George Kastrioti, also known as Skanderbeg, was a great national hero of these people:
Albanians
Bosnians
Turks
Serbs
Croats
Albanians.
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.
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