SCANDERBEG

or Skanderbegboth: skănˈdərbĕg, c.1404–1468, Albanian national hero. His original name was George Castriota or Kastriotes, but the Ottomans called him Iskender Bey, and this was corrupted into Scanderbeg. The son of a prince of N Albania, he was educated in the Muslim faith as a hostage at the court of Sultan Murad II. The sultan showered favors on him and gave him the title bey and an army command. In 1443, when the Ottomans indicated they would attack Albania, Scanderbeg escaped to his homeland, abjured Islam, and formed a league of princes among the Albanian chieftains. He proclaimed himself prince of Albania. To resist the Ottomans under Sultan Muhammad II, Scanderbeg received aid at various times from Venice, Naples, Hungary, and the pope. He had success in these wars partly because of the rugged Albanian terrain and partly because he employed a mobile defense force using guerrilla methods. He withstood repeated attacks and forced the sultan to conclude a 10-year truce in 1461. Scanderbeg broke the truce in 1463 when Pope Pius II called for a new crusade. The pope's death (1464) forced abandonment of the crusade; Scanderbeg, left without allies, had to retreat to his fortress of Kroia. After his death the league dissolved, resistance collapsed, and Albania fell to the Ottomans. Scanderbeg's life is the source of many Albanian tales.

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Albanian and South Slavic Oral Epic Poetry
Book by Stavro Skendi; American Folklore Society, 1954
Subjects: Epic Poetry, Albanian--History And Criticism, Epic Poetry, Yugoslav--History And Criticism
...formed a union 1444 under the leadership of Scanderbeg, and the war against the Turks acquired...explain the similarity in the life of Scanderbeg, as told by Musachi an Albanian lord of Scanderbeg's time and Barletius, by supposing...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Vol. 7
Book by Edward Gibbon, J. B. Bury; Methuen, 1900
Subjects: Byzantine Empire--History, Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D
...the list of heroes, John Huniades and Scanderbeg are commonly associated 39 ; and they...empire. John Castriot, the father of Scanderbeg, 40 was the hereditary prince of a...Amurath, and his Turkish appellation of Scanderbeg Iskender beg , or the lord Alexander...
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The Later Crusades, 1274-1580: From Lyons to Alcazar
Book by Norman Housley; Oxford University Press, 1992
Subjects: Crusades, Europe--History--1492-1648, Europe--History--476-1492
...Balkans. Forming an objective picture of Scanderbeg has not been helped by the fact that...assess is the degree of assistance which Scanderbeg received from the West. The papacy...possible that the Curia only provided Scanderbeg with about 20,000 ducats in all...
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One Europe, Many Nations: A Historical Dictionary of European National Groups
Book by James B. Minahan; Greenwood Press, 2000
Subjects: Ethnology--Europe--Dictionaries, Europe--History--Dictionaries
...hero, George Castriota, called Scanderbeg, in the fifteenth century united...for the modern Albanian flag, Scanderbeg forced the Turkish sultan to enter...year truce. Two years later, Scanderbeg broke the truce when Pope Pius...
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The Poems of Richard Lovelace
Book by C. H. Wilkinson, Richard Lovelace; The Clarendon Press, 1925
Subjects: English Poetry--17th Century
...priuiledge during their liues which Scanderbeg by the gift and grace of God onely and...Historie of George Castriot, Surnamed Scanderbeg, King of Albanie . Containing his famous...the Epistle before The Medal , 1682. Scanderbeg 1403-69 , the last king of Albania...
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Floridoro: A Chivalric Romance
Journal article by Nathalie Hester; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 60, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Floridoro: A Chivalric Romance (Book)--Book reviews, Scanderbeide: The Heroic Deeds of George Scanderbeg, King of Epirus (Book)--Book reviews, Zayde: A Spanish Romance, the Other Voice in Early Modern Europe (Book)--Book reviews
...226-25677-4 (cl), 0-226-25678-2 (pbk). Margherita Sarrocchi. Scanderbeide: The Heroic Deeds of George Scanderbeg, King of Epirus. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Ed. and trans. Rinaldina Russell. Chicago: The University...
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Of Blood and Blindness: Islam and Huguenot Identity in Aubigne's "Jugement" (Tragiques VII)
Journal article by Marcus Keller; Romance Notes, Vol. 48, 2008
Subjects: Aubigne, Theodore-Agrippa d'--Criticism and interpretation, Christian-Muslim relations--History, Christian-Muslim relations--Portrayals, Christianity and other religions--History, Christianity and other religions--Islam, Christianity and other religions--Portrayals, Les Tragiques (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Criticism and interpretation
...Protestant virtue with the Albanian prince Scanderbeg and his recovery of true identity...Turkish occupation of the Balkans, Scanderbeg was widely known in the Renaissance...Christianity was so fascinated with Scanderbeg because he fought against the Turk and...
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Conquering Turk in Carnival Nürnberg: Hans Rosenplüt's "des Turken Vasnachtspil" of 1456
Journal article by Martin W. Walsh; Fifteenth Century Studies, Vol. 36, 2011
...captured. 1463 Venice declares war on the Sultan (allied with Hungary and Scanderbeg in Albania) / Ottomans conquer Bosnia. 1466 Successful Ottoman campaign against Scanderbeg in Albania. 1467 Ottomans conquer Herzegovina. 1479 Venice sues for...
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The Teaching of Albanian at Columbia University
Journal article by Peter Prifti, Rafaela Kondi; East European Quarterly, Vol. 34, 2000
Subjects: Albanians, Columbia University--Curricula, Language and languages--Study and teaching
...author of a full-length biography of Albanias national hero, Scanderbeg.(1) Moore was fascinated by Albanias medieval warrior...NOTES (1.) Clement C. Moore, George Castriot--Surnamed Scanderbeg, King of Albania, 1850. (2.) Columbia University Bulletin...
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Exercise for Mind and Body: Giulio Mancini, Collecting, and the Beholding of Landscape Painting in the Seventeenth Century
Journal article by Frances Gage; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 61, 2008
Subjects: Art, Renaissance, Exercise--History, Exercise--Methods, Mancini, Giulio--Works, Painting (Art)--Health aspects, Painting (Art)--Psychological aspects, Painting--Health aspects, Painting--Psychological aspects, Physicians--Works, Renaissance art, Walking--Health aspects
...Rinaldina. "Margherita Sarrocchi and the Writing of the Scanderbeide." In Scanderbeide: The Heroic Deeds of George Scanderbeg, King of Epirus, ed. Rinaldina Russell, 1-44. Chicago, 2006. Salerno, Luigi. "Commence In Giulio Mancini, Considerazioni...
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Shostakovich, Kadaré and the Nature of Dissidence: an Albanian View
Magazine article by Eno Koço; Musical Times, Vol. 146, Spring 2005
Subjects: Albania, Composers, Composition, Kadare, Ismail, Musical criticism, Musicology, Shostakovich, Dimitri (1906-75)
...Albanian rhapsody by Murat Shehu (1937), the tone poem Scanderbeg, Le Pauvre Gaspard for tenor and orchestra, the Albanian...other major vocal and orchestral works, the symphonic poem Scanderbeg for full orchestra, based on Longfellows poem of the same...
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Babel all'Italiana
Magazine article by Patricia Corbett; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 273, May 1994
Subjects: Ethnic groups--Italy, Italy, Language and languages, Language policy--Italy
...waves as hired-soldiers-cum-settlers. Among the earliest colonists was the scourge of the Turks, Giorgio Castriota Scanderbeg, whom Ferrante dAragonia invited to put down roots in Apulia with his troops; the last colony was founded in 1744 in Abruzzo...


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encyclopedia articles on: Scanderbeg  - 9 results

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Scanderbeg
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SCANDERBEG or Skanderbeg both: skan d rbeg, c...Iskender Bey, and this was corrupted into Scanderbeg. The son of a prince of N Albania...indicated they would attack Albania, Scanderbeg escaped to his homeland, abjured Islam...
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Calixtus III
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...nothing to aid John Hunyadi , who won a victory with St. John Capistran at Belgrade (1456). In 1457, Calixtus turned to Scanderbeg , in Albania, sent him money, and named him captain general of the crusade. Calixtus reign was embittered by a quarrel...
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Muhammad II , Ottoman Sultan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Crimea became his ally and vassal. However, his further advance was checked at Belgrade by John Hunyadi , in Albania by Scanderbeg until 1478, and in Rhodes by the Knights Hospitalers under Aubusson . In Asia, Muhammad annexed the empire of Trebizond...
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TiranË
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...mined nearby. A railroad and highway link Tirane with the port city of Durres, its chief outlet. The center of the city is Scanderbeg Square, with the government buildings and the 18th-century mosque of Etchem Bey. The bazaar and the mosque of Sulayman...
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Albania
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Turks, a son of one of these chieftains received the title Iskender Bey (Lord Alexander), which in Albanian became Scanderbeg . Later, however, he led the Albanian resistance to Turkish domination and, after his death in 1468, was immortalized...
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