Castriota) (1405–January 17, 1468), better known as Skanderbeg or Skenderbej, was an Albanian leader who resisted the expanding Ottoman Empire for 25 years and is today considered a national hero of Albania.
		Portrait of Skanderbeg Skanderbeg's military successes evoked a good deal of interest and admiration from the Papal States, Venice and Naples, themselves threatened by the growing Ottoman power across the Adriatic Sea.
		Kruja Castle Skanderbeg's posthumous fame was not confined to his own country.
	www.keywordmage.net /sk/skanderbeg.html (931 words)

	arbereshe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		These people settled in Italy during the 15th and 16th centuries after the great Albanian hero Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg died.
		Indeed, in 1448, the King Alphonse V of Aragon, known as Magnanime (1396-1458), King de Naples, wanting to repress one to repress a rebellion of Italian lords, called with the rescue his ally, Gjergj Kastrioti de Kruja, known as "Skanderbeg", head of Albanian Alliance.
		The large migratory waves which struck Italy of the South into 1900-10 depopulated approximately half of the villages arberesh, and subjected during this century the population at the strong risk of cultural disappearance, after a beginning of cultural and artistic revival with the XIXème century.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /arbereshe.html (862 words)

	Arbëreshë - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Indeed, in 1448, King, known as Magnanime (1396-1458), King of Naples, wanting to repress a rebellion of Italian lords, called on his ally, Gjergj Kastrioti de Kruja, known as "Skanderbeg", head of the Albanian Alliance.
		At the time of the War of succession of Naples, Ferdinand of Aragon again called on Arbëresh forces against the Franco-Italian armies, and Skanderbeg disembarked in 1461 in Brindisi.
		The wave of migration from southern Italy to the Americas in 1900-10 depopulated approximately half of the Arbëresh villages, and subjected the population to the risk of cultural disappearance, despite the beginning of a cultural and artistic revival in the 19th Century.
	www.butte-silverbow.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Arb%EBresh%EB (916 words)

	Encyclopedia: ArbÃ«reshÃ« (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Indeed, in 1448, King Alphonse V of Aragon, known as Magnanime (1396-1458), King of Naples, wanting to repress a rebellion of Italian lords, called on his ally, Gjergj Kastrioti de Kruja, known as "Skanderbeg", head of the Albanian Alliance.
		Catanzaro was at one time the lace capital of the world with a large silkworm breeding, it produced all the laces and linens used in the Vatican.
		The Two Sicilies The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was the new name that the Bourbon king Ferdinand IV of Naples gave to his domain (including Southern Italy and Sicily) after the end of the Napoleonic Era and the full restoration of his power in 1816.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Arb%ebresh%eb (1787 words)

	Skanderbeg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		'''Skanderbeg''' - eigentlich '''Georg Kastriota''' oder '''Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu''' auf Albanisch - (* 1405, † 17.
		Jahrhunderts verteidigte Skanderbeg, von der Festung Kruja aus, Albanien gegen das Osmanische Reich.
		Skanderbeg wurde in einer Kirche im nordalbanischen Lezha begraben.
	www.kraeuter-und-gewuerze.de /Georg_Kastriota (507 words)

	FLAGGE ALBANIENS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sie ist hergeleitet von einem Siegel von Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg, dem albanischen Nationalhelden, der die Albaner in einem Aufstand im 15.
		Skanderbegs Adler geht wiederum auf byzantinische Vorbilder zurück.
		Als Nationalflagge wurde diese Fahne erstmals gezeigt, als im November 1912 in Vlora die albanische Unabhängigkeit ausgerufen wurde.
	www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/F/Flagge_Albaniens (136 words)

	Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
		In (see League_of_Lezha, 1444) and united them under his command to fight against the Ottomans.
		On two other occasions, in 1466 and 1467, Mehmed_II, the conqueror of Constantinople, led the Ottoman army himself against Skanderbeg and failed to defeat him.
		Profoundly shaken by the fall of Constantinople in 1453, Pius II tried to organize a new crusade against the Turks; consequently he did his best to come to Skanderbeg's aid, as his predecessors Pope_Nicholas_V and Pope_Calixtus_III had done before him.
	www.indexsuche.com /Gjergj_Kastriot_Skanderbeg.html (711 words)

	History - Albanian Historical Figures - Zog of Albania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Zogu's principal ally was Italy, which loaned his government funds in exchange for a role in its fiscal policy.
		Serfdom was gradually eliminated and Albania began to take shape as a nation (rather than a feudal patchwork of local beys) for the first time since the death of Skanderbeg.
		He instituted a Zogist salute (flat hand over the heart with palm facing forwards) and claimed to be a successor of Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg.
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	GJERGJ KASTRIOT SKËNDERBEU - Faqja 4 - Forumi Shqiptar
		And the Albanian flag still features a double eagle, the symbol that Skanderbeg hoisted in his 1443 battle to proclaim to the world his Albanian pride.
		He is known to have embraced Islam, and to have impressed Sultan Murad II with his promise; he was attached to the Sultan's personal staff for a period, and given the name Iskander, or Alexander, a revered name in Asia Minor since the days of the god-king of Macedon.
		His rank was Bey, and 'Skanderbeg' was the corruption of his Turkish name and rank produced in later years by his Albanian countrymen."
	www.forumishqiptar.com /showthread.php?t=297&goto=lastpost (541 words)

	Emblem of Albania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is based off the seal of Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg.
		The emblem above the head of the two-headed eagle is the helmet of Skanderbeg.
		This page was last modified 17:00, 10 October 2005.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emblem_of_Albania (70 words)

	BANDIERA ALBANESE
		La bandiera Albanese è una bandiera rossa con un'aquila nera a due teste al centro.
		Deriva dal simile sigillo di Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg, un albanese del XV secolo, il quale guidò la rivolta contro l'Impero Ottomano che risultò in una breve indipendenza dell'Albania, dal 1443 al 1478.
		La prima recava l'"elmo di Skanderbeg" sopra l'aquila, mentre la seconda aveva una stella rossa bordata di giallo.
	www.24pm-affiliation.com /encyclopedia/B/Bandiera_Albanese (110 words)

	ipedia.com: Zog of Albania Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He also instituted a Zogist salute -- flat hand over heart with palm facing forwards.
		He claimed to be a successor of Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg.
		He collected gold coins and other precious jewelry and compensated the people with printed or stamped money by establishing the first official currency of Albania.
	www.ipedia.com /zog_of_albania.html (765 words)

	WWW-VL: History Index: Albania History: Tirana, Kosovo, Illyrian, Skanderbeg, Faïk Konitza, G. Panarity, Fan Noli, ...
		WWW-VL: History Index: Albania History: Tirana, Kosovo, Illyrian, Skanderbeg, Faïk Konitza, G. Panarity, Fan Noli, King Zog, Hoxha, Republika e Shqipërisë
		Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg from Fan S. Noli's biography, George Castrioti Scanderbeg
		Special thanks to Sarah Panarity, Boston, MA, for sharing so much about her late husband, Qerim M. Panarity -- his life and work.
	vlib.iue.it /history/europe/albania.html (223 words)

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