The reason I have been invited to this symposium dedicated by Albania to the important personality of George Kastriotis the so-called Scanderbeg is a recent discovery I made, an unknown biography in Greek, half a century older than the one known until now as “the first Greek biography of Kastriotis”…

I take the title of this essay from the poem by Padraic Colum, entitled “Scanderbeg”, which I will be quoting in its entirety at its conclusion. Judged at least from a strictly grammatical perspective, the phrase “battling at the name of Scanderbeg” might perhaps appear to be a somewhat dubious one,…

George Kastriot Skanderbeg is well-known World figure. In the Middle Ages he was the undisputed leader in the struggle against Ottomans not only in the territories of present-day Albania and northwestern parts of Macedonia but throughout the Balkans and even wider at least in Italy and Vatican. With…

There are, in my view, three aspects to the history of Skenderbeg in the United States that need to be considered in order to put this topic into its proper perspective. These are, first, the propagation of the deeds and exploits of Albania’s national hero into Europe, and more specifically into Eng…

In the XIV-XV centuries, the Republic of Venice, or the Seignory as it is otherwise known, was a powerful political and military state of the time. It raised and strengthened as an aristocratic merchant republic in the XI century and had a powerful maritime fleet to controll the stocks circulation i…

1.- LOS PRECEDENTES MEDIEVALESLos contactos políticos y diplomáticos de los reinos de la España medieval con Albania no fueron especialmente intensos durante el Medievo, debido a la distancia geográfica, la pertenencia a dos ámbitos culturales distintos y, en el caso español, la concentración en la …

Se una qualche “curiositá ” si poteva sperare emergesse nell’anno 2018 di celebrazioni di Scanderbeg, nel sesto centenario della morte, non poteva che essere Venezia a riservarla: si dice ciò non per sciocco spirito di parte, ma perché la secolare storia di intrecci tra Albania e Venezia, che dunque…

"The use and mеаning of ethnonyms in late medieval texts is a complex scholarly issue. In this paper we try to analyze and clarify the reasons why the mentioned ancient/archaic ethnonyms and geographic names are used for naming certain late medieval Balkan inhabitants and territories in the 15th cen…

Thanks to the political individual and social system of Albania in the past, as well as the rooted habits of the lonely woman in independent provinces, women's clothing represents a great variation of shapes. There is no doubt that the oldest dress is that of the Highlands of Northern Albania, which…

Since decades, most certainly centuries, Albania and France are close to each other and this paper gives us the opportunity to recall the proximity of these two countries. At the end of the 19th century, two of the most important figures of both Greek paleography and Biblical studies, Anthimos Alexo…