George Kastrioti, also known as Skanderbeg, was a great national hero of these people:
- Albanians
- Bosnians
- Turks
- Serbs
- Croats
Daily Quiz for August 26, 2007
George Kastrioti, also known as Skanderbeg, was a great national hero of these people:
George Kastrioti, also known as Skanderbeg, was a great national hero of these people:
George Kastrioti, also known as Skanderbeg, was a great national hero of the Albanian people who organized a league of Albanian princes in 1444. As leader of this Christian league he effectively repulsed 13 Turkish invasions from 1444 to 1466, making him a hero in the Western world. Ten years after his death in 1468, Skanderbeg?s citadel a Kruje was finally taken and Albania fell into obscurity during several centuries of Turkish rule.