"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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

Political events contribute a small part of the historical context when describing and analyzing the political history of any period. The science of history is a set of specified relationships encompassing different historic matters that focus and organize inquiry to describe, explain, and predict d…

This paper investigates the appropriation of the legendary figure of George Castriota Scanderbeg by Enver Hoxha since the earliest days of Albania’s communist regime. To this end, I am analyzing from an iconological perspective the juxtaposition of Enver Hoxha and George Castriota Scanderbeg’s image…

 In the seventies of the past century, Pier Paolo Pasolini considered the Albanian phenomenon “an anthropologic miracle”, as he openly confessed the surprise he was caught by while listening to his interlocutor, the priest, and the Albanian Albanologist Zef (Giuseppe) Faraco. For the great Ital…

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…

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,…