In the Additional Fund of the British Library manuscripts in London, there are a considerable number of handwritten codices (nearly 451) of Epirote origin.1 At this point, four codices from the British Library have been identified2 that were written or used in the city of Berat: from the British Lib…

Every anniversary of events or of big national personalities is always a good impetus to further reflect and deepen more in their study, to extract new point-of views in their less illuminated sides.The 550 anniversary of Gjergj Kastrioti's death is such a great motive. Scanderbeg's war against the …

An adequate correlation between the historic and archaeological sources would help us to obtain new data about Scanderbeg epopee.This thing requires archaeological research in castles, fortresses or other structures, that chronologically refer to the period taken into examination. As it is only a 25…

The chronology of the written Albanian literature is above all related to the patchy texts and unique works from the content point-of-view, as each initial definition and of the presence in them of some textual elements defining the particularity and also the common thematic that makes possible a ge…

The present paper informs about two monographs on Scanderbeg, which belong to the German historiography. The first monograph is titled Georg Skanderbeg, glücklicher Vorgänger des Ali Pascha in Janina (Gjergj Scanderbeg lucky predecessor of Ali Pasha of Ioannina), and the second monograph is titled G…

Fan Noli, this Albanian eminent personality in the field of politics, literature and religion tells us in his Autobiography that when was still a student at the Adrianopolis Greek high school, during the summer holidays in his village Ibrik – Tepe, read two of the most precious books recommended by …

Ismail Kadaré s’est attaché au personnage de Scanderbeg dans trois genres d’écrits, à savoir, sauf oubli de ma part, le roman, avec Kështjella2 (1970) — rebaptisé Rrethimi dans son ultime édition3 — et Kamarja e turpit, la poésie, avec la pièce Portreti i Skënderbeut, incluse dans le recueil Koha (1…

"Gjergj Kastrioti-Scanderbeg (1405-17.01.1468) is the most important national hero and the greatest strategist and statesman of Albanians who led the war for freedom against the Ottoman occupation for the political-national union of the Albanians.2The many frequent military victories glorified Scand…

The present paper devotes some space to the period forerunning Gjergj Kastrioti's war and the following centuries, a very much discussed event among the local and foreign scholars. The quarrel between the Arbanense bishopric and the bishopric of Lezha (Alexiense-Lexiensi) about the appurtenance of a…

This year in Albania and abroad marks the celebration of the 600- birth anniversary of Gjergj Kastrioti-Scanderbeg. His place and role in the Albanian and European history are of an extraordinary importance. He organized and led for circa a quarter a century the Albanian people war against the Ottom…

If the history of a particular figure is not recounted across multiple languages, then that figure is destined to remain obscure beyond the geographical boundaries of his or her own ethnic group. In 1968, at the Second Albannological Conference dedicated to George Castriot Scanderbeg, on the 500th a…

It is of great interest to report a synthesized profile of the social status of Albanian women in the XIV – XV century, in the main civilization centers, such as Shkodra, Durrës, Ulqin, Tivar etc. In distinction from the data of the customary law, typical of the rural and mountainous areas of the Al…