Thank you very much for being with us! 300k! It is such an unbelievable number, we are honestly lost for words. Just know that, we appreciate you and will work even harder to provide more and better content! Participate in the survey and let us know what you think goo.gl/AxhqhA On September 7, we will be conducting a quiz among our viewers. This event will test your historical knowledge and put you up against other like-minded enthusiasts. Check it out here: facebook.com/events/1660241587419320/ Regarding this video: Many events that happened during the rebellion of Skanderbeg were covered in our the past videos (bit.ly/2osUuZw), so we decided not to repeat them again. This series is really hard to make - a million little things should be accounted for.
@HELLENIC NATIONALISM welp did u ever heard about Andreas palailogos the last byzantine emperor heir gave away his claim to the imperial title for spanish monarch? this time to Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile
@HELLENIC NATIONALISM good work along of venetian, Austrian,and hre. Well let's talk about ,What empire should be the rightful succesor of roman empire.if we assumed they should be till today , Spanish,russian, ottoman,greek , french? Or?
@Leo what happened if there no venetian, Austrian, and hre at the end of the day😂😂😂roman empire falls at 5th or 15th,but let's talk about ,What empire should be the rightful succesor of roman empire.if we assumed they should be till today , Spanish,russian, ottoman,greek , french? Or?
Skanderbeg king of the Balkans together with the Hungarians, he fought harder against Turkey while the Serbian king married the sultan's daughter and betrayed the princes who fought the Turk
Unë jam Arbëreshë. I am Arbëreshë. We are the Descents of Skanderbeg's Army living in Italy. Our major group of villages are in Calabria. My Town is Santa Sofia d'Epiro. 🇦🇱☦🇮🇹 We preserve a 600 year old Language, the customs, traditions, cuisine, clothing, and Above All, the Faith of Christ ☦ Mirumpfashim, Thanasi 🇦🇱☦🇮🇹
I am from Kosova. My dream and plan for the future is to visit the Arberesh towns of Calabria and meet my blood brothers. I have the most profound respect for Arberesh who guarded Scanderbeg's legacy!
This guy managed to survive an attack from Murad II, defeated or survived against more or less 10 Ottoman armies over the years that outnumbers him, and even hold back Mehmed II, the one that conquered Constantinople. He basically gave a lot of time to Europe to prepare against a very powerful empire. It's not an exaggeration that Mehmed II called him 'a shield of Europe'.
The original name of the family of Kastrioti (Castriota) was Merzeku. Kastriot, Kastrat in Has (🇦🇱), Kastrat in Dibra (🇦🇱) or the microtoponym "Kostur" near the village of Mazrek in the Has region. Source 📜:Bela 2019, p. 229. In connection to the Kastrioti family name, it is very likely that the name of one the different Kastriot or Kastrat which were fortified settlements as their etymology shows (castrum = Latin) was as their family name. The Kastrioti may have originated from this village (🇦🇱) or probably had acquired it as pronoia. Source 📜: Omari 2014, p. 44 Angelo used the cognomen Meserechus in reference to Skanderbeg and this link to the same name is produced in other sources and reproduced in later ones like Du Cange's Historia Byzantina (1680). Source📜 : Malaj 2013, p. 43 These links highlight that the Kastrioti used Mazreku as a name that highlighted their tribal affiliation (farefisni). Source 📜: Malaj 2013, p. 44 The name Mazrek(u), which means horse breeder in Albanian, is found throughout ALL Albanian regions 🇦🇱. Source📜 : Malaj 2013, p. 45. The Kastrioti themselves where organised in a tribal structure and formed a fis or clan/tribe. Source📜 : Gall, Timothy L.; Hobby, Janeen (2009). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life: Europe. p. 27. Gjergj Kastriot Scanderbeg ( 31, October, 1460 ) : Moreover, you scorn our people, claiming the Albanians 🇦🇱 as nothing more than sheep, and according to your customs think of us with only insults. It would seem you know nothing of the origins of our race. Our elders were the Epirotes from whence Pyrrhus himself came forth, the might of whom the Romans could barely withstand. Those very Epirotes whom with their weapons set forth and conquered Taranto and much of Italy. There exists no challenge to their might from the likes of the Tarentines, a species of wet men born only to catch fish. And since you proclaim Albania 🇦🇱 a part of Macedonia, you grant also then, our elders as nobles who went as far as India under Alexander the Great, defeating all the peoples that came before them with great ease. From those men descend these who you call sheep. But the nature of things is not changed. Why do your men run away in the faces of sheep?" Source📜 : Book VI or Pope Pius the II's Comentaries. Origin of the name "Shqiptar" and Epirus = More concise on the issue, the only Nobel Prize in history 🎓 is none other than Theodor Mommsen 🥇 author of the cycle "Corpus of the inscriptions of antiquity" who says that: - "the brave Epirotes, the Albanians 🇦🇱 of antiquity supported with traditional loyalty the young and brave Pyrrhus or "the Eagle" as they called him" . Let us point out in this regard that the Albanians call themselves "Shqiptar", i.e. "sons or children of the Eagle". The soldiers of Pyrrhus (3rd century BC / Epirote King), called their King "the Eagle" and that the latter gave them back one day that they were his "children", so the Albanians are the children of the Eagle... "Shqiptar = child of the Eagle .... " . (Pyrrhus was the cousin of Alexander the Great, of the Molossian tribe and himself an ambitious conqueror, Pyrrhus is one of the most formidable opponents of the early days of ancient Rome). Let's not forget that nes Epirotes were an Illyrian tribe (🇦🇱) and not Greeks! There is also another interpretation of this ethnonym: the Eagle was one of the symbols of Zeus, Pelasgian god (🇦🇱) by excellence (source📜: cf Homer Iliad XVI,234). The Albanians would thus be the "sons of Zeus" thus "sons of the Eagle". Besides, these last ones (Albanians), whatever their religion, still call their God Zot (Zeus = Zojz = Zot), thus recalling the divine name of Zeus. On the other hand the word Shqip, before becoming an etnhonym (Shqiptar), has always designated the "Albanian language" (language shqip = clear language). Precision: Zeus was not a Greek god! (propaganda which it is spread)... Zeus was a Pelasgian god (🇦🇱) Example : Achilles : " Zeus, sovereign lord, O prince of Dodona, O you Pelasgic Zeus (🇦🇱), distant god who rules over Dodona, in this rough country of Selles... " Source📜: Homer, Iliad, XVI,233/234. Achilles did not say: Zeus the Greek, Zeus the Hellene or Zeus the Mycenaean... Then why in the school books, one qualifies Zeus of Greek? (just with this quotation, one realizes that modern historiography is not honest) Karl O.Müller: The more intelligence will enter the history of Greece, the more attention will be paid to the Pelasgic element sacrificed until now. Source📜 : (Prolegomena-1825) Epirus = Historically, tribes like the Molossians or others that made up Epirus like the Kaons, Thesprotians, Paraue, Antintans and others, are historically linked to the Illyrian (🇦🇱) culture or part of it. As Thucydides tells us about the events of the Peloponnesian War, which involved both actually Illyrians and Illyria itself, these tribes were commonly considered barbarian (non-Greek) tribes. Thucydides: - "Among the barbarians there were about 1,000 Kaons who ruled without a king. In addition to the Kaons, the Thesprotians also participated and were also governed without a king. There were also the MOLOSSIANS, the Atintants and the Paraues. Source 📜: ( HISTORY OF THE WAR OF THE PELOPONNESE ) All these tribes, mentioned by the historian of Athenian origin Thucydides for their participation in the famous war of Peloponnese in the 5th century BC, are considered as barbarians, thus not Greek! Source 📜: ( Thucydides II, 80- IV, 126 ) The Kaons, the Thesprotians of Chamerie, the Arintans and the Parauets constitute the backbone of what was called Epirus. Among them appear of course the Molossians where are the roots of the family of the mother of Alexander the Great! And Thucydides is not the only source which defines the Epirotes like non-Greeks. There are many others! According to the encyclopedia Basic Antiquity, composed of 86 volumes... Pauly Wissowa the real "Encyclopedia Alterumswissenschaft📜" says that the Epirotes are of Illyrian origin 🇦🇱 and have strong ties to the population of southern Italy! Whether or not the Epirotes are Illyrians is a discussion that, from an archaeological point of view, is resolved. The Epirotes and the Illyrians have the same culture, if we consider the Iron Age, the use of tombs, the fortifications with several rows of walls, their material culture, the shape of the pots or the ornaments which are identical to those of Korça (present Albania) and the religion. Not only ancient authors such as Thucydides, Strabo and others have called the Epirotic tribes barbarians (non-Greek), but later serious publications based on documents and archaeological findings point in the same direction. The Molosses were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from which came the mother of Alexander the Great, Olympias, daughter of the king and sister of Alexander the Great. The Molosses were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great, Olympias, daughter of the king, and the sister of another well known Illyrian prince, Alexander the Molossus. Moreover the Greek armed forces committed an atrocious genocide on the Albanian civil population of Epirus (Çameria)!
Ethnicity = Skanderbeg himself defined himself as Albanian ( Ethnicity ) (handwritten letter). Ex : " Ioannes Antonius princeps Taranti Georgio Albano salutem " = Georgio the Albanian 🇦🇱 salutes the prince Giovanni of Taranto . Source 📜: (Pope Pius II , Commentarii) The same prince Giovanni Antonio described Skanderbeg as "Georgio Albano".. Geography = Skanderbeg always signed himself as "Dominus Albaniae" (Albanian: Zot i Arbërisë, English: Lord of Albania🇦🇱) Source 📜: Frazee, Charles A. (22 June 2006). Catholics and Sultans: The Church and the Ottoman Empire 1453-1923. Cambridge University Press. p. 33. The House of Kastrioti (Albanian: Dera e Kastriotëve) was an Albanian noble family, active in the 14th and 15th centuries as the rulers of the Principality of Kastrioti. At the beginning of the 15th century, the family controlled a territory in the Mat and Dibra regions. Exemple : Great grandfather = Kostandin Kastrioti Mazreku (died ca. 1390) was an Albanian 🇦🇱 regional ruler in parts of the wider Mat and Dibër areas. Grandfather = Pal Kastrioti was an Albanian 🇦🇱 medieval ruler in the latter part of the 14th century in northern Albania. Source 📜: Genealogy of the Kastrioti family, Du Cange (1680), Historia Byzantina duplici commentario Even the Serbs of the time considered Skanderbeg as Albanian, his father (Gjon) was buried in an Orthodox monastery, the Serbs named the tower where he is buried "Albanian tower 🇦🇱"... source📜 : ( Himelstir. p. 45 ) Moreover, even the descendants of Skanderbeg from the Arbëresh community qualify as Albanians 🇦🇱 and not as Serbs ... Example : Shopie Castriota, loris Castriota etc ... Alessandro Cutolo ( Italian historian ) : " Gjon ( father of Skanderbeg ) married Princess Vojsava, the daughter of another excellent Albanian🇦🇱 leader, the Lord of Polog " . Source 📜: in is work "Skanderbeg" , p.20, published in Milan (Italy) in 1940. His mother ( Skanderbeg )came from the Muzaka family (Albanian) and not from the Brankovic family ... Father was Gjon Kastrioti, son of Pal Kastrioti. Mother was Voisava from the Muzaka-Family (as stated in the memoires of Gjon Muzaka written sometime before 1510) Documents from that time only state that she was an albanian. There are no serbian documents that state she was serbian. In his memoires Gjon Muzaka (before 1510) wrote that she is a muzaka. We only have two sources from that era that give us a hint of her origin. One is geographically and the other is ethnically . Geographic source: barleti wrote that it was from polog. Member of a noble house and tribal leader. Why tribal and not Serbian? First of all, the triballi were an ancient Thraco-Illyrian ( Albanian ) tribe. The same name was again used in the Middle Ages / Byzantine era for the inhabitants of the ancient tribal area. All the people who lived in this area were called triballi (Albanians, Bulgarians and Serbs). (And let's not forget that the Tribalians were Slavised for the majority ... But remained Thraco-Illyrian/Albanian in their blood ...) Today, the majority of Albanians in Macedonia live in the Polog region (the eastern part of Macedonia). Exemple : Appianus Alexandrinus (is a Greek historien of the Roman period) who qualified the Triballians of "Illyrian origin". Source📜 : "historia Romana". Stephanus of Byzantium ( Great lexicographer of Constantinople, lived in the 6 th century), was written in the year 528-545, declares that the "Triballians are Illyrian. Source : From Urbibus and Populis. Other authors such as Strabo, Pliny, Ptolemy and Dion Cassius, state that the Triballians are of Thraco-Illyrian origin ( Pelasgians/Albanian ) Ethnical source: Gjon Muzaka wrote in his memoires that she was a muzaka. I think with the latter source we should conclude this whole discussion. As it is a very close source - chronological and physical. The person in this case Gjon Muzaka knew Voisava personally and he fought besides Skanderbeg and skanderbegs son. So he wouldnt dare to write something he would later regret right ? He wrote those memoires sometime before 1510 so basically before the book of barleti was printed.
@Zeni Nimoni Stupid guy, "Bey" is a term used for governorship in the Ottoman Empire. For example, when the "Beyi" of Egypt appoints a governor of an Ottoman land, "Bey" comes next to the man's name. "Sir" and Lord are not in the same sense.
How have I never heard of him before!?!? We praise "great" generals who always had numerical superiority and more advanced weapons but this man had neither AND STILL WON EVERY BATTLE!
@more options forget everything bro, now I read what I wrote and this is from 3 years ago I regret cause I was a kid back then 😂😂 I’m very sorry that I have offended our nation, now I just dream of coming back one day
@DJ G yes but he was named from vatican athlet of christ only him and achile have this tittle and he saved all world from ottomans in those years..and he was fighting with max 5000 soldiers 😂 but often only with 1000 soldier but they was like navy seal 😂
@𐔟𐔓𐔍𐔠𐔇𐔙𐔛𐔀𐔐 In 1854, an Austrian diplomat and Albanian language specialist, Johann Georg von Hahn, identified the Pelasgian language with Proto-Albanian. This theory is not supported by any scientific evidence, and is seen as a myth by modern scholars Mackridge, Peter (2007-2008). "Aspects of language and identity in the Greek peninsula since the eighteenth century". The Newsletter of the Society Farsarotul. Vol. XXI & XXII, no. 1 & 2. Society Farsarotul. pp. 16-17. Soon after this the "Pelasgian theory" was formulated, according to which the Greek and Albanian languages were claimed to have a common origin in Pelasgian, while the Albanians themselves are Pelasgians and hence come from the same ethnological stock as the Greeks. The "Pelasgian theory" began to take shape in the 1850s and 1860s and became widespread in the 1870s. ... Needless to say, there is absolutely no scientific evidence to support any of these theories. Schwandner-Sievers & Fischer 2002; Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers and Bernd Jürgen Fischer, editors of Albanian Identities: Myth and History, present papers resulting from the London Conference held in 1999 entitled "The Role of Myth in the History and Development of Albania." The "Pelasgian" myth of Albanians as the most ancient community in southeastern Europe is among those explored in Noel Malcolm's essay, "Myths of Albanian National Identity: Some Key Elements, As Expressed in the Works of Albanian Writers in America in the Early Twentieth Century". The introductory essay by Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers establishes the context of the "Pelasgian Albanian" mythos, applicable to Eastern Europe generally, in terms of the longing for a stable identity in a rapidly opening society.
@sphere mechanical D Martini Don't be sorry at all.The islam of albanians is not a radical one but in general it's superficial.There were some reasons for that and the main ones were the carier, holding arms and to escape the terror of serbs who pressed them to convert from cathlics to orthodox faith.Anyway albanians are muslims,christian orthodox and cathlics and a great part,maybe the greater don't believe at all.They live the life of a normal european with all the attitudes of the western world.There is a propaganda by serbs and greeks about the islamic risc by the albanians to justify the occupation of albanian territories like Kosova and South Epirus granted to them after the FWwar together the territories of Macedonia and Montenegro.Greetings!
@arben geci I thought u were turks.Well let's talk about ,What empire should be the rightful succesor of roman empire.if we assumed they should be till today , Spanish,russian, ottoman,greek , french? Or?
Skanderbeg was raised in Ottoman palaces and fought for the Ottoman army. Therefore, he achieved success against the Ottomans. It's easy to ambush the enemy anyway, as the Albanian terrain is hilly.
You know you're a legend when not even 100,000 troops can defeat you when you have barely a quarter of that. Skanderbeg was a great man, one of the greatest resistance fighters in history. Every Christian and European should pay their respect to him.
In central London (Bayswater), Skanderbeg has a statue saying his full name and birth-death date along with this “invincible Albanian national hero, defender of western civilization.”
@Zeljko Stanisic albania before otoman was split in roman cristian the north and South albania are are orthodox. This is becouse roman empire was split in Western and east empire. The line was part of the north in Milot. So Mirdita scutary half o mountin region remained as Cristiian becouse otomans didn dare to approach to them.
@godi8 vezér Although we have fought over the concept of religion in the past, our origins are actually the same. The majority of Hungarians today are Cuman Kipchak Turks, and we, as Turks of Turkey, are half Oghuz half Kipchak Turks. Sending my love to fellow HUNgarians!
Serbians talk about the battle of Kosovo, claiming Kosovo belongs to Serbia because of this fight. But Serbia lost that battle! Meanwhile, Skanderbeg and Albania actually won during his battle in Kosovo, not to mention a dozen other battles!
Without a doubt, Skanderbeg was a great warrior to not only Albanians, but to Europe itself. Even if his small Kingdom would fall, it sat together because of him. That is how powerful and great this man was to a degree.. Huge respect
@nez perce no it’s tough being Serbian actually. Because I am proud to be Albanian and call myself so. On the contrary you want to take pride with a hero that has no relation whatsoever with your country. Now think again.
@nez perce oh yeah? What was written in Latin? That he was a Serb? Lmfao. You might as well need to make an appointment with your local doctor to check your eye sight. I feel sorry for you. Hope you get better though.
@nez perce yes in his letter sent to Pope he called himself “George Kastrioti Albanese” “Gjergj Kastrioti the Albanian”. I don’t see where tf does the serb come in this topic though? Keep reading and ask yourself again wtf am I saying.
I heard and witnessed certain evidence whuch indicate that ethnically Skanderbeg was not Albanian but a Greco-Serbian whose family owned land in Albania. I won't make any conclusions just yet, however I will assume this a possibility and has certain facts supporting it, for example: Kastriot is a Greek name from "Kastro', for castle or fortress. His mother had a name of slavic origins 'Vojslava', and his father may have had relatiosn to the Brankovic family. He may have adressed himself as 'Albanian in his letters', but keep in mind this is the 15th century and the concept of national identity didn't develop, his title as 'Prince of the Albanians' was to justify his authority and claim over the lands he ruled.
During the dark sieges of Kruje, when morale was at its lowest, it was Skanderbeg’s speeches that empowered the soldiers and uplifted their spirits. He became a grand symbol of Albanian national unity, freedom, faith, solidarity and identity.
@Slavic Star The father of the Serbian nation Dobrica Cosic considers the ability to lie and lying to be the highest moral virtue of the Serbian people and the foundation of foundation of Serbian pride. Here is a direct quote from Dobrica Cosic: "Lying is the greatest virtue of the Serbian people". Dobrica Cosic continues and says: "We lie to deceive ourselves... To console others, we lie to fight fear, to encourage ourselves, to hide our misery... Lying is a trait of our patriotism and the proof of our innate intelligence. We lie in a creative, imaginative and inventive way". Source : Deobe The Second Battle of Kosovo (October 17-October 20, 1448) pitted a coalition of the Kingdom of Hungary and Wallachia led by John Hunyadi, against an Ottoman-led coalition under Sultan Murad II at Kosovo Polje. The Albanian troops under Skanderbeg (🇦🇱 Albanian 🦅), wanted to help the Hungarians, but Đurađ Branković (Serbian 🇷🇸), then ALLIED to Sultan Murad II (Ottoman), prevented the Albanian troops under Skanderbeg from helping the Hungarians... Source: Sedlar, Jean W. (1994). University of Washington Press. p. 393 As a result, Skanderbeg (🇦🇱) ravaged the estates of Branković (🇷🇸) as punishment for desertion of the Christian cause. Consequence = defeat of the Hungarians ... Source📜: Kenneth, Setton (1997) [1978] Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. p. 100.
Had heard of Skanderberg before, but hadn't known about him in this much detail. Great general and great warrior, respect where it's due, greetings from Turkey.
@Game testing lab Christianity Islam and Judaism are three branches of the same tree of Abrahamic/ lbrahim relegion that came to Europe from the arabian deserts my friend. They all share the same root o semitic peoples. Jesus was hebrew and Mohamed was an arab that come from the same ancestor Abraham/ lbrahim they are brothers from same father and two different mothers. Abraham had two sons, Ismael with Hagar( from which became the arab people) and lsaac with Sarah ( from which became jewish people) so whichever religion you follow( be it Judaism Christianity or lslam) you still follow a religion that comes from semitic people in arabian desert. None of them is strictly and "pure" European. Everybody is free to have personal preference. Albanians are known as the most tolerant people when it comes to religion because they value ethnicity and bloodline over any religion. For albanians beeing an Albanian is a religion in itself. Stay well neighbour
@Why? Whyyy? Why wouldn't they? The Serbian lord gave his sister to the Sultan to warm his harem. Serbs were tactical geniuses where they would hand their sisters and daughters to Turks right off the bat and that made the Turks weak on the knees. Thus they kept Serbs close to them for two centuries. The mofos even fought for the Turks in Anatolia. The level of commitment...
in belgium in brussels more precisely schaerbeek, there is a statue of him in his honor mentioned his date of birth and his death, because this man was really a warrior and a strategist. respect to the strong and proud Albanian people
I'm an Italo-Albanian,better known as Arbëreshe people,and I can confirm that Skanderbeg is like a God to us.Greetings to the people of Albania and Kosova 🇦🇱🇽🇰🇮🇹
@Jana Kolašinac you have a lot of theories and all are confuse like your brain duo by serbian propaganda. Albanian are autoctonus like the language with is mostly latin influnce, and geneticly with almost zero influence from Asia fortunaly. You cant avoid the historical facts with the porpose to be something that you never been. I will not even waste my time to correct all your theories with historical facts, international experts and peerper view articles. Even my surname is an anciet illyrian city, and based to the church archives, being catholich, for centuries we never been even close in some mix to slavic people and iam from north. Cheers
@HELLENIC NATIONALISM Again, you are not judging upon the concrete facts but upon your wished facts. And this is your problem. “Emotions manipulate our perception of the world” says Sartre and that prevents you to accept the facts and to put into question your opinion about the origin of Albanians. You just reflect the unfounded claims of Greek nationalists of the 19th and 20th century that: 1) Albanians are nothing but Albanian-speaking Turks and Arabs; 2) the Arvanit are only Albanian-speaking or Albanian-singing Greeks; and 3) the same you apply for the Arnavut (= Arbanite = Arvanit = Arbëresh) in Turkey. It is useless to discuss further, because it is like a dialogue between deaf people. All the best!
@ahmet turkmen before skenderbeu served ottoman albanians resisted too not just after but he really destroyed ottomans for good that ottomans did not even dream to conquer europe
@G. H. your tiny little people cannot conquer Europe. Don’t be too excited. Ottomans did utilise albanians and nothing changed. Skanderbeg served in the ottoman army for 20 years. Did he conquer Europe no? Albanian Janissaries were in the Ottoman army. did they conquer Europe? No.
@Arvin Shkozayou sure lol many battles did gayaturk win? Skanderbeg massacred over 400k Turks while only losing under 20k lol memhed the second was getting fucked by him.
I am a Turk but i have a deep respect for skanderbeg He was proud of Albanians Even Turkish Sultan Mehmed 2 had a deep respect for him too Greetings to Albanians Nice people of the balkans
@Miran Krka epiriotes was the name given to the Albanians by the Greeks. Romans gave us the name ilirioum that doesn’t mean the people of Albania agreed with the names given to them. In Albania we call ourselves Sqiptar, a word invented by the double headed eagle we have as our flag. ‘Shqiponje’ in Albanian means eagle
wtf? never heard of this guy in my history books back in school. Skanderbeg deserved a whole book, not just a chapter. yet not even his name was mentioned. stupid school
Of course, it is Đurađ Kastriot, the Serbian hero from the royal family of Branković, of noble origin, whom the Albanians appropriated as a national hero. Look for the truth and you will find it.
@Ana B. You tell me that Skanderbeg's father (etc) was buried in Hilandar... So what? In his honor St. George, the tower of the monastery in Hilandar was known as the "Albanian tower🇦🇱" in reference to its Albanian origins . Source: Slijepčević, Đoko M. (1983). Srpsko-arbanaški odnosi kroz vekove sa posebnim osvrtom na novije vreme (in Serbian). Himelstir. p. 45 .
How is this dude not as famous as Vlad the Impaler or any other general who opposed the Ottomans? He achieved much more, with less resources, against greater odds at the height of Ottoman's strenght while they were being led by some of the greatest leaders that any Islamic nation has ever had. Dude should be canonized as a saint, "defender of christianity" or something.
Bro only him and achile are named from vatican athlet of christ so he is very famous and he was doing damage he was all time hit and run thats the key 😂
@TURKISH ETRUSCAN KNIGHT Scanderbeg was helping Ferdinand the Naples King at the Time. His nephew led the army but he Betrayed Scanderbeg just like Muzaka in Berat
@Efe temporary setbacks lol the amount of times people like skanderbeg in Europe slaughtered ottoman armies is embarrassing, ottomans only recovered because of the mass armies they could put together but most of the time even when outnumbering their enemy they got their asses kicked.
The Second Battle of Kosovo (October 17-October 20, 1448) pitted a coalition of the Kingdom of Hungary and Wallachia led by John Hunyadi, against an Ottoman-led coalition under Sultan Murad II at Kosovo Polje. The Albanian troops under Skanderbeg (🇦🇱 Albanian 🦅), wanted to help the Hungarians, but Đurađ Branković (Serbian 🇷🇸), then ALLIED to Sultan Murad II (Ottoman), prevented the Albanian troops under Skanderbeg from helping the Hungarians... Source: Sedlar, Jean W. (1994). University of Washington Press. p. 393 As a result, Skanderbeg (🇦🇱) ravaged the estates of Branković (🇷🇸) as punishment for desertion of the Christian cause. Consequence = defeat of the Hungarians ... Source: Kenneth, Setton (1997) [1978] Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. p. 100.
The father of the Serbian nation Dobrica Cosic considers the ability to lie and lying to be the highest moral virtue of the Serbian people and the foundation of foundation of Serbian pride. Here is a direct quote from Dobrica Cosic: "Lying is the greatest virtue of the Serbian people". Dobrica Cosic continues and says: "We lie to deceive ourselves... To console others, we lie to fight fear, to encourage ourselves, to hide our misery... Lying is a trait of our patriotism and the proof of our innate intelligence. We lie in a creative, imaginative and inventive way". Source : Deobe
The Second Battle of Kosovo (October 17-October 20, 1448) pitted a coalition of the Kingdom of Hungary and Wallachia led by John Hunyadi, against an Ottoman-led coalition under Sultan Murad II at Kosovo Polje. The Albanian troops under Skanderbeg (🇦🇱 Albanian 🦅), wanted to help the Hungarians, but Đurađ Branković (Serbian 🇷🇸), then ALLIED to Sultan Murad II (Ottoman), prevented the Albanian troops under Skanderbeg from helping the Hungarians... Source: Sedlar, Jean W. (1994). University of Washington Press. p. 393 As a result, Skanderbeg (🇦🇱) ravaged the estates of Branković (🇷🇸) as punishment for desertion of the Christian cause. Consequence = defeat of the Hungarians ... Source: Kenneth, Setton (1997) [1978] Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. p. 100.
Origin of the name "Shqiptar" and Epirus = More concise on the issue, the only Nobel Prize in history 🎓 is none other than Theodor Mommsen 🥇 author of the cycle "Corpus of the inscriptions of antiquity" who says that: - "the brave Epirotes, the Albanians 🇦🇱 of antiquity supported with traditional loyalty the young and brave Pyrrhus or "the Eagle" as they called him" . Let us point out in this regard that the Albanians call themselves "Shqiptar", i.e. "sons or children of the Eagle". The soldiers of Pyrrhus (3rd century BC / Epirote King), called their King "the Eagle" and that the latter gave them back one day that they were his "children", so the Albanians are the children of the Eagle... "Shqiptar = child of the Eagle .... " . (Pyrrhus was the cousin of Alexander the Great, of the Molossian tribe and himself an ambitious conqueror, Pyrrhus is one of the most formidable opponents of the early days of ancient Rome). Let's not forget that nes Epirotes were an Illyrian tribe (🇦🇱) and not Greeks! There is also another interpretation of this ethnonym: the Eagle was one of the symbols of Zeus, Pelasgian god (🇦🇱) by excellence (source: cf Homer Iliad XVI,234). The Albanians would thus be the "sons of Zeus" thus "sons of the Eagle". Besides, these last ones (Albanians), whatever their religion, still call their God Zot (Zeus = Zojz = Zot), thus recalling the divine name of Zeus. On the other hand the word Shqip, before becoming an etnhonym (Shqiptar), has always designated the "Albanian language" (language shqip = clear language). Precision: Zeus was not a Greek god! (propaganda which it is spread)... Zeus was a Pelasgian god (🇦🇱) Example : Achilles : " Zeus, sovereign lord, O prince of Dodona, O you Pelasgic Zeus (🇦🇱), distant god who rules over Dodona, in this rough country of Selles... " Source: Homer, Iliad, XVI,233/234. Achilles did not say: Zeus the Greek, Zeus the Hellene or Zeus the Mycenaean... Then why in the school books, one qualifies Zeus of Greek? (just with this quotation, one realizes that modern historiography is not honest) Karl O.Müller: The more intelligence will enter the history of Greece, the more attention will be paid to the Pelasgic element sacrificed until now. Source : (Prolegomena-1825) Epirus = Historically, tribes like the Molossians or others that made up Epirus like the Kaons, Thesprotians, Paraue, Antintans and others, are historically linked to the Illyrian (🇦🇱) culture or part of it. As Thucydides tells us about the events of the Peloponnesian War, which involved both actually Illyrians and Illyria itself, these tribes were commonly considered barbarian (non-Greek) tribes. Thucydides: - "Among the barbarians there were about 1,000 Kaons who ruled without a king. In addition to the Kaons, the Thesprotians also participated and were also governed without a king. There were also the MOLOSSIANS, the Atintants and the Paraues. Source : ( HISTORY OF THE WAR OF THE PELOPONNESE ) All these tribes, mentioned by the historian of Athenian origin Thucydides for their participation in the famous war of Peloponnese in the 5th century BC, are considered as barbarians, thus not Greek! Source : ( Thucydides II, 80- IV, 126 ) The Kaons, the Thesprotians of Chamerie, the Arintans and the Parauets constitute the backbone of what was called Epirus. Among them appear of course the Molossians where are the roots of the family of the mother of Alexander the Great! And Thucydides is not the only source which defines the Epirotes like non-Greeks. There are many others! According to the encyclopedia Basic Antiquity, composed of 86 volumes... Pauly Wissowa the real "Encyclopedia Alterumswissenschaft" says that the Epirotes are of Illyrian origin 🇦🇱 and have strong ties to the population of southern Italy! Whether or not the Epirotes are Illyrians is a discussion that, from an archaeological point of view, is resolved. The Epirotes and the Illyrians have the same culture, if we consider the Iron Age, the use of tombs, the fortifications with several rows of walls, their material culture, the shape of the pots or the ornaments which are identical to those of Korça (present Albania) and the religion. Not only ancient authors such as Thucydides, Strabo and others have called the Epirotic tribes barbarians (non-Greek), but later serious publications based on documents and archaeological findings point in the same direction. The Molosses were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from which came the mother of Alexander the Great, Olympias, daughter of the king and sister of Alexander the Great. The Molosses were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great, Olympias, daughter of the king, and the sister of another well known Illyrian prince, Alexander the Molossus. Moreover the Greek armed forces committed an atrocious genocide on the Albanian civil population of Epirus (Çameria)!
Gjergj Kastriot Scanderbeg ( 31, October, 1460 ) : Moreover, you scorn our people, claiming the Albanians 🇦🇱 as nothing more than sheep, and according to your customs think of us with only insults. It would seem you know nothing of the origins of our race. Our elders were the Epirotes from whence Pyrrhus himself came forth, the might of whom the Romans could barely withstand. Those very Epirotes whom with their weapons set forth and conquered Taranto and much of Italy. There exists no challenge to their might from the likes of the Tarentines, a species of wet men born only to catch fish. And since you proclaim Albania 🇦🇱 a part of Macedonia, you grant also then, our elders as nobles who went as far as India under Alexander the Great, defeating all the peoples that came before them with great ease. From those men descend these who you call sheep. But the nature of things is not changed. Why do your men run away in the faces of sheep?" Source : Book VI or Pope Pius the II's Comentaries.
When it comes to military history, I always admired the underdog commander like Belisarius (lack of support from Justinian somewhat), Stephen the Great (against Matthias Corvinus and the Ottomans) and now I have another legendary commander to admire, Skanderbeg.
@Steven Choza I heard Justinian was worried his throne would be overthrown and move to Belisarius, so he gave Belisarius lack of support, however cant affording it whatsoever
@Euron Buci Belisarius not Albanian but Armenian, and Illyrians not Albanians, but a different people. But also by then Illyrians were completely Roman and Latin speakers. Don't you know that? However Belisarius Armenian.
The Albanian prince that got kidnapped by the strongest empire of the time, became a hero to all western civilization, not only an Albanian hero!!! LAVDI MBRETIT!!! 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱
Thank you for this video. I have visited British museum and there is no mention of Illyrians or Illyria or any of the legendary wars of Skanderbeg. Why is the world so wrong and always tries to work against countries such as Albania? We have never invaded anyone, we have only protected ourselves. History cannot be deleted, we are the sons of the Eagle and Skanderbeg.
Skanderbeg is so underrated one of the most underrated general of all time he deserves a movie to be made for him. Even Mehmed the 2nd the ottoman sultan at the time when Skanderbeg died he said "Europe lost it's shield" and said that "i dont think another man like him will walk again on this earth"
Skanderbeg has been an inspiration through all my life! I learned from his story that when you use you all your mind, your heart and your body all to fight for a just cause, no matter the odds you will make win. Long life to the Albanian Nation - may all the Albanians be reminded where they come from and show the values of justice, strength and honor that their hero embodied!
Gjergj Kastrioti (skenderbeu) was a great warrior and motivator for the Albanian people. And as an Albanian I thank you for your video about it. I hope some director like Oliver Stone or Ridley Scott can make a film about the history of Skënderbeu because it would be a great story to tell.
@Marijan Nikolic bro before u talk learn and read the part of albanian where skanderbeg ruled have to much christians I am a northern christian the history it’s 100% true but after his death most of albanians like 60% turn to islam to not pay tax and not give the children to ottomans
@𐔟𐔓𐔍𐔠𐔇𐔙𐔛𐔀𐔐 you should know that Srblji are Thracian-Ilirian tribes SRBLI= Trbli Srblian= Tribalian (in Greek, they can't say Srbli!) Vojislava Srbljanka - Tribalda. Jon Muzaka said in his memoirs that Skenderbeg was of Serbian nature. He can be your hero but don't lie about his origin. Half of "albanians" are of serbian origins but because of Turkish and Shqip pressure they were albanized. Arbanasi are from Arban inverted from Serbian word RABNO - Raban- Rabanasi! Latins and Greeks always invert serbian words because they can't pronounce it. So Rabanasi were Serbs in today's South montenegro (Malisori), in Kosovo and Metohija, north Albania (Dukađini, Keljmendi-Klimenti, Kastrati just lik Kastriot Kastratović, Kastriotić means the defenders of bordering castrums= castels, Beriša- Beliša their ancestry is from Mrnjavčević family, also some still have Serbian surnames - Veseli, Bogdani, Vojvoda, Vukoja... and many other tribes). Shqips came to Serbian kingdom from Caucasus with Georgios Maniakes in 1042/3. They are not autochthonous. Look at Loristan tradition and you will see where shqips are from.
@𐔟𐔓𐔍𐔠𐔇𐔙𐔛𐔀𐔐 Skenderbeg was a SERB! His name was Đurađ Branilović Kastriotić (kastriot means the defender of Castrum= utvrđenje- castle, it was a kind of title in Serbian kingdom). His father was Jovan, grandfather Pavle, great grandfather BRANILO! Branilo was Kefalia in Serbian kingdom, he got from Serbian king few districts to manage and to protect southern Serbian borders. Đurađ's uncle was Kostadin, his brothers Repoš and Staniša, sisters Vlajka, Mamica, Jelena, Mara, Angelina (they all had Serbian names). His mother was Vojislava (Mladenović) Branković also named Srbljanka (Tribalda) Srbli=Trbli Srblian = Tribalian (in Greek). Đurađ's father and brother are buried in Srebian monastery Hilandar. They were all speaking Serbian, their letters are signed in Serbian language and script. Jovan Mološanin (albanized - Jon Muzaka), said in his memoirs that Skenderbeg "is of Serbian nature".
Scanderbeg is underrated. If the Albanian resistance hadn't occurred, propably Italy and the Western Europe would be in Ottoman hands. A protector of Christianity and European culture. Give this man a Hollywood movie worth milions. Would be a box office succes ✌️
@innosanto they was stopped in Vienna which is Central Europe not in Balkans lol they continued to rule Balkans until 19th century and until the first Balkan war in 1912 -1913 get your facts right
@innosanto but maybe phisicaly Colin was better, acording to pictures of Alexander, heigh and face shape, and melancholic looking, that is more Colin than Leo
@ylber Maxhuni Colin played some scenes very good but other not so good, was unequal between scenes. Still much better to have di caprio play Alex I think.
Thank you for this video. A great figure in Europes history but not very well known apart from Albanians and scholars. The fact that armwrestling in Hungary and Romania literally is his name shows a lot. When the Pope declared his crusade chose Scanderbeg as the Commander of the Holy Army of Christ, forged his helmet in Milan with the inscription INPERATORE, ultimate commander', and the initials refering to * IN * PE * RA * TO * RE * BT *: Jhezus Nazarenus * Principi Emathie * Regi Albaniae * Terrori Osmanorum * Regi Epirotarum * Benedictat Te ( Jezus of Nazareth blesses the Prince of Emathie, King of Albanians, Terror of the Ottomans, King of Epirus ). If he was from a larger country, his figure would be glorified so much more.
Principe Emathie you know based on Albanian legends carried on for Generations Alexander the great was in fact born on Emathie city modern Mati region ...
Straight from here I checked out Langfocus' video on Albanian. That is one really complicated language possibly a descendant ancient Illyrian. I am glad it still exists and we have Skanderbeg to thank for it.
@Vangelis Skia So you ask, why do most Greeks look Asian? Is it because they came from Asia? The answer: Greece and Turkey for the misery of the pollitic and wars result made an exchange of population based on religion not on race, the result were the greeks muslims moved to turkey and the orthodox turks of pontiac hellenic andatolian and real turcs moved to Greece!
@Smesni klipovi Dobrica Ćosić ( former president of the Serbian state, "father of the Serbian nation" ) wrote the following: - "We lie to deceive ourselves, to exert another; We lie from compassion, lie in shame, to encourage ourselves, to hide our misery, lie about honesty. We lie for freedom. Lie is a form of Serbian patriotism and confirmation of our innate intelligence. We lie creatively, imaginatively, inventively. " - "Lie is a Serbian state interest." - "The lie is in the very essence of the Serbs". - "In this country every lie in the end becomes true." - "The Serbs have rescued themselves in history so many times with lies ...".
@Smesni klipovi What the Serbs don't understand is that in addition to being Muslims, the Albanians came from Latin/Catholic or Byzantine/Orthodox countries, the dominant culture in Orthodoxy is Greek and Slavic (as Turkish Arabic is for Islam). No wonder ...
@Smesni klipovi Gjergj = Albanian Gjon = Albanian Pal = Albanian Etc... Vaissa ( in Albanian ) = girl ... (What is by adding the suffix -va, becomes vaissa-va, -Vojsava) And why some of the brothers and sisters of Skanderbeg have Slavic and Greek names ? = What is the cultural name of the culture that dominates in Orthodoxy ? The Slavic and the Greek, and you know it, so stop pretending to be ignorant ... Example : Vlad III Basarab, nicknamed "the Impaler" who has a Slavic first name, but they are not Slavic he is Romanian / Wallach ... He has a Slavic name because the dominant culture in Orthodoxy is Slavic and Greek ... (that's why we have found some Slavic or Greek first names ... think a little. ) As in Islam that it is the culture which dominates for the First Names (Arabic and Turkish ), it is simple ...
The House of Kastrioti (Albanian: Dera e Kastriotëve) was an Albanian noble family, active in the 14th and 15th centuries as the rulers of the Principality of Kastrioti. At the beginning of the 15th century, the family controlled a territory in the Mat and Dibra regions. Exemple : Great grandfather = Kostandin Kastrioti Mazreku (died ca. 1390) was an Albanian 🇦🇱 regional ruler in parts of the wider Mat and Dibër areas. Grandfather = Pal Kastrioti was an Albanian 🇦🇱 medieval ruler in the latter part of the 14th century in northern Albania. Source : Genealogy of the Kastrioti family, Du Cange (1680), Historia Byzantina duplici commentario
Most are drawn away by Vlads love for Pointy Sticks While Other great Balkan Resistance Fighters like Skanderbeg & Michael the Brave are overlooked, Despite Skanderbeg being the most successful
It would not be good because these movies that create ethnic and nationalist pride (whether for or against Turks, Albanians , Balkan Slavs) do not do well. They always appear like juvenile propaganda.
@Gabriel V Skenderbeg was a SERB! His name was Đurađ Branilović Kastriotić (kastriot means the defender of Castrum= utvrđenje- castle, it was a kind of title in Serbian kingdom). His father was Jovan, grandfather Pavle, great grandfather BRANILO! Branilo was Kefalia in Serbian kingdom, he got from Serbian king few districts to manage and to protect southern Serbian borders. Đurađ's uncle was Kostadin, his brothers Repoš and Staniša, sisters Vlajka, Mamica, Jelena, Mara, Angelina (they all had Serbian names). His mother was Vojislava (Mladenović) Branković also named Srbljanka (Tribalda) Srbli=Trbli Srblian = Tribalian (in Greek). Đurađ's father and brother are buried in Srebian monastery Hilandar. They were all speaking Serbian, their letters are signed in Serbian language and script. Jovan Mološanin (albanized - Jon Muzaka), said in his memoirs that Skenderbeg "is of Serbian nature".
@𐔟𐔓𐔍𐔠𐔇𐔙𐔛𐔀𐔐 Skenderbeg was a SERB! His name was Đurađ Branilović Kastriotić (kastriot means the defender of Castrum= utvrđenje- castle, it was a kind of title in Serbian kingdom). His father was Jovan, grandfather Pavle, great grandfather BRANILO! Branilo was Kefalia in Serbian kingdom, he got from Serbian king few districts to manage and to protect southern Serbian borders. Đurađ's uncle was Kostadin, his brothers Repoš and Staniša, sisters Vlajka, Mamica, Jelena, Mara, Angelina (they all had Serbian names). His mother was Vojislava (Mladenović) Branković also named Srbljanka (Tribalda) Srbli=Trbli Srblian = Tribalian (in Greek). Đurađ's father and brother are buried in Srebian monastery Hilandar. They were all speaking Serbian, their letters are signed in Serbian language and script. Jovan Mološanin (albanized - Jon Muzaka), said in his memoirs that Skenderbeg "is of Serbian nature".
The Second Battle of Kosovo (October 17-October 20, 1448) pitted a coalition of the Kingdom of Hungary and Wallachia led by John Hunyadi, against an Ottoman-led coalition under Sultan Murad II at Kosovo Polje. The Albanian troops under Skanderbeg (🇦🇱 Albanian 🦅), wanted to help the Hungarians, but Đurađ Branković (Serbian 🇷🇸), then ALLIED to Sultan Murad II (Ottoman), prevented the Albanian troops under Skanderbeg from helping the Hungarians... Source: Sedlar, Jean W. (1994). University of Washington Press. p. 393 As a result, Skanderbeg (🇦🇱) ravaged the estates of Branković (🇷🇸) as punishment for desertion of the Christian cause. Consequence = defeat of the Hungarians ... Source: Kenneth, Setton (1997) [1978] Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. p. 100.
The original name of the family of Kastrioti (Castriota) was Merzeku. Kastriot, Kastrat in Has (🇦🇱), Kastrat in Dibra (🇦🇱) or the microtoponym "Kostur" near the village of Mazrek in the Has region. Source :Bela 2019, p. 229. In connection to the Kastrioti family name, it is very likely that the name of one the different Kastriot or Kastrat which were fortified settlements as their etymology shows (castrum = Latin) was as their family name. The Kastrioti may have originated from this village (🇦🇱) or probably had acquired it as pronoia. Source : Omari 2014, p. 44 Angelo used the cognomen Meserechus in reference to Skanderbeg and this link to the same name is produced in other sources and reproduced in later ones like Du Cange's Historia Byzantina (1680). Source : Malaj 2013, p. 43 These links highlight that the Kastrioti used Mazreku as a name that highlighted their tribal affiliation (farefisni). Source : Malaj 2013, p. 44 The name Mazrek(u), which means horse breeder in Albanian, is found throughout ALL Albanian regions 🇦🇱. Source : Malaj 2013, p. 45. The Kastrioti themselves where organised in a tribal structure and formed a fis or clan/tribe. Source : Gall, Timothy L.; Hobby, Janeen (2009). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life: Europe. p. 27.
The father of the Serbian nation Dobrica Cosic considers the ability to lie and lying to be the highest moral virtue of the Serbian people and the foundation of foundation of Serbian pride. Here is a direct quote from Dobrica Cosic: "Lying is the greatest virtue of the Serbian people". Dobrica Cosic continues and says: "We lie to deceive ourselves... To console others, we lie to fight fear, to encourage ourselves, to hide our misery... Lying is a trait of our patriotism and the proof of our innate intelligence. We lie in a creative, imaginative and inventive way". Source : Deobe
@babis papoulidis Skenderbeg was a SERB! His name was Đurađ Branilović Kastriotić (kastriot means the defender of Castrum= utvrđenje- castle, it was a kind of title in Serbian kingdom). His father was Jovan, grandfather Pavle, great grandfather BRANILO! Branilo was Kefalia in Serbian kingdom, he got from Serbian king few districts to manage and to protect southern Serbian borders. Đurađ's uncle was Kostadin, his brothers Repoš and Staniša, sisters Vlajka, Mamica, Jelena, Mara, Angelina (they all had Serbian names). His mother was Vojislava (Mladenović) Branković also named Srbljanka (Tribalda) Srbli=Trbli Srblian = Tribalian (in Greek). Đurađ's father and brother are buried in Srebian monastery Hilandar. They were all speaking Serbian, their letters are signed in Serbian language and script. Jovan Mološanin (albanized - Jon Muzaka), said in his memoirs that Skenderbeg "is of Serbian nature".
@Kosova is Albania wSkenderbeg was a SERB! His name was Đurađ Branilović Kastriotić (kastriot means the defender of Castrum= utvrđenje- castle, it was a kind of title in Serbian kingdom). His father was Jovan, grandfather Pavle, great grandfather BRANILO! Branilo was Kefalia in Serbian kingdom, he got from Serbian king few districts to manage and to protect southern Serbian borders. Đurađ's uncle was Kostadin, his brothers Repoš and Staniša, sisters Vlajka, Mamica, Jelena, Mara, Angelina (they all had Serbian names). His mother was Vojislava (Mladenović) Branković also named Srbljanka (Tribalda) Srbli=Trbli Srblian = Tribalian (in Greek). Đurađ's father and brother are buried in Srebian monastery Hilandar. They were all speaking Serbian, their letters are signed in Serbian language and script. Jovan Mološanin (albanized - Jon Muzaka), said in his memoirs that Skenderbeg "is of Serbian nature".
Mehmet the Second (The Conquerer) and Scanderbeg were very good friends during their military training period in Ottoman lands when they were young. They studied together and were given best-classes by the best teachers in Ottoman State. After the time Scanderbeg had changed his side from Ottoman to Albenia, Mehmet the Conquerer said "Next, I would have conquered Rome with Scanderbeg if he hadn't betrayed of us."
How can someone betray you when he was not an ottoman but a hostage that you forced to fight for you. He did not betray any ottoman, he paid back to ottomans what they did to his people and his land. End of story.
The Second Battle of Kosovo (October 17-October 20, 1448) pitted a coalition of the Kingdom of Hungary and Wallachia led by John Hunyadi, against an Ottoman-led coalition under Sultan Murad II at Kosovo Polje. The Albanian troops under Skanderbeg (🇦🇱 Albanian 🦅), wanted to help the Hungarians, but Đurađ Branković (Serbian 🇷🇸), then ALLIED to Sultan Murad II (Ottoman), prevented the Albanian troops under Skanderbeg from helping the Hungarians... Source: Sedlar, Jean W. (1994). University of Washington Press. p. 393 As a result, Skanderbeg (🇦🇱) ravaged the estates of Branković (🇷🇸) as punishment for desertion of the Christian cause. Consequence = defeat of the Hungarians ... Source: Kenneth, Setton (1997) [1978] Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. p. 100.
the turks must have lost over 200,000 men to this guy. skanderbeg ROCKS. the sieges of vienna may have been pivotal battles but nothing was more pivotal for the history of western europe than this remarkable man.
@Zeni Nimoni Albania did not prevent us from going to Italy, Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror sent Gedik Ahmed Pasha and heavy armored cavalry to Otranto in a very short time. But just as the Turks were advancing in Italy, Sultan Mehmet died and Gedik Ahmed Pasha was recalled to Turkey. The Ottomans were an unstoppable force in the 15th and 16th centuries, in every way.
@Hussain_abbas I do not understand you. How's that a betrayal when he turned and fought for his own country. You understand that he was taken hostage by the ottomans?Thus,there was a risk of mutiny.
@Tolga İnan "We didnt do terrible things to Balkans as much as Europians but you love Europians." Nothing against the modern Turkey and your nation, but the above quote is false.
@eg🏳️🌈⃠ Origin of the name "Shqiptar" and Epirus = More concise on the issue, the only Nobel Prize in history 🎓 is none other than Theodor Mommsen 🥇 author of the cycle "Corpus of the inscriptions of antiquity" who says that: - "the brave Epirotes, the Albanians 🇦🇱 of antiquity supported with traditional loyalty the young and brave Pyrrhus or "the Eagle" as they called him" . Let us point out in this regard that the Albanians call themselves "Shqiptar", i.e. "sons or children of the Eagle". The soldiers of Pyrrhus (3rd century BC / Epirote King), called their King "the Eagle" and that the latter gave them back one day that they were his "children", so the Albanians are the children of the Eagle... "Shqiptar = child of the Eagle .... " . (Pyrrhus was the cousin of Alexander the Great, of the Molossian tribe and himself an ambitious conqueror, Pyrrhus is one of the most formidable opponents of the early days of ancient Rome). Let's not forget that nes Epirotes were an Illyrian tribe (🇦🇱) and not Greeks! There is also another interpretation of this ethnonym: the Eagle was one of the symbols of Zeus, Pelasgian god (🇦🇱) by excellence (source: cf Homer Iliad XVI,234). The Albanians would thus be the "sons of Zeus" thus "sons of the Eagle". Besides, these last ones (Albanians), whatever their religion, still call their God Zot (Zeus = Zojz = Zot), thus recalling the divine name of Zeus. On the other hand the word Shqip, before becoming an etnhonym (Shqiptar), has always designated the "Albanian language" (language shqip = clear language). Precision: Zeus was not a Greek god! (propaganda which it is spread)... Zeus was a Pelasgian god (🇦🇱) Example : Achilles : " Zeus, sovereign lord, O prince of Dodona, O you Pelasgic Zeus (🇦🇱), distant god who rules over Dodona, in this rough country of Selles... " Source: Homer, Iliad, XVI,233/234. Achilles did not say: Zeus the Greek, Zeus the Hellene or Zeus the Mycenaean... Then why in the school books, one qualifies Zeus of Greek? (just with this quotation, one realizes that modern historiography is not honest) Karl O.Müller: The more intelligence will enter the history of Greece, the more attention will be paid to the Pelasgic element sacrificed until now. Source : (Prolegomena-1825) Epirus = Historically, tribes like the Molossians or others that made up Epirus like the Kaons, Thesprotians, Paraue, Antintans and others, are historically linked to the Illyrian (🇦🇱) culture or part of it. As Thucydides tells us about the events of the Peloponnesian War, which involved both actually Illyrians and Illyria itself, these tribes were commonly considered barbarian (non-Greek) tribes. Thucydides: - "Among the barbarians there were about 1,000 Kaons who ruled without a king. In addition to the Kaons, the Thesprotians also participated and were also governed without a king. There were also the MOLOSSIANS, the Atintants and the Paraues. Source : ( HISTORY OF THE WAR OF THE PELOPONNESE ) All these tribes, mentioned by the historian of Athenian origin Thucydides for their participation in the famous war of Peloponnese in the 5th century BC, are considered as barbarians, thus not Greek! Source : ( Thucydides II, 80- IV, 126 ) The Kaons, the Thesprotians of Chamerie, the Arintans and the Parauets constitute the backbone of what was called Epirus. Among them appear of course the Molossians where are the roots of the family of the mother of Alexander the Great! And Thucydides is not the only source which defines the Epirotes like non-Greeks. There are many others! According to the encyclopedia Basic Antiquity, composed of 86 volumes... Pauly Wissowa the real "Encyclopedia Alterumswissenschaft" says that the Epirotes are of Illyrian origin 🇦🇱 and have strong ties to the population of southern Italy! Whether or not the Epirotes are Illyrians is a discussion that, from an archaeological point of view, is resolved. The Epirotes and the Illyrians have the same culture, if we consider the Iron Age, the use of tombs, the fortifications with several rows of walls, their material culture, the shape of the pots or the ornaments which are identical to those of Korça (present Albania) and the religion. Not only ancient authors such as Thucydides, Strabo and others have called the Epirotic tribes barbarians (non-Greek), but later serious publications based on documents and archaeological findings point in the same direction. The Molosses were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from which came the mother of Alexander the Great, Olympias, daughter of the king and sister of Alexander the Great. The Molosses were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great, Olympias, daughter of the king, and the sister of another well known Illyrian prince, Alexander the Molossus. Moreover the Greek armed forces committed an atrocious genocide on the Albanian civil population of Epirus (Çameria)!
@eg🏳️🌈⃠ Gjergj Kastriot Scanderbeg ( 31, October, 1460 ) : Moreover, you scorn our people, claiming the Albanians 🇦🇱 as nothing more than sheep, and according to your customs think of us with only insults. It would seem you know nothing of the origins of our race. Our elders were the Epirotes from whence Pyrrhus himself came forth, the might of whom the Romans could barely withstand. Those very Epirotes whom with their weapons set forth and conquered Taranto and much of Italy. There exists no challenge to their might from the likes of the Tarentines, a species of wet men born only to catch fish. And since you proclaim Albania 🇦🇱 a part of Macedonia, you grant also then, our elders as nobles who went as far as India under Alexander the Great, defeating all the peoples that came before them with great ease. From those men descend these who you call sheep. But the nature of things is not changed. Why do your men run away in the faces of sheep?" Source : Book VI or Pope Pius the II's Comentaries.
As a Turk myself 🇹🇷 i do respect what he achieved not all Turks wants to admit it i know that amk so i’ll just say it for them. Skanderbeg Gjergj Kastrioti was a great warrior 👍🏻
@𐔟𐔓𐔍𐔠𐔇𐔙𐔛𐔀𐔐 Skenderbeg was a SERB! His name was Đurađ Branilović Kastriotić (kastriot means the defender of Castrum= utvrđenje- castle, it was a kind of title in Serbian kingdom). His father was Jovan, grandfather Pavle, great grandfather BRANILO! Branilo was Kefalia in Serbian kingdom, he got from Serbian king few districts to manage and to protect southern Serbian borders. Đurađ's uncle was Kostadin, his brothers Repoš and Staniša, sisters Vlajka, Mamica, Jelena, Mara, Angelina (they all had Serbian names). His mother was Vojislava (Mladenović) Branković also named Srbljanka (Tribalda) Srbli=Trbli Srblian = Tribalian (in Greek). Đurađ's father and brother are buried in Srebian monastery Hilandar. They were all speaking Serbian, their letters are signed in Serbian language and script. Jovan Mološanin (albanized - Jon Muzaka), said in his memoirs that Skenderbeg "is of Serbian nature".
Skenderbeg was a SERB! His name was Đurađ Branilović Kastriotić (kastriot means the defender of Castrum= utvrđenje- castle, it was a kind of title in Serbian kingdom). His father was Jovan, grandfather Pavle, great grandfather BRANILO! Branilo was Kefalia in Serbian kingdom, he got from Serbian king few districts to manage and to protect southern Serbian borders. Đurađ's uncle was Kostadin, his brothers Repoš and Staniša, sisters Vlajka, Mamica, Jelena, Mara, Angelina (they all had Serbian names). His mother was Vojislava (Mladenović) Branković also named Srbljanka (Tribalda) Srbli=Trbli Srblian = Tribalian (in Greek). Đurađ's father and brother are buried in Srebian monastery Hilandar. They were all speaking Serbian, their letters are signed in Serbian language and script. Jovan Mološanin (albanized - Jon Muzaka), said in his memoirs that Skenderbeg "is of Serbian nature".
He was, I'm slav macedonian and admire this man!... we balkanites should stop fighting each other and live as brothers for once, seriously I think we are somewhat connected, our cultures are so similar
"Dua vetem bashkim dhe unitetin e races shhqipetare perparimin e saj intelektual dhe ekonomik me qellim qe te behemi mjaft te fort per te kundershtuar ate qe synon te na perpije ne" - Ismail Qemali 1844-1919
AABM cfar shikove e kuptove nga ky dokumentar?? qe ne te dobtit pra ne qe i rezistum 30 vjet perandoris me te fuqishme te kohes paskemi pas nevoj per ndihmen e vellezerve te tu, turqit, se ndryshe ne do na hanin fqinjet,,,,,nuk kam fjal per ju otomanet shqiptar,,,, i respektoj turqit se jan per tu respektu,,,per historin e tyre e jo per tonen qe na sollen vetem shkatrrime e probleme,,, qellimi final i fundit i turqis ishte dalja ne durres ne detin adriatik dhe beri cmos per kte plan nga nji an kurdiste marreveshje duke dhen toka shqiptare sikur ti kishte te vetat e duke perdor haxhi qamila dhe toptana nipt e te cileve jeni ju neootomanet e tanishem,,, hap syt dhe horizontin djal ,,, nuk jam aspak turkofob, dhe dua te kemi marredhenie te mira me turqin se kemi nevoj,, po jo te deformojm historin, te huajt jan njelloj po nuk je i zoti te shpija jote, kte te gjith shqiptart duhet ta fiksojn ne mendje,,,
Skenderbeg was a SERB! His name was Đurađ Branilović Kastriotić (kastriot means the defender of Castrum= utvrđenje- castle, it was a kind of title in Serbian kingdom). His father was Jovan, grandfather Pavle, great grandfather BRANILO! Branilo was Kefalia in Serbian kingdom, he got from Serbian king few districts to manage and to protect southern Serbian borders. Đurađ's uncle was Kostadin, his brothers Repoš and Staniša, sisters Vlajka, Mamica, Jelena, Mara, Angelina (they all had Serbian names). His mother was Vojislava (Mladenović) Branković also named Srbljanka (Tribalda) Srbli=Trbli Srblian = Tribalian (in Greek). Đurađ's father and brother are buried in Srebian monastery Hilandar. They were all speaking Serbian, their letters are signed in Serbian language and script. Jovan Mološanin (albanized - Jon Muzaka), said in his memoirs that Skenderbeg "is of Serbian nature".
@꧁ Райан Milliyetçi ꧂ im telling you there isn't such thing as a "caucasian albanian" serbs came from there and carpates mountains even Homerus a Greek writer mentioned illyrians and a Egyptian writer which i don't remember his name talked about serbians that came in balkans in 7th century and that they were named "serbois" they came from caucasian and carpate mountains
@꧁ Райан Milliyetçi ꧂ There was also a state named iberia in the the caucasus but it doesn't mean spaniards and portugals are from caucasus as well, anyone who has just a bit knowledge knows that caucasus people and modern albanians and iberians have absolute no relations with them, Albanian's dna shows that they are proto-native people in the balkans and are culturally and in language term related to the illyrians, greeks and albanians are mostly related when it comes to DNA and it explains enough as are neighbors for millenniums. The first term "albanoi" was mentioned in 150 AD in today's albania as being a majority tribe making up most of today's albania and most historians undoubtedly theorize that these people have descanted into modern albanians, you coming up with the caucasus conclusion just shows your immaturity and lack of knowledge regarding this topic no wonder though since it's coming from a russian who yesterday probably just realized the location of "albania"
For those who wonder about the badass Goat Helmet that Skenderbeg wore.. It was a tribute to Alexander the Great and Pirro of Epirus, who also wore similar pagan symbolism, wich stems from the goat god Pan.
Skanderbeg was quite a brilliant commander if he managed to successfully hold out as long as he did. Good on him. And good job to whoever made this video possible.
Could you imagine what a man like Skanderbeg could have done with Venitian and Neapolitan support? Imagine if he had 50,000 troops and financial backing, he could have brought the Ottomans to their knees and halted their European expansion for half a century.
Skanderbeg avoided open battles. He was limited to defending the Albanian highlands. It would be impossible for him to make it through Thrace, let alone Istanbul and Anatolia.
Skenderbeg with that support could have probably reached the walls of Constantinople easily thus changing the entire Balkan history and Balkan as we know it today.
BIG RESPECT FOR YOU. YOU REALIZED THIS AMAZING VIDEO... Skanderbag was a pure warrior and a PATRIOT. with his small number of warriors he did the best of the best.
Skenderbeg was a SERB! His name was Đurađ Branilović Kastriotić (kastriot means the defender of Castrum= utvrđenje- castle, it was a kind of title in Serbian kingdom). His father was Jovan, grandfather Pavle, great grandfather BRANILO! Branilo was Kefalia in Serbian kingdom, he got from Serbian king few districts to manage and to protect southern Serbian borders. Đurađ's uncle was Kostadin, his brothers Repoš and Staniša, sisters Vlajka, Mamica, Jelena, Mara, Angelina (they all had Serbian names). His mother was Vojislava (Mladenović) Branković also named Srbljanka (Tribalda) Srbli=Trbli Srblian = Tribalian (in Greek). Đurađ's father and brother are buried in Srebian monastery Hilandar. They were all speaking Serbian, their letters are signed in Serbian language and script. Jovan Mološanin (albanized - Jon Muzaka), said in his memoirs that Skenderbeg "is of Serbian nature".
25 years undefeated with 10,000 men army against a 10 times larger army of Ottoman is just mind blowing and the fact that he was not conquering but he was defending his land makes his story different and makes him the greatest general that ever lived
My grandfather told me some stories they used to tell in the village: the horse knew him so well that when skanderbeg died the horse died a few days too because he didn't have his master and when he dies the turks feared him so much that the Albanians just needed to put a look alike skanderbeg in a horse and they didn't have the courage to atk because they know they will fail but when they heard that skanderbeg is dead they atk and got the Albanians.
Mos Lexo mashtrim sllav , Leka madh ishte Matjan , pra Emathia pra Maria e madhja ndaj Zogu ja vendosi monedhes Lek , mendohet ose nga Mati ose Petrella (Pella) , edhe Gj.Kastrioti Nga Kruje Mat , pjesa sot rrafshnalta perendimore ka qene kenete (prandaj kishte malarje) pra eshte pak e quditshme por shqitari ka aftesi ushtarake , por Europa e braktisi
What a badass! Brilliant commander. I visited Tirana and I love his statue in Skanderbeg Square--it's so cool. I really enjoyed Tirana and the Albanian people. They were very friendly and appreciative of visitors. I highly recommend a visit. I will be back one day! Beautiful women too ;)
The original name of the family of Kastrioti (Castriota) was Merzeku. Kastriot, Kastrat in Has (🇦🇱), Kastrat in Dibra (🇦🇱) or the microtoponym "Kostur" near the village of Mazrek in the Has region. Source :Bela 2019, p. 229. In connection to the Kastrioti family name, it is very likely that the name of one the different Kastriot or Kastrat which were fortified settlements as their etymology shows (castrum = Latin) was as their family name. The Kastrioti may have originated from this village (🇦🇱) or probably had acquired it as pronoia. Source : Omari 2014, p. 44 Angelo used the cognomen Meserechus in reference to Skanderbeg and this link to the same name is produced in other sources and reproduced in later ones like Du Cange's Historia Byzantina (1680). Source : Malaj 2013, p. 43 These links highlight that the Kastrioti used Mazreku as a name that highlighted their tribal affiliation (farefisni). Source : Malaj 2013, p. 44 The name Mazrek(u), which means horse breeder in Albanian, is found throughout ALL Albanian regions 🇦🇱. Source : Malaj 2013, p. 45. The Kastrioti themselves where organised in a tribal structure and formed a fis or clan/tribe. Source : Gall, Timothy L.; Hobby, Janeen (2009). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life: Europe. p. 27. Gjergj Kastriot Scanderbeg ( 31, October, 1460 ) : Moreover, you scorn our people, claiming the Albanians 🇦🇱 as nothing more than sheep, and according to your customs think of us with only insults. It would seem you know nothing of the origins of our race. Our elders were the Epirotes from whence Pyrrhus himself came forth, the might of whom the Romans could barely withstand. Those very Epirotes whom with their weapons set forth and conquered Taranto and much of Italy. There exists no challenge to their might from the likes of the Tarentines, a species of wet men born only to catch fish. And since you proclaim Albania 🇦🇱 a part of Macedonia, you grant also then, our elders as nobles who went as far as India under Alexander the Great, defeating all the peoples that came before them with great ease. From those men descend these who you call sheep. But the nature of things is not changed. Why do your men run away in the faces of sheep?" Source : Book VI or Pope Pius the II's Comentaries. Origin of the name "Shqiptar" and Epirus = More concise on the issue, the only Nobel Prize in history 🎓 is none other than Theodor Mommsen 🥇 author of the cycle "Corpus of the inscriptions of antiquity" who says that: - "the brave Epirotes, the Albanians 🇦🇱 of antiquity supported with traditional loyalty the young and brave Pyrrhus or "the Eagle" as they called him" . Let us point out in this regard that the Albanians call themselves "Shqiptar", i.e. "sons or children of the Eagle". The soldiers of Pyrrhus (3rd century BC / Epirote King), called their King "the Eagle" and that the latter gave them back one day that they were his "children", so the Albanians are the children of the Eagle... "Shqiptar = child of the Eagle .... " . (Pyrrhus was the cousin of Alexander the Great, of the Molossian tribe and himself an ambitious conqueror, Pyrrhus is one of the most formidable opponents of the early days of ancient Rome). Let's not forget that nes Epirotes were an Illyrian tribe (🇦🇱) and not Greeks! There is also another interpretation of this ethnonym: the Eagle was one of the symbols of Zeus, Pelasgian god (🇦🇱) by excellence (source: cf Homer Iliad XVI,234). The Albanians would thus be the "sons of Zeus" thus "sons of the Eagle". Besides, these last ones (Albanians), whatever their religion, still call their God Zot (Zeus = Zojz = Zot), thus recalling the divine name of Zeus. On the other hand the word Shqip, before becoming an etnhonym (Shqiptar), has always designated the "Albanian language" (language shqip = clear language). Precision: Zeus was not a Greek god! (propaganda which it is spread)... Zeus was a Pelasgian god (🇦🇱) Example : Achilles : " Zeus, sovereign lord, O prince of Dodona, O you Pelasgic Zeus (🇦🇱), distant god who rules over Dodona, in this rough country of Selles... " Source: Homer, Iliad, XVI,233/234. Achilles did not say: Zeus the Greek, Zeus the Hellene or Zeus the Mycenaean... Then why in the school books, one qualifies Zeus of Greek? (just with this quotation, one realizes that modern historiography is not honest) Karl O.Müller: The more intelligence will enter the history of Greece, the more attention will be paid to the Pelasgic element sacrificed until now. Source : (Prolegomena-1825) Epirus = Historically, tribes like the Molossians or others that made up Epirus like the Kaons, Thesprotians, Paraue, Antintans and others, are historically linked to the Illyrian (🇦🇱) culture or part of it. As Thucydides tells us about the events of the Peloponnesian War, which involved both actually Illyrians and Illyria itself, these tribes were commonly considered barbarian (non-Greek) tribes. Thucydides: - "Among the barbarians there were about 1,000 Kaons who ruled without a king. In addition to the Kaons, the Thesprotians also participated and were also governed without a king. There were also the MOLOSSIANS, the Atintants and the Paraues. Source : ( HISTORY OF THE WAR OF THE PELOPONNESE ) All these tribes, mentioned by the historian of Athenian origin Thucydides for their participation in the famous war of Peloponnese in the 5th century BC, are considered as barbarians, thus not Greek! Source : ( Thucydides II, 80- IV, 126 ) The Kaons, the Thesprotians of Chamerie, the Arintans and the Parauets constitute the backbone of what was called Epirus. Among them appear of course the Molossians where are the roots of the family of the mother of Alexander the Great! And Thucydides is not the only source which defines the Epirotes like non-Greeks. There are many others! According to the encyclopedia Basic Antiquity, composed of 86 volumes... Pauly Wissowa the real "Encyclopedia Alterumswissenschaft" says that the Epirotes are of Illyrian origin 🇦🇱 and have strong ties to the population of southern Italy! Whether or not the Epirotes are Illyrians is a discussion that, from an archaeological point of view, is resolved. The Epirotes and the Illyrians have the same culture, if we consider the Iron Age, the use of tombs, the fortifications with several rows of walls, their material culture, the shape of the pots or the ornaments which are identical to those of Korça (present Albania) and the religion. Not only ancient authors such as Thucydides, Strabo and others have called the Epirotic tribes barbarians (non-Greek), but later serious publications based on documents and archaeological findings point in the same direction. The Molosses were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from which came the mother of Alexander the Great, Olympias, daughter of the king and sister of Alexander the Great. The Molosses were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great, Olympias, daughter of the king, and the sister of another well known Illyrian prince, Alexander the Molossus. Moreover the Greek armed forces committed an atrocious genocide on the Albanian civil population of Epirus (Çameria)!
Ethnicity = Skanderbeg himself defined himself as Albanian ( Ethnicity ) (handwritten letter). Ex : " Ioannes Antonius princeps Taranti Georgio Albano salutem " = Georgio the Albanian 🇦🇱 salutes the prince Giovanni of Taranto . Source : (Pope Pius II , Commentarii) The same prince Giovanni Antonio described Skanderbeg as "Georgio Albano".. Geography = Skanderbeg always signed himself as "Dominus Albaniae" (Albanian: Zot i Arbërisë, English: Lord of Albania🇦🇱) Source : Frazee, Charles A. (22 June 2006). Catholics and Sultans: The Church and the Ottoman Empire 1453-1923. Cambridge University Press. p. 33. The House of Kastrioti (Albanian: Dera e Kastriotëve) was an Albanian noble family, active in the 14th and 15th centuries as the rulers of the Principality of Kastrioti. At the beginning of the 15th century, the family controlled a territory in the Mat and Dibra regions. Exemple : Great grandfather = Kostandin Kastrioti Mazreku (died ca. 1390) was an Albanian 🇦🇱 regional ruler in parts of the wider Mat and Dibër areas. Grandfather = Pal Kastrioti was an Albanian 🇦🇱 medieval ruler in the latter part of the 14th century in northern Albania. Source : Genealogy of the Kastrioti family, Du Cange (1680), Historia Byzantina duplici commentario Even the Serbs of the time considered Skanderbeg as Albanian, his father (Gjon) was buried in an Orthodox monastery, the Serbs named the tower where he is buried "Albanian tower 🇦🇱"... source : ( Himelstir. p. 45 ) Moreover, even the descendants of Skanderbeg from the Arbëresh community qualify as Albanians 🇦🇱 and not as Serbs ... Example : Shopie Castriota, loris Castriota etc ... Alessandro Cutolo ( Italian historian ) : " Gjon ( father of Skanderbeg ) married Princess Vojsava, the daughter of another excellent Albanian🇦🇱 leader, the Lord of Polog " . Source : in is work "Skanderbeg" , p.20, published in Milan (Italy) in 1940. His mother ( Skanderbeg )came from the Muzaka family (Albanian) and not from the Brankovic family ... Father was Gjon Kastrioti, son of Pal Kastrioti. Mother was Voisava from the Muzaka-Family (as stated in the memoires of Gjon Muzaka written sometime before 1510) Documents from that time only state that she was an albanian. There are no serbian documents that state she was serbian. In his memoires Gjon Muzaka (before 1510) wrote that she is a muzaka. We only have two sources from that era that give us a hint of her origin. One is geographically and the other is ethnically . Geographic source: barleti wrote that it was from polog. Member of a noble house and tribal leader. Why tribal and not Serbian? First of all, the triballi were an ancient Thraco-Illyrian ( Albanian ) tribe. The same name was again used in the Middle Ages / Byzantine era for the inhabitants of the ancient tribal area. All the people who lived in this area were called triballi (Albanians, Bulgarians and Serbs). (And let's not forget that the Tribalians were Slavised for the majority ... But remained Thraco-Illyrian/Albanian in their blood ...) Today, the majority of Albanians in Macedonia live in the Polog region (the eastern part of Macedonia). Exemple : Appianus Alexandrinus (is a Greek historien of the Roman period) who qualified the Triballians of "Illyrian origin". Source : "historia Romana". Stephanus of Byzantium ( Great lexicographer of Constantinople, lived in the 6 th century), was written in the year 528-545, declares that the "Triballians are Illyrian. Source : From Urbibus and Populis. Other authors such as Strabo, Pliny, Ptolemy and Dion Cassius, state that the Triballians are of Thraco-Illyrian origin ( Pelasgians/Albanian ) Ethnical source: Gjon Muzaka wrote in his memoires that she was a muzaka. I think with the latter source we should conclude this whole discussion. As it is a very close source - chronological and physical. The person in this case Gjon Muzaka knew Voisava personally and he fought besides Skanderbeg and skanderbegs son. So he wouldnt dare to write something he would later regret right ? He wrote those memoires sometime before 1510 so basically before the book of barleti was printed.
There's a Skanderbeg street in every town in Albania 🇦🇱 Nënë Tereza, too. 🦇 A contemporary of Vlad Țepeș... ☆ Berat is a beautiful town, in a river valley, with a castle.
@Milan Mišić E-V13 (Haplogroup E) is one of the Haplogroups that were common among Illyrians, yes. SOURCE : ( The genomic history of Southeast Europe ) E-V13 as Haplogroup Y originated from the so-called Neolithic settlers, who entered the Balkans from Anatolia about 8500 years ago. These Neolithic settlers were the founders of the Minoan civilization, the first European civilization in history. They also played a major role in the ethnogenesis of the Mycenaeans, Greeks, Thracians, Dacians and Illyrians that followed. E-V13 is one of the haplogroups that were common among the Illyrians, yes. Thus, although E-V13 is not exclusively "Illyrian" but rather paleobalkanic in general, it was one of the main Illyrian y-DNA haplogroups. In addition to E-V13, the Illyrians probably possessed the haplogroup R1b, originating from the Indo-European which gave them their languages, to the Thracians and Greeks, and J2b, another Mediterranean Neolithic haplogroup common to today's Albanians, Greeks and Italians, among others. It is also worth mentioning that the three haplogroups so typical for today's Albanians have also been found in Neolithic and Bronze Age remains on the eastern coast of the Adriatic (ancient Illyria) ! : E1b1 (Haplogroup E) - R1b - J2b2 . - source : ( The genomic history of Southeast Europe )
@Milan Mišić Most of them (Historians, linguists etc...) say that the Albanians are indeed the descendants of the Illyrians (their language, their culture etc...). Indeed the Albanian language (only language) is classified in the group "Paleo-balkanic (Thraco-Illyrian)". Demonstration of the Albanian / Thraco-Illlyrian language : Illyria (illyr) / I lirë (Free, independent) in Albanian. The Greeks considered the Illyrians as a "Free", "Independent" people ... This name explains the meaning of this ethnonym used by the Greeks. Dardania (Illyrian Tribe) / Dardhë (pear in Albanian) . Since the highest antiquity, this region was known for its orchards where pear trees were very numerous ... This is why it was called "Pear country" ... Dalmates / Delmat ("sheep" in Albanian) . Former region of Illyria, on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. This name derives from the Albanian "delmë, delmat" which means "sheep" in Albanian. Thrace / Trakët, Trashët, I Trashë (Big or corpulent in Albanian). According to Herodotus (V, 3): "the Thracians are, after the Indians, the most numerous people in the world ... " And many more... Many words can be explained thanks to the Albanian language... I will deepen the link between the Illyrians and the Albanians (Language) Exemple : 📜 Illyriens : Zi 🇦🇱 Albanais : Zi 📜 : Maraz 🇦🇱 : Maraz 📜 : Ziapk 🇦🇱 : Zi ape 📜 : Sifai 🇦🇱 : Si faj 📜: Ar 🇦🇱: Ar 📜 : Tafar 🇦🇱 : Taft 📜 : Zith 🇦🇱 : Zi,Th 📜 : Feisva Feis 🇦🇱 : Fiseve a Fis 📜 : Orai 🇦🇱 : O ar ai 📜 : Epiezi 🇦🇱 : Epe e zi 📜 : Aifisi 🇦🇱 : Ai fisi 📜 : Lot 🇦🇱 : Lot 📜 : Tikh 🇦🇱 : Thik 📜 : Eape 🇦🇱 : E ape 📜 : Hoke 🇦🇱 : Hoqe 📜 : As 🇦🇱 : As 📜 : Zerh 🇦🇱 : Zerin 📜 : Bardus 🇦🇱 : Bardhi 📜 : Binda 🇦🇱 : Bind 📜 : Prenta 🇦🇱 : Brenda 📜 : Tremba 🇦🇱 : Tremb , Tremba Etc ... !
@Milan Mišić He knows even less that the world's greatest scientific authorities have pronounced themselves on the autochtonous and Illyrian origin of the Albanians. I would quote among others the : - 🇩🇪 Gottfried Leibniz - 🇸🇪 Johann Thunmann - 🇩🇪 Ritter von Xilander - 🇩🇪 Franz Bopp - 🇩🇪 Jakob Fallmerayer - 🇩🇪 J, von Hahn - 🇩🇪 Paul Kretschner - 🇦🇹 Norbert Jokl - 🇦🇹Maximilian Lambertz - 🇬🇧 William Leak - 🇬🇧 Stewart Mann - 🇬🇧 Dane Holger Pedersen - 🇮🇹 Angelo Masci - 🇦🇹 G. Mayer, H. Olberg - 🇦🇹 R. Solta - 🇨🇵 A. Ducellier - 🇭🇷 Milan Šufflay - 🇭🇷 Radoslav. Katicic Etc ... The Albanian tribal society has preserved the ancient Illyrian social structure based on tribal units. Source : - 1 Michael L. Galaty (2002). "Modeling the Formation and Evolution of an Illyrian Tribal System: Ethnographic and Archaeological Analogs". In William A. Parkinson (ed.). The Archaeology of Tribal Societies . - 2 Villar, Francisco (1996). Los indoeuropeos y los orígenes de Europa There is no evidence of any major migration into Albanian territory since the records of Illyrian occupation . Source : Mallory, J.P.; Adams, D.Q., eds. (1997). Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. Taylor & Francis. pp. 9, 11. Because descent from Illyrians makes "geographical sense" and there is no linguistic or historical evidence proving a replacement, then the burden of proof lies on the side of those who would deny a connection of Albanian with Illyrian Source : Katicic, Radoslav. 1976. The Ancient Languages of the Balkans. Berlin: Mouton. Page 188. The national name Albania is derived from " Albanoi " or " Albani " an Illyrian tribe mentioned by Ptolemy about 150 AD. Source : - 1 Giacalone Ramat, Anna; Ramat, Paolo, eds. (1998). The Indo-European languages. Rootledge. p. 481. - 2 Vasiliev, Alexander A. (1958) [1952]. History of the Byzantine Empire, 324-1453. 2 (2nd ed.). University of Wisconsin Press. p. 613. - 3 Jelavich, Barbara (1983). History of the Balkans: Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Cambridge University Press. p. 25 Etc !
@Milan Mišić Dobrica Ćosić ( former president of the Serbian state, "father of the Serbian nation" ) wrote the following: - "We lie to deceive ourselves, to exert another; We lie from compassion, lie in shame, to encourage ourselves, to hide our misery, lie about honesty. We lie for freedom. Lie is a form of Serbian patriotism and confirmation of our innate intelligence. We lie creatively, imaginatively, inventively. " - "Lie is a Serbian state interest." - "The lie is in the very essence of the Serbs". - "In this country every lie in the end becomes true." - "The Serbs have rescued themselves in history so many times with lies ...".
@Goran Hajder Origin of the name "Shqiptar" and Epirus = More concise on the issue, the only Nobel Prize in history 🎓 is none other than Theodor Mommsen 🥇 author of the cycle "Corpus of the inscriptions of antiquity" who says that: - "the brave Epirotes, the Albanians 🇦🇱 of antiquity supported with traditional loyalty the young and brave Pyrrhus or "the Eagle" as they called him" . Let us point out in this regard that the Albanians call themselves "Shqiptar", i.e. "sons or children of the Eagle". The soldiers of Pyrrhus (3rd century BC / Epirote King), called their King "the Eagle" and that the latter gave them back one day that they were his "children", so the Albanians are the children of the Eagle... "Shqiptar = child of the Eagle .... " . (Pyrrhus was the cousin of Alexander the Great, of the Molossian tribe and himself an ambitious conqueror, Pyrrhus is one of the most formidable opponents of the early days of ancient Rome). Let's not forget that nes Epirotes were an Illyrian tribe (🇦🇱) and not Greeks! There is also another interpretation of this ethnonym: the Eagle was one of the symbols of Zeus, Pelasgian god (🇦🇱) by excellence (source: cf Homer Iliad XVI,234). The Albanians would thus be the "sons of Zeus" thus "sons of the Eagle". Besides, these last ones (Albanians), whatever their religion, still call their God Zot (Zeus = Zojz = Zot), thus recalling the divine name of Zeus. On the other hand the word Shqip, before becoming an etnhonym (Shqiptar), has always designated the "Albanian language" (language shqip = clear language). Precision: Zeus was not a Greek god! (propaganda which it is spread)... Zeus was a Pelasgian god (🇦🇱) Example : Achilles : " Zeus, sovereign lord, O prince of Dodona, O you Pelasgic Zeus (🇦🇱), distant god who rules over Dodona, in this rough country of Selles... " Source: Homer, Iliad, XVI,233/234. Achilles did not say: Zeus the Greek, Zeus the Hellene or Zeus the Mycenaean... Then why in the school books, one qualifies Zeus of Greek? (just with this quotation, one realizes that modern historiography is not honest) Karl O.Müller: The more intelligence will enter the history of Greece, the more attention will be paid to the Pelasgic element sacrificed until now. Source : (Prolegomena-1825) Epirus = Historically, tribes like the Molossians or others that made up Epirus like the Kaons, Thesprotians, Paraue, Antintans and others, are historically linked to the Illyrian (🇦🇱) culture or part of it. As Thucydides tells us about the events of the Peloponnesian War, which involved both actually Illyrians and Illyria itself, these tribes were commonly considered barbarian (non-Greek) tribes. Thucydides: - "Among the barbarians there were about 1,000 Kaons who ruled without a king. In addition to the Kaons, the Thesprotians also participated and were also governed without a king. There were also the MOLOSSIANS, the Atintants and the Paraues. Source : ( HISTORY OF THE WAR OF THE PELOPONNESE ) All these tribes, mentioned by the historian of Athenian origin Thucydides for their participation in the famous war of Peloponnese in the 5th century BC, are considered as barbarians, thus not Greek! Source : ( Thucydides II, 80- IV, 126 ) The Kaons, the Thesprotians of Chamerie, the Arintans and the Parauets constitute the backbone of what was called Epirus. Among them appear of course the Molossians where are the roots of the family of the mother of Alexander the Great! And Thucydides is not the only source which defines the Epirotes like non-Greeks. There are many others! According to the encyclopedia Basic Antiquity, composed of 86 volumes... Pauly Wissowa the real "Encyclopedia Alterumswissenschaft" says that the Epirotes are of Illyrian origin 🇦🇱 and have strong ties to the population of southern Italy! Whether or not the Epirotes are Illyrians is a discussion that, from an archaeological point of view, is resolved. The Epirotes and the Illyrians have the same culture, if we consider the Iron Age, the use of tombs, the fortifications with several rows of walls, their material culture, the shape of the pots or the ornaments which are identical to those of Korça (present Albania) and the religion. Not only ancient authors such as Thucydides, Strabo and others have called the Epirotic tribes barbarians (non-Greek), but later serious publications based on documents and archaeological findings point in the same direction. The Molosses were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from which came the mother of Alexander the Great, Olympias, daughter of the king and sister of Alexander the Great. The Molosses were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great, Olympias, daughter of the king, and the sister of another well known Illyrian prince, Alexander the Molossus. Moreover the Greek armed forces committed an atrocious genocide on the Albanian civil population of Epirus (Çameria)!
@Goran Hajder Gjergj Kastriot Scanderbeg ( 31, October, 1460 ) : Moreover, you scorn our people, claiming the Albanians 🇦🇱 as nothing more than sheep, and according to your customs think of us with only insults. It would seem you know nothing of the origins of our race. Our elders were the Epirotes from whence Pyrrhus himself came forth, the might of whom the Romans could barely withstand. Those very Epirotes whom with their weapons set forth and conquered Taranto and much of Italy. There exists no challenge to their might from the likes of the Tarentines, a species of wet men born only to catch fish. And since you proclaim Albania 🇦🇱 a part of Macedonia, you grant also then, our elders as nobles who went as far as India under Alexander the Great, defeating all the peoples that came before them with great ease. From those men descend these who you call sheep. But the nature of things is not changed. Why do your men run away in the faces of sheep?" Source : Book VI or Pope Pius the II's Comentaries.
@Gogo Belopavelic The Second Battle of Kosovo (October 17-October 20, 1448) pitted a coalition of the Kingdom of Hungary and Wallachia led by John Hunyadi, against an Ottoman-led coalition under Sultan Murad II at Kosovo Polje. The Albanian troops under Skanderbeg (🇦🇱 Albanian 🦅), wanted to help the Hungarians, but Đurađ Branković (Serbian 🇷🇸), then ALLIED to Sultan Murad II (Ottoman), prevented the Albanian troops under Skanderbeg from helping the Hungarians... Source: Sedlar, Jean W. (1994). University of Washington Press. p. 393 As a result, Skanderbeg (🇦🇱) ravaged the estates of Branković (🇷🇸) as punishment for desertion of the Christian cause. Consequence = defeat of the Hungarians ... Source: Kenneth, Setton (1997) [1978] Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. p. 100.
@Goran Hajder Albania existed = Ethnicity = Skanderbeg himself defined himself as Albanian ( Ethnicity ) (handwritten letter). Ex : " Ioannes Antonius princeps Taranti Georgio Albano salutem " = Georgio the Albanian 🇦🇱 salutes the prince Giovanni of Taranto . Source : (Pope Pius II , Commentarii) The same prince Giovanni Antonio described Skanderbeg as "Georgio Albano".. Geography = Skanderbeg always signed himself as "Dominus Albaniae" (Albanian: Zot i Arbërisë, English: Lord of Albania🇦🇱) Source : Frazee, Charles A. (22 June 2006). Catholics and Sultans: The Church and the Ottoman Empire 1453-1923. Cambridge University Press. p. 33. The House of Kastrioti (Albanian: Dera e Kastriotëve) was an Albanian noble family, active in the 14th and 15th centuries as the rulers of the Principality of Kastrioti. At the beginning of the 15th century, the family controlled a territory in the Mat and Dibra regions. Exemple : Great grandfather = Kostandin Kastrioti Mazreku (died ca. 1390) was an Albanian 🇦🇱 regional ruler in parts of the wider Mat and Dibër areas. Grandfather = Pal Kastrioti was an Albanian 🇦🇱 medieval ruler in the latter part of the 14th century in northern Albania. Source : Genealogy of the Kastrioti family, Du Cange (1680), Historia Byzantina duplici commentario Even the Serbs of the time considered Skanderbeg as Albanian, his father (Gjon) was buried in an Orthodox monastery, the Serbs named the tower where he is buried "Albanian tower🇦🇱"... Source : ( Himelstir. p. 45 )
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Father Jovan (Serb, ortodox priest), mother Vojislava Branković ( famous Serb family). And someone call him Albanian, what a joke... In Serbia, they have original document about his birth and origin (from monastery where his father was a priest), it's easy to check it... Or much easer is to just look at names of his siblings, pure authentic Serbian's names, of all seven... However, Skenderberg did married Albanian woman and lived mostly among Albanians... His father got a parochy (parish) as priest in a place where majority were Albanians... Albanians can try to falsify history, but they can't change the facts...
His figure was used all around Europe to instigate a movement against the ottoman empire, especially in western Europe which the fear of the ottomans was not that great at the time yet. To that purpose many painters painted his portrait and he was mentioned in many works of literature in addition to having entire books written about him. To this day he probably has the most statues in different countries in Europe than any historical figure.
Imagine he had so little space and low number of soldiers and the only one that could take him down was God ! Amaizing and brave warrior ! We are talking about him 600 years after ,just imagine what sign he left in history... 🇦🇱 Strong and Pure illyrian Blood !!!
The father of the Serbian nation Dobrica Cosic considers the ability to lie and lying to be the highest moral virtue of the Serbian people and the foundation of foundation of Serbian pride. Here is a direct quote from Dobrica Cosic: "Lying is the greatest virtue of the Serbian people". Dobrica Cosic continues and says: "We lie to deceive ourselves... To console others, we lie to fight fear, to encourage ourselves, to hide our misery... Lying is a trait of our patriotism and the proof of our innate intelligence. We lie in a creative, imaginative and inventive way". Source : Deobe
Moreover, even the descendants of Skanderbeg from the Arbëresh community qualify as Albanians and not as Serbs ... Example : Shopie Castriota, loris Castriota etc ...
Alessandro Cutolo ( Italian historian ) : " Gjon ( father of Skanderbeg ) married Princess Vojsava, the daughter of another excellent Albanian🇦🇱 leader, the Lord of Polog " . Source : in is work "Skanderbeg" , p.20, published in Milan (Italy) in 1940. His mother ( Skanderbeg )came from the Muzaka family (Albanian) and not from the Brankovic family ... Father was Gjon Kastrioti, son of Pal Kastrioti. Mother was Voisava from the Muzaka-Family (as stated in the memoires of Gjon Muzaka written sometime before 1510) Documents from that time only state that she was an albanian. There are no serbian documents that state she was serbian. In his memoires Gjon Muzaka (before 1510) wrote that she is a muzaka. We only have two sources from that era that give us a hint of her origin. One is geographically and the other is ethnically . Geographic source: barleti wrote that it was from polog. Member of a noble house and tribal leader. Why tribal and not Serbian? First of all, the triballi were an ancient Thraco-Illyrian ( Albanian ) tribe. The same name was again used in the Middle Ages / Byzantine era for the inhabitants of the ancient tribal area. All the people who lived in this area were called triballi (Albanians, Bulgarians and Serbs). (And let's not forget that the Tribalians were Slavised for the majority ... But remained Thraco-Illyrian/Albanian in their blood ...) Today, the majority of Albanians in Macedonia live in the Polog region (the eastern part of Macedonia). Exemple : Appianus Alexandrinus (is a Greek historien of the Roman period) who qualified the Triballians of "Illyrian origin". Source : "historia Romana". Stephanus of Byzantium ( Great lexicographer of Constantinople, lived in the 6 th century), was written in the year 528-545, declares that the "Triballians are Illyrian. Source : From Urbibus and Populis. Other authors such as Strabo, Pliny, Ptolemy and Dion Cassius, state that the Triballians are of Thraco-Illyrian origin ( Pelasgians/Albanian ) Ethnical source: Gjon Muzaka wrote in his memoires that she was a muzaka. I think with the latter source we should conclude this whole discussion. As it is a very close source - chronological and physical. The person in this case Gjon Muzaka knew Voisava personally and he fought besides Skanderbeg and skanderbegs son. So he wouldnt dare to write something he would later regret right ? He wrote those memoires sometime before 1510 so basically before the book of barleti was printed.
The House of Kastrioti (Albanian: Dera e Kastriotëve) was an Albanian noble family, active in the 14th and 15th centuries as the rulers of the Principality of Kastrioti. At the beginning of the 15th century, the family controlled a territory in the Mat and Dibra regions. Exemple : Great grandfather = Kostandin Kastrioti Mazreku (died ca. 1390) was an Albanian 🇦🇱 regional ruler in parts of the wider Mat and Dibër areas. Grandfather = Pal Kastrioti was an Albanian 🇦🇱 medieval ruler in the latter part of the 14th century in northern Albania. Source : Genealogy of the Kastrioti family, Du Cange (1680), Historia Byzantina duplici commentario Ethnicity = Skanderbeg himself defined himself as Albanian ( Ethnicity ) (handwritten letter). Ex : " Ioannes Antonius princeps Taranti Georgio Albano salutem " = Georgio the Albanian 🇦🇱 salutes the prince Giovanni of Taranto . Source : (Pope Pius II , Commentarii) The same prince Giovanni Antonio described Skanderbeg as "Georgio Albano".. Geography = Skanderbeg always signed himself as "Dominus Albaniae" (Albanian: Zot i Arbërisë, English: Lord of Albania🇦🇱) Source : Frazee, Charles A. (22 June 2006). Catholics and Sultans: The Church and the Ottoman Empire 1453-1923. Cambridge University Press. p. 33. Even the Serbs of the time considered Skanderbeg as Albanian, his father (Gjon) was buried in an Orthodox monastery, the Serbs named the tower where he is buried "Albanian tower🇦🇱"... source : ( Himelstir. p. 45 )
The endless resources of a great empire , Ottomand could muster an army again and again and again.I really appreciate the vid on Skanderberg - Georg Kastrioti , a brilliant tactician and diplomat.Keep up the good work !
@Vard What would have happened if the Turks had stayed in Central Asia? If the Ottomans had not conquered Istanbul, there would have been no Renaissance. I see some Europeans behaving as if their only enemy is the Turks.
@Itachi Uchiha Well Pope died before the crusade was appointed. If that crusade was coming to fight the Turks with Supreme General Skanderbeg, Turks would be in Khazakstan today
@Gothic Zwo Skenderbeg was a SERB! His name was Đurađ Branilović Kastriotić (kastriot means the defender of Castrum= utvrđenje- castle, it was a kind of title in Serbian kingdom). His father was Jovan, grandfather Pavle, great grandfather BRANILO! Branilo was Kefalia in Serbian kingdom, he got from Serbian king few districts to manage and to protect southern Serbian borders. Đurađ's uncle was Kostadin, his brothers Repoš and Staniša, sisters Vlajka, Mamica, Jelena, Mara, Angelina (they all had Serbian names). His mother was Vojislava (Mladenović) Branković also named Srbljanka (Tribalda) Srbli=Trbli Srblian = Tribalian (in Greek). Đurađ's father and brother are buried in Srebian monastery Hilandar. They were all speaking Serbian, their letters are signed in Serbian language and script. Jovan Mološanin (albanized - Jon Muzaka), said in his memoirs that Skenderbeg "is of Serbian nature".
Skenderbeg was a SERB! His name was Đurađ Branilović Kastriotić (kastriot means the defender of Castrum= utvrđenje- castle, it was a kind of title in Serbian kingdom). His father was Jovan, grandfather Pavle, great grandfather BRANILO! Branilo was Kefalia in Serbian kingdom, he got from Serbian king few districts to manage and to protect southern Serbian borders. Đurađ's uncle was Kostadin, his brothers Repoš and Staniša, sisters Vlajka, Mamica, Jelena, Mara, Angelina (they all had Serbian names). His mother was Vojislava (Mladenović) Branković also named Srbljanka (Tribalda) Srbli=Trbli Srblian = Tribalian (in Greek). Đurađ's father and brother are buried in Srebian monastery Hilandar. They were all speaking Serbian, their letters are signed in Serbian language and script. Jovan Mološanin (albanized - Jon Muzaka), said in his memoirs that Skenderbeg "is of Serbian nature".
I feel always respected when I am in Budapest , like Albanian and still Catolic I feel that they respect me and my pasport from Gjergj Kastrioti and this makes me go many many times there I wish I could known some Hungarian but however is nice when people welcomed you so HUNGARY is a great nation and always should be our aleat
@Edison Ahmeti I can't do it because you don't collaborate. First you must provide me your appointments, your arguments, tell me what might be wrong and explicitly explain why, be more specific..
This man was a special war strategy master! He was also strong as hell! He used strategies to deaf ottomans attacks so many times. Ottomans best known sultans too. And the best part, turkey respectfully agrees with all this history and how much trouble they had with Skenderbeg. So props to turks not being losers and discrediting him
One must give credit when credit is due. There's no denying the obvious.Clearly we trained him too well and he used our own tactics against us.I take my hat off to the guy for putting up such stiff resistance to the Ottomans. In Turkey we have a saying "bükemediğin bileği öpeceksin" ie. You must kiss the hand you can't defeat.
Scanderbeg is the one of the one. We are still chatolics albanians of Mirdita region. Scanderbeg and Lek Dukagjini are protecters of West Europe. We are proud to be descendants of His Majesty
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@HELLENIC NATIONALISM welp did u ever heard about Andreas palailogos the last byzantine emperor heir gave away his claim to the imperial title for spanish monarch? this time to Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile
@Reynold Tanto The Russian Empire.
@HELLENIC NATIONALISM good work along of venetian, Austrian,and hre.
Well let's talk about ,What empire should be the rightful succesor of roman empire.if we assumed they should be till today , Spanish,russian, ottoman,greek , french? Or?
@Leo what happened if there no venetian, Austrian, and hre at the end of the day😂😂😂roman empire falls at 5th or 15th,but let's talk about ,What empire should be the rightful succesor of roman empire.if we assumed they should be till today , Spanish,russian, ottoman,greek , french? Or?
Skanderbeg king of the Balkans together with the Hungarians, he fought harder against Turkey while the Serbian king married the sultan's daughter and betrayed the princes who fought the Turk
Unë jam Arbëreshë.
I am Arbëreshë. We are the Descents of Skanderbeg's Army living in Italy. Our major group of villages are in Calabria. My Town is Santa Sofia d'Epiro. 🇦🇱☦🇮🇹 We preserve a 600 year old Language, the customs, traditions, cuisine, clothing, and Above All, the Faith of Christ ☦
Mirumpfashim,
Thanasi 🇦🇱☦🇮🇹
@Jana Kolašinac hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah! I wonder what is it like living in a La La Land?
I am from Kosova. My dream and plan for the future is to visit the Arberesh towns of Calabria and meet my blood brothers. I have the most profound respect for Arberesh who guarded Scanderbeg's legacy!
@Xhapito hahaha go lie to one Other haha
@Aro Matish jam nje arbëresh Muslim
@Dragana Kalamanda no she wasnt😂 she was apart of the Muzaka family no where in the brankovic family tree she appears
This guy managed to survive an attack from Murad II, defeated or survived against more or less 10 Ottoman armies over the years that outnumbers him, and even hold back Mehmed II, the one that conquered Constantinople.
He basically gave a lot of time to Europe to prepare against a very powerful empire. It's not an exaggeration that Mehmed II called him 'a shield of Europe'.
Because he was trained for war by the Ottomans in Istanbul. He learnt all the tactics from them
@Albanischer Nationalist his mother Vojsava Tripalda was albanian princess family's (100%) She born in Pollog region (albanian east and Kosovo south)
The original name of the family of Kastrioti (Castriota) was Merzeku.
Kastriot, Kastrat in Has (🇦🇱), Kastrat in Dibra (🇦🇱) or the microtoponym "Kostur" near the village of Mazrek in the Has region.
Source 📜:Bela 2019, p. 229.
In connection to the Kastrioti family name, it is very likely that the name of one the different Kastriot or Kastrat which were fortified settlements as their etymology shows (castrum = Latin) was as their family name.
The Kastrioti may have originated from this village (🇦🇱) or probably had acquired it as pronoia.
Source 📜: Omari 2014, p. 44
Angelo used the cognomen Meserechus in reference to Skanderbeg and this link to the same name is produced in other sources and reproduced in later ones like Du Cange's Historia Byzantina (1680).
Source📜 : Malaj 2013, p. 43
These links highlight that the Kastrioti used Mazreku as a name that highlighted their tribal affiliation (farefisni).
Source 📜: Malaj 2013, p. 44
The name Mazrek(u), which means horse breeder in Albanian, is found throughout ALL Albanian regions 🇦🇱.
Source📜 : Malaj 2013, p. 45.
The Kastrioti themselves where organised in a tribal structure and formed a fis or clan/tribe.
Source📜 : Gall, Timothy L.; Hobby, Janeen (2009). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life: Europe. p. 27.
Gjergj Kastriot Scanderbeg ( 31, October, 1460 ) :
Moreover, you scorn our people, claiming the
Albanians 🇦🇱 as nothing more than sheep, and
according to your customs think of us with only
insults. It would seem you know nothing of the
origins of our race. Our elders were the Epirotes
from whence Pyrrhus himself came forth, the
might of whom the Romans could barely
withstand. Those very Epirotes whom with their
weapons set forth and conquered Taranto and
much of Italy.
There exists no challenge to their might from the
likes of the Tarentines, a species of wet men
born only to catch fish.
And since you proclaim Albania 🇦🇱 a part of
Macedonia, you grant also then, our elders as
nobles who went as far as India under Alexander
the Great, defeating all the peoples that came
before them with great ease.
From those men descend these who you call
sheep. But the nature of things is not changed.
Why do your men run away in the faces of
sheep?"
Source📜 : Book VI or Pope Pius the II's Comentaries.
Origin of the name "Shqiptar" and Epirus =
More concise on the issue, the only Nobel Prize in history 🎓 is none other than Theodor Mommsen 🥇 author of the cycle "Corpus of the inscriptions of antiquity" who says that: - "the brave Epirotes, the Albanians 🇦🇱 of antiquity supported with traditional loyalty the young and brave Pyrrhus or "the Eagle" as they called him" .
Let us point out in this regard that the Albanians call themselves "Shqiptar", i.e. "sons or children of the Eagle".
The soldiers of Pyrrhus (3rd century BC / Epirote King), called their King "the Eagle" and that the latter gave them back one day that they were his "children", so the Albanians are the children of the Eagle...
"Shqiptar = child of the Eagle .... " .
(Pyrrhus was the cousin of Alexander the Great, of the Molossian tribe and himself an ambitious conqueror, Pyrrhus is one of the most formidable opponents of the early days of ancient Rome).
Let's not forget that nes Epirotes were an Illyrian tribe (🇦🇱) and not Greeks!
There is also another interpretation of this ethnonym: the Eagle was one of the symbols of Zeus, Pelasgian god (🇦🇱) by excellence (source📜: cf Homer Iliad XVI,234).
The Albanians would thus be the "sons of Zeus" thus "sons of the Eagle".
Besides, these last ones (Albanians), whatever their religion, still call their God Zot (Zeus = Zojz = Zot), thus recalling the divine name of Zeus.
On the other hand the word Shqip, before becoming an etnhonym (Shqiptar), has always designated the "Albanian language" (language shqip = clear language).
Precision: Zeus was not a Greek god! (propaganda which it is spread)...
Zeus was a Pelasgian god (🇦🇱)
Example : Achilles : " Zeus, sovereign lord, O prince of Dodona, O you Pelasgic Zeus (🇦🇱), distant god who rules over Dodona, in this rough country of Selles... "
Source📜: Homer, Iliad, XVI,233/234.
Achilles did not say: Zeus the Greek, Zeus the Hellene or Zeus the Mycenaean...
Then why in the school books, one qualifies Zeus of Greek?
(just with this quotation, one realizes that modern historiography is not honest)
Karl O.Müller: The more intelligence will enter the history of Greece, the more attention will be paid to the Pelasgic element sacrificed until now.
Source📜 : (Prolegomena-1825)
Epirus =
Historically, tribes like the Molossians or others that made up Epirus like the Kaons, Thesprotians, Paraue, Antintans and others, are historically linked to the Illyrian (🇦🇱) culture or part of it.
As Thucydides tells us about the events of the Peloponnesian War, which involved both actually Illyrians and Illyria itself, these tribes were commonly considered barbarian (non-Greek) tribes.
Thucydides: - "Among the barbarians there were about 1,000 Kaons who ruled without a king. In addition to the Kaons, the Thesprotians also participated and were also governed without a king. There were also the MOLOSSIANS, the Atintants and the Paraues.
Source 📜: ( HISTORY OF THE WAR OF THE PELOPONNESE )
All these tribes, mentioned by the historian of Athenian origin Thucydides for their participation in the famous war of Peloponnese in the 5th century BC, are considered as barbarians, thus not Greek!
Source 📜: ( Thucydides II, 80- IV, 126 )
The Kaons, the Thesprotians of Chamerie, the Arintans and the Parauets constitute the backbone of what was called Epirus.
Among them appear of course the Molossians where are the roots of the family of the mother of Alexander the Great!
And Thucydides is not the only source which defines the Epirotes like non-Greeks.
There are many others!
According to the encyclopedia Basic Antiquity, composed of 86 volumes... Pauly Wissowa the real "Encyclopedia Alterumswissenschaft📜" says that the Epirotes are of Illyrian origin 🇦🇱 and have strong ties to the population of southern Italy!
Whether or not the Epirotes are Illyrians is a discussion that, from an archaeological point of view, is resolved.
The Epirotes and the Illyrians have the same culture, if we consider the Iron Age, the use of tombs, the fortifications with several rows of walls, their material culture, the shape of the pots or the ornaments which are identical to those of Korça (present Albania) and the religion.
Not only ancient authors such as Thucydides, Strabo and others have called the Epirotic tribes barbarians (non-Greek), but later serious publications based on documents and archaeological findings point in the same direction.
The Molosses were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from which came the mother of Alexander the Great, Olympias, daughter of the king and sister of Alexander the Great.
The Molosses were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great, Olympias, daughter of the king, and the sister of another well known Illyrian prince, Alexander the Molossus.
Moreover the Greek armed forces committed an atrocious genocide on the Albanian civil population of Epirus (Çameria)!
Ethnicity = Skanderbeg himself defined himself as Albanian ( Ethnicity ) (handwritten letter).
Ex :
" Ioannes Antonius princeps Taranti Georgio Albano salutem "
= Georgio the Albanian 🇦🇱 salutes the prince Giovanni of Taranto .
Source 📜: (Pope Pius II , Commentarii)
The same prince Giovanni Antonio described Skanderbeg as "Georgio Albano"..
Geography = Skanderbeg always signed himself as "Dominus Albaniae" (Albanian: Zot i Arbërisë, English: Lord of Albania🇦🇱)
Source 📜: Frazee, Charles A. (22 June 2006). Catholics and Sultans: The Church and the Ottoman Empire 1453-1923. Cambridge University Press. p. 33.
The House of Kastrioti (Albanian: Dera e Kastriotëve) was an Albanian noble family, active in the 14th and 15th centuries as the rulers of the Principality of Kastrioti. At the beginning of the 15th century, the family controlled a territory in the Mat and Dibra regions.
Exemple :
Great grandfather = Kostandin Kastrioti Mazreku (died ca. 1390) was an Albanian 🇦🇱 regional ruler in parts of the wider Mat and Dibër areas.
Grandfather = Pal Kastrioti was an Albanian 🇦🇱 medieval ruler in the latter part of the 14th century in northern Albania.
Source 📜: Genealogy of the Kastrioti family, Du Cange (1680), Historia Byzantina duplici commentario
Even the Serbs of the time considered Skanderbeg as Albanian, his father (Gjon) was buried in an Orthodox monastery, the Serbs named the tower where he is buried "Albanian tower 🇦🇱"...
source📜 : ( Himelstir. p. 45 )
Moreover, even the descendants of Skanderbeg from the Arbëresh community qualify as Albanians 🇦🇱 and not as Serbs ...
Example : Shopie Castriota, loris Castriota etc ...
Alessandro Cutolo ( Italian historian ) :
" Gjon ( father of Skanderbeg ) married Princess Vojsava, the daughter of another excellent Albanian🇦🇱 leader, the Lord of Polog " .
Source 📜: in is work "Skanderbeg" , p.20, published in Milan (Italy) in 1940.
His mother ( Skanderbeg )came from the Muzaka family (Albanian) and not from the Brankovic family ...
Father was Gjon Kastrioti, son of Pal Kastrioti. Mother was Voisava from the Muzaka-Family (as stated in the memoires of Gjon Muzaka written sometime before 1510)
Documents from that time only state that she was an albanian.
There are no serbian documents that state she was serbian. In his memoires Gjon Muzaka (before 1510) wrote that she is a muzaka.
We only have two sources from that era that give us a hint of her origin. One is geographically and the other is ethnically .
Geographic source:
barleti wrote that it was from polog. Member of a noble house and tribal leader.
Why tribal and not Serbian?
First of all, the triballi were an ancient Thraco-Illyrian ( Albanian ) tribe.
The same name was again used in the Middle Ages / Byzantine era for the inhabitants of the ancient tribal area.
All the people who lived in this area were called triballi (Albanians, Bulgarians and Serbs).
(And let's not forget that the Tribalians were Slavised for the majority ...
But remained Thraco-Illyrian/Albanian in their blood ...)
Today, the majority of Albanians in Macedonia live in the Polog region (the eastern part of Macedonia).
Exemple :
Appianus Alexandrinus (is a Greek historien of the Roman period) who qualified the Triballians of "Illyrian origin".
Source📜 : "historia Romana".
Stephanus of Byzantium ( Great lexicographer of Constantinople, lived in the 6 th century), was written in the year 528-545, declares that the "Triballians are Illyrian.
Source : From Urbibus and Populis.
Other authors such as Strabo, Pliny, Ptolemy and Dion Cassius, state that the Triballians are of Thraco-Illyrian origin ( Pelasgians/Albanian )
Ethnical source:
Gjon Muzaka wrote in his memoires that she was a muzaka.
I think with the latter source we should conclude this whole discussion.
As it is a very close source - chronological and physical. The person in this case Gjon Muzaka knew Voisava personally and he fought besides Skanderbeg and skanderbegs son.
So he wouldnt dare to write something he would later regret right ? He wrote those memoires sometime before 1510 so basically before the book of barleti was printed.
@Zeni Nimoni Stupid guy, "Bey" is a term used for governorship in the Ottoman Empire. For example, when the "Beyi" of Egypt appoints a governor of an Ottoman land, "Bey" comes next to the man's name. "Sir" and Lord are not in the same sense.
How have I never heard of him before!?!? We praise "great" generals who always had numerical superiority and more advanced weapons but this man had neither AND STILL WON EVERY BATTLE!
@more options forget everything bro, now I read what I wrote and this is from 3 years ago I regret cause I was a kid back then 😂😂 I’m very sorry that I have offended our nation, now I just dream of coming back one day
@DJ G yes but he was named from vatican athlet of christ only him and achile have this tittle and he saved all world from ottomans in those years..and he was fighting with max 5000 soldiers 😂 but often only with 1000 soldier but they was like navy seal 😂
@ahmet turkmen and they knew his as they trained him too
More than 21 000 comments about scanderbeg
His life needs to be in Hollywood movie
@AYDA KUTAY yes mongols 😁
@𐔟𐔓𐔍𐔠𐔇𐔙𐔛𐔀𐔐 In 1854, an Austrian diplomat and Albanian language specialist, Johann Georg von Hahn, identified the Pelasgian language with Proto-Albanian. This theory is not supported by any scientific evidence, and is seen as a myth by modern scholars
Mackridge, Peter (2007-2008). "Aspects of language and identity in the Greek peninsula since the eighteenth century". The Newsletter of the Society Farsarotul. Vol. XXI & XXII, no. 1 & 2. Society Farsarotul. pp. 16-17. Soon after this the "Pelasgian theory" was formulated, according to which the Greek and Albanian languages were claimed to have a common origin in Pelasgian, while the Albanians themselves are Pelasgians and hence come from the same ethnological stock as the Greeks. The "Pelasgian theory" began to take shape in the 1850s and 1860s and became widespread in the 1870s. ... Needless to say, there is absolutely no scientific evidence to support any of these theories.
Schwandner-Sievers & Fischer 2002; Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers and Bernd Jürgen Fischer, editors of Albanian Identities: Myth and History, present papers resulting from the London Conference held in 1999 entitled "The Role of Myth in the History and Development of Albania." The "Pelasgian" myth of Albanians as the most ancient community in southeastern Europe is among those explored in Noel Malcolm's essay, "Myths of Albanian National Identity: Some Key Elements, As Expressed in the Works of Albanian Writers in America in the Early Twentieth Century". The introductory essay by Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers establishes the context of the "Pelasgian Albanian" mythos, applicable to Eastern Europe generally, in terms of the longing for a stable identity in a rapidly opening society.
Agreed
He is almost a national hero in Hungary too, respect.
@Pranvera ohri what empire u think should be the legitimate succesor of roman empire?
Janos Hunyadi is also well known by every albanian as the most important ally of Gjergj Kastrioti
@sphere mechanical D Martini Don't be sorry at all.The islam of albanians is not a radical one but in general it's superficial.There were some reasons for that and the main ones were the carier, holding arms and to escape the terror of serbs who pressed them to convert from cathlics to orthodox faith.Anyway albanians are muslims,christian orthodox and cathlics and a great part,maybe the greater don't believe at all.They live the life of a normal european with all the attitudes of the western world.There is a propaganda by serbs and greeks about the islamic risc by the albanians to justify the occupation of albanian territories like Kosova and South Epirus granted to them after the FWwar together the territories of Macedonia and Montenegro.Greetings!
@arben geci I thought u were turks.Well let's talk about ,What empire should be the rightful succesor of roman empire.if we assumed they should be till today , Spanish,russian, ottoman,greek , french? Or?
@Ana Duksha skanderbeg issa true hero.r u even an albanian?
One of the greatest and most underrated European commanders in history. Respect Albania from Austria! 🇦🇱🇦🇹
@Popushi Mi Khito tell me your delusional without telling me your delusional 🤭
Skanderbeg was raised in Ottoman palaces and fought for the Ottoman army. Therefore, he achieved success against the Ottomans. It's easy to ambush the enemy anyway, as the Albanian terrain is hilly.
Rrespekt bro 🇦🇱🇦🇹❤️❤️
Fun fact : Arm wrestling in romanian means skandenberg :)) , Just that you can see how much respect we have for this man !!
@Dimitris Kiriakidis That Skanderbeg is Albanian ?
@Predrag Simic his dog was probably 😅
@Erick Behari haha where in history is this ridiculous things written?
@Albert Sadiku as a romanian, i had albanian friends who told me this long time ago, legend says only one sheperd managed to beat him in armarestlig.
Skanderbeg and vlad what the impaler what a great duo
You know you're a legend when not even 100,000 troops can defeat you when you have barely a quarter of that. Skanderbeg was a great man, one of the greatest resistance fighters in history. Every Christian and European should pay their respect to him.
@DR LU JESUS CHRIST = GOD
@DR LU No they did skanderbeg forced them to convert to christianity he converted himself too
@Mario Perndrecaj Stop spreading lies , Albanians never cared about Religion that's the beauty of it
@DR LU No he did care when he came to albania he told everyone either convert to christianity or die
In central London (Bayswater), Skanderbeg has a statue saying his full name and birth-death date along with this “invincible Albanian national hero, defender of western civilization.”
@Zeljko Stanisic albania before otoman was split in roman cristian the north and South albania are are orthodox. This is becouse roman empire was split in Western and east empire. The line was part of the north in Milot. So Mirdita scutary half o mountin region remained as Cristiian becouse otomans didn dare to approach to them.
Long live our brothers. Support and love from Hungary! 🇭🇺❤️🇦🇱
@godi8 vezér Although we have fought over the concept of religion in the past, our origins are actually the same. The majority of Hungarians today are Cuman Kipchak Turks, and we, as Turks of Turkey, are half Oghuz half Kipchak Turks. Sending my love to fellow HUNgarians!
Serbians talk about the battle of Kosovo, claiming Kosovo belongs to Serbia because of this fight. But Serbia lost that battle! Meanwhile, Skanderbeg and Albania actually won during his battle in Kosovo, not to mention a dozen other battles!
Hungary and albania will always be good friends 🤝
Scanderbeg and Hunyadi - the great heroes of the past.
enver pasha I love Turkey and Albania too. Both are our brothers
Albania historical brother
Turkey genetic, Hunnic brother
Without a doubt, Skanderbeg was a great warrior to not only Albanians, but to Europe itself. Even if his small Kingdom would fall, it sat together because of him. That is how powerful and great this man was to a degree.. Huge respect
Voisava kastrioti despite her serbian name was Albanian because she was Baptized in Serbian church
@nez perce no it’s tough being Serbian actually. Because I am proud to be Albanian and call myself so. On the contrary you want to take pride with a hero that has no relation whatsoever with your country. Now think again.
@nez perce oh yeah? What was written in Latin? That he was a Serb? Lmfao. You might as well need to make an appointment with your local doctor to check your eye sight. I feel sorry for you. Hope you get better though.
@nez perce yes in his letter sent to Pope he called himself “George Kastrioti Albanese” “Gjergj Kastrioti the Albanian”. I don’t see where tf does the serb come in this topic though? Keep reading and ask yourself again wtf am I saying.
How many victories do you want?
Skanderbeg: Yes
@Rennor source: “i heard evidences”
I heard and witnessed certain evidence whuch indicate that ethnically Skanderbeg was not Albanian but a Greco-Serbian whose family owned land in Albania.
I won't make any conclusions just yet, however I will assume this a possibility and has certain facts supporting it, for example: Kastriot is a Greek name from "Kastro', for castle or fortress. His mother had a name of slavic origins 'Vojslava', and his father may have had relatiosn to the Brankovic family.
He may have adressed himself as 'Albanian in his letters', but keep in mind this is the 15th century and the concept of national identity didn't develop, his title as 'Prince of the Albanians' was to justify his authority and claim over the lands he ruled.
@Etruscans are TURK 🇹🇷 ah yes the famous ataturk line
How many victories do you want:
Atatürk: Yes
During the dark sieges of Kruje, when morale was at its lowest, it was Skanderbeg’s speeches that empowered the soldiers and uplifted their spirits. He became a grand symbol of Albanian national unity, freedom, faith, solidarity and identity.
@Slavic Star he declared him self albanian prince of epirus prince of emathia and king of albania
not gaybian
@𐔟𐔓𐔍𐔠𐔇𐔙𐔛𐔀𐔐 father? lol you said enough
@Slavic Star The father of the Serbian nation Dobrica Cosic considers the ability to lie and lying to be the
highest moral virtue of the Serbian people and the foundation of
foundation of Serbian pride.
Here is a direct quote from Dobrica Cosic: "Lying is the
greatest virtue of the Serbian people".
Dobrica Cosic continues and says: "We lie to deceive ourselves...
To console others, we lie to fight fear, to encourage ourselves, to hide our misery...
Lying is a trait of our
patriotism and the proof of our innate intelligence.
We lie in a creative, imaginative and inventive way".
Source : Deobe
The Second Battle of Kosovo (October 17-October 20, 1448) pitted a coalition of the Kingdom of Hungary and Wallachia led by John Hunyadi, against an Ottoman-led coalition under Sultan Murad II at Kosovo Polje.
The Albanian troops under Skanderbeg (🇦🇱 Albanian 🦅), wanted to help the Hungarians, but Đurađ Branković (Serbian 🇷🇸), then ALLIED to Sultan Murad II (Ottoman), prevented the Albanian troops under Skanderbeg from helping the Hungarians...
Source: Sedlar, Jean W. (1994). University of Washington Press. p. 393
As a result, Skanderbeg (🇦🇱) ravaged the estates of Branković (🇷🇸) as punishment for desertion of the Christian cause.
Consequence = defeat of the Hungarians ...
Source📜: Kenneth, Setton (1997) [1978] Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. p. 100.
Had heard of Skanderberg before, but hadn't known about him in this much detail. Great general and great warrior, respect where it's due, greetings from Turkey.
I am christian but respect my muslim colleagues
Yeah Skanderbeg was amazing no doubt he is.
@Game testing lab Christianity Islam and Judaism are three branches of the same tree of Abrahamic/ lbrahim relegion that came to Europe from the arabian deserts my friend. They all share the same root o semitic peoples. Jesus was hebrew and Mohamed was an arab that come from the same ancestor Abraham/ lbrahim they are brothers from same father and two different mothers. Abraham had two sons, Ismael with Hagar( from which became the arab people) and lsaac with Sarah ( from which became jewish people) so whichever religion you follow( be it Judaism Christianity or lslam) you still follow a religion that comes from semitic people in arabian desert. None of them is strictly and "pure" European. Everybody is free to have personal preference. Albanians are known as the most tolerant people when it comes to religion because they value ethnicity and bloodline over any religion. For albanians beeing an Albanian is a religion in itself. Stay well neighbour
Grigor Kosta title caliph gained during the sultan selim, he conqured the mamlukes,you can find it in this channel
Grigor Kosta Im glad u stopped responded for your own sake, bless u
From a Serb big respect to Skanderbeg! 3 decades repelling Ottoman expansion. Him and many other hero’s changed the fate of Europe!
@tom gu anime boy bffr delusional 🤭
@Why? Whyyy? Why wouldn't they? The Serbian lord gave his sister to the Sultan to warm his harem. Serbs were tactical geniuses where they would hand their sisters and daughters to Turks right off the bat and that made the Turks weak on the knees. Thus they kept Serbs close to them for two centuries. The mofos even fought for the Turks in Anatolia. The level of commitment...
he would have expelled Ottomans totally if Serbs would have joined him and Hunyadi but you chose to stay loyal to the Sultan
Well he is a serb why shouldn't he be your hero
in belgium in brussels more precisely schaerbeek, there is a statue of him in his honor mentioned his date of birth and his death, because this man was really a warrior and a strategist. respect to the strong and proud Albanian people
@Cagdas Ozkan cause all of Europe celebrates European heros
@Cagdas Ozkan becouse he stopped ottomans for 25 years
Why would the Belgians have a statue of him
I'm an Italo-Albanian,better known as Arbëreshe people,and I can confirm that Skanderbeg is like a God to us.Greetings to the people of Albania and Kosova 🇦🇱🇽🇰🇮🇹
But turks are stronger
I’m a albanian second generation in usa New York I’m amazed how the arberesh kept their language and their culture respect to you all brothers
Do not forget ur language my man it’s a shame if u lose ur skanderbeg language ur blood
@Jana Kolašinac you have a lot of theories and all are confuse like your brain duo by serbian propaganda. Albanian are autoctonus like the language with is mostly latin influnce, and geneticly with almost zero influence from Asia fortunaly. You cant avoid the historical facts with the porpose to be something that you never been. I will not even waste my time to correct all your theories with historical facts, international experts and peerper view articles. Even my surname is an anciet illyrian city, and based to the church archives, being catholich, for centuries we never been even close in some mix to slavic people and iam from north. Cheers
Skanderbeg is on of the greatest warriors, a hero, love to our brothers 🇦🇱🇬🇷
@Santino Rocco actually his mom is apart of the Albanian Muzaka family so no.
@Amadeus Kabala I accept historicity as a fact, and the fact that few Albanians were tested..
@HELLENIC NATIONALISM Again, you are not judging upon the concrete facts but upon your wished facts.
And this is your problem. “Emotions manipulate our perception of the world” says Sartre and that prevents you
to accept the facts and to put into question your opinion about the origin of Albanians. You just reflect the unfounded claims of Greek nationalists of the 19th and 20th century that:
1) Albanians are nothing but Albanian-speaking Turks and Arabs;
2) the Arvanit are only Albanian-speaking or Albanian-singing Greeks; and 3) the same you apply for the Arnavut (= Arbanite = Arvanit = Arbëresh) in Turkey.
It is useless to discuss further, because it is like a dialogue between deaf people.
All the best!
After death of Skanderbeg, Mehmed II said "Europe lost it’s sword and shield."
@ahmet turkmen before skenderbeu served ottoman albanians resisted too not just after but he really destroyed ottomans for good that ottomans did not even dream to conquer europe
@G. H. your tiny little people cannot conquer Europe. Don’t be too excited. Ottomans did utilise albanians and nothing changed. Skanderbeg served in the ottoman army for 20 years. Did he conquer Europe no? Albanian Janissaries were in the Ottoman army. did they conquer Europe? No.
@Ninjaa 695 Ahaha Ataturk 🤣
@Arvin Shkozayou sure lol many battles did gayaturk win? Skanderbeg massacred over 400k Turks while only losing under 20k lol memhed the second was getting fucked by him.
I am a Turk but i have a deep respect for skanderbeg He was proud of Albanians Even Turkish Sultan Mehmed 2 had a deep respect for him too Greetings to Albanians Nice people of the balkans
@Milan Mišić 😂 im dying if you want him serb ok..but its like you calling someone dad,your dad
@Avitius Rufinus brooo 💀💀
Rrespekt its done what its done it always stays in the past respect is above all 🇦🇱🇹🇷❤❤
We Turks always admire good warriors, respect to Iskander beg.
@Miran Krka epiriotes was the name given to the Albanians by the Greeks. Romans gave us the name ilirioum that doesn’t mean the people of Albania agreed with the names given to them. In Albania we call ourselves Sqiptar, a word invented by the double headed eagle we have as our flag. ‘Shqiponje’ in Albanian means eagle
Stop it ladies!!! It’s simple !! Why would a Turk would wanna be Albanian ?
Albanians and aTurks today are brothers))))
wtf? never heard of this guy in my history books back in school. Skanderbeg deserved a whole book, not just a chapter. yet not even his name was mentioned. stupid school
@Ana B. Bravo!
Of course, it is Đurađ Kastriot, the Serbian hero from the royal family of Branković, of noble origin, whom the Albanians appropriated as a national hero. Look for the truth and you will find it.
@Ana B. Send sources
@Ana B. send sources
@Ana B. You tell me that Skanderbeg's father (etc) was buried in Hilandar...
So what?
In his honor St. George, the tower of the monastery in Hilandar was known as the "Albanian tower🇦🇱" in reference to its Albanian origins .
Source: Slijepčević, Đoko M. (1983). Srpsko-arbanaški odnosi kroz vekove sa posebnim osvrtom na novije vreme (in Serbian). Himelstir. p. 45 .
How is this dude not as famous as Vlad the Impaler or any other general who opposed the Ottomans? He achieved much more, with less resources, against greater odds at the height of Ottoman's strenght while they were being led by some of the greatest leaders that any Islamic nation has ever had.
Dude should be canonized as a saint, "defender of christianity" or something.
@more options Not hit and Run because he did also open battles
Bro only him and achile are named from vatican athlet of christ so he is very famous and he was doing damage he was all time hit and run thats the key 😂
Because when I tell people I’m from Albanian most will ask “where??”
@TURKISH ETRUSCAN KNIGHT Scanderbeg was helping Ferdinand the Naples King at the Time. His nephew led the army but he Betrayed Scanderbeg just like Muzaka in Berat
Skanderbeg, our great Hero, we will never forget what he did for us! 🇦🇱❤
II.Mehmed Conqueror Greece:1453
II.Mehmed Conqueror Serbia:1461
II.Mehmed Conqueror Albania:1463
II.Mehmed Conqueror Romania:1465
@Огњен Марков Cry😂😂😂😂
@Efe temporary setbacks lol the amount of times people like skanderbeg in Europe slaughtered ottoman armies is embarrassing, ottomans only recovered because of the mass armies they could put together but most of the time even when outnumbering their enemy they got their asses kicked.
@Arbian Hamiti prej mga je?
The Second Battle of Kosovo (October 17-October 20, 1448) pitted a coalition of the Kingdom of Hungary and Wallachia led by John Hunyadi, against an Ottoman-led coalition under Sultan Murad II at Kosovo Polje.
The Albanian troops under Skanderbeg (🇦🇱 Albanian 🦅), wanted to help the Hungarians, but Đurađ Branković (Serbian 🇷🇸), then ALLIED to Sultan Murad II (Ottoman), prevented the Albanian troops under Skanderbeg from helping the Hungarians...
Source: Sedlar, Jean W. (1994). University of Washington Press. p. 393
As a result, Skanderbeg (🇦🇱) ravaged the estates of Branković (🇷🇸) as punishment for desertion of the Christian cause.
Consequence = defeat of the Hungarians ...
Source: Kenneth, Setton (1997) [1978] Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. p. 100.
Scanderbeg needs a Hollywood movie.. He's the parallel of William Wallace "Braveheart".
What George Kastrioti did, is LEGENDARY.
The father of the Serbian nation Dobrica Cosic considers the ability to lie and lying to be the
highest moral virtue of the Serbian people and the foundation of
foundation of Serbian pride.
Here is a direct quote from Dobrica Cosic: "Lying is the
greatest virtue of the Serbian people".
Dobrica Cosic continues and says: "We lie to deceive ourselves...
To console others, we lie to fight fear, to encourage ourselves, to hide our misery...
Lying is a trait of our
patriotism and the proof of our innate intelligence.
We lie in a creative, imaginative and inventive way".
Source : Deobe
The Second Battle of Kosovo (October 17-October 20, 1448) pitted a coalition of the Kingdom of Hungary and Wallachia led by John Hunyadi, against an Ottoman-led coalition under Sultan Murad II at Kosovo Polje.
The Albanian troops under Skanderbeg (🇦🇱 Albanian 🦅), wanted to help the Hungarians, but Đurađ Branković (Serbian 🇷🇸), then ALLIED to Sultan Murad II (Ottoman), prevented the Albanian troops under Skanderbeg from helping the Hungarians...
Source: Sedlar, Jean W. (1994). University of Washington Press. p. 393
As a result, Skanderbeg (🇦🇱) ravaged the estates of Branković (🇷🇸) as punishment for desertion of the Christian cause.
Consequence = defeat of the Hungarians ...
Source: Kenneth, Setton (1997) [1978] Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. p. 100.
Origin of the name "Shqiptar" and Epirus =
More concise on the issue, the only Nobel Prize in history 🎓 is none other than Theodor Mommsen 🥇 author of the cycle "Corpus of the inscriptions of antiquity" who says that: - "the brave Epirotes, the Albanians 🇦🇱 of antiquity supported with traditional loyalty the young and brave Pyrrhus or "the Eagle" as they called him" .
Let us point out in this regard that the Albanians call themselves "Shqiptar", i.e. "sons or children of the Eagle".
The soldiers of Pyrrhus (3rd century BC / Epirote King), called their King "the Eagle" and that the latter gave them back one day that they were his "children", so the Albanians are the children of the Eagle...
"Shqiptar = child of the Eagle .... " .
(Pyrrhus was the cousin of Alexander the Great, of the Molossian tribe and himself an ambitious conqueror, Pyrrhus is one of the most formidable opponents of the early days of ancient Rome).
Let's not forget that nes Epirotes were an Illyrian tribe (🇦🇱) and not Greeks!
There is also another interpretation of this ethnonym: the Eagle was one of the symbols of Zeus, Pelasgian god (🇦🇱) by excellence (source: cf Homer Iliad XVI,234).
The Albanians would thus be the "sons of Zeus" thus "sons of the Eagle".
Besides, these last ones (Albanians), whatever their religion, still call their God Zot (Zeus = Zojz = Zot), thus recalling the divine name of Zeus.
On the other hand the word Shqip, before becoming an etnhonym (Shqiptar), has always designated the "Albanian language" (language shqip = clear language).
Precision: Zeus was not a Greek god! (propaganda which it is spread)...
Zeus was a Pelasgian god (🇦🇱)
Example : Achilles : " Zeus, sovereign lord, O prince of Dodona, O you Pelasgic Zeus (🇦🇱), distant god who rules over Dodona, in this rough country of Selles... "
Source: Homer, Iliad, XVI,233/234.
Achilles did not say: Zeus the Greek, Zeus the Hellene or Zeus the Mycenaean...
Then why in the school books, one qualifies Zeus of Greek?
(just with this quotation, one realizes that modern historiography is not honest)
Karl O.Müller: The more intelligence will enter the history of Greece, the more attention will be paid to the Pelasgic element sacrificed until now.
Source : (Prolegomena-1825)
Epirus =
Historically, tribes like the Molossians or others that made up Epirus like the Kaons, Thesprotians, Paraue, Antintans and others, are historically linked to the Illyrian (🇦🇱) culture or part of it.
As Thucydides tells us about the events of the Peloponnesian War, which involved both actually Illyrians and Illyria itself, these tribes were commonly considered barbarian (non-Greek) tribes.
Thucydides: - "Among the barbarians there were about 1,000 Kaons who ruled without a king. In addition to the Kaons, the Thesprotians also participated and were also governed without a king. There were also the MOLOSSIANS, the Atintants and the Paraues.
Source : ( HISTORY OF THE WAR OF THE PELOPONNESE )
All these tribes, mentioned by the historian of Athenian origin Thucydides for their participation in the famous war of Peloponnese in the 5th century BC, are considered as barbarians, thus not Greek!
Source : ( Thucydides II, 80- IV, 126 )
The Kaons, the Thesprotians of Chamerie, the Arintans and the Parauets constitute the backbone of what was called Epirus.
Among them appear of course the Molossians where are the roots of the family of the mother of Alexander the Great!
And Thucydides is not the only source which defines the Epirotes like non-Greeks.
There are many others!
According to the encyclopedia Basic Antiquity, composed of 86 volumes... Pauly Wissowa the real "Encyclopedia Alterumswissenschaft" says that the Epirotes are of Illyrian origin 🇦🇱 and have strong ties to the population of southern Italy!
Whether or not the Epirotes are Illyrians is a discussion that, from an archaeological point of view, is resolved.
The Epirotes and the Illyrians have the same culture, if we consider the Iron Age, the use of tombs, the fortifications with several rows of walls, their material culture, the shape of the pots or the ornaments which are identical to those of Korça (present Albania) and the religion.
Not only ancient authors such as Thucydides, Strabo and others have called the Epirotic tribes barbarians (non-Greek), but later serious publications based on documents and archaeological findings point in the same direction.
The Molosses were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from which came the mother of Alexander the Great, Olympias, daughter of the king and sister of Alexander the Great.
The Molosses were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great, Olympias, daughter of the king, and the sister of another well known Illyrian prince, Alexander the Molossus.
Moreover the Greek armed forces committed an atrocious genocide on the Albanian civil population of Epirus (Çameria)!
Gjergj Kastriot Scanderbeg ( 31, October, 1460 ) :
Moreover, you scorn our people, claiming the
Albanians 🇦🇱 as nothing more than sheep, and
according to your customs think of us with only
insults. It would seem you know nothing of the
origins of our race. Our elders were the Epirotes
from whence Pyrrhus himself came forth, the
might of whom the Romans could barely
withstand. Those very Epirotes whom with their
weapons set forth and conquered Taranto and
much of Italy.
There exists no challenge to their might from the
likes of the Tarentines, a species of wet men
born only to catch fish.
And since you proclaim Albania 🇦🇱 a part of
Macedonia, you grant also then, our elders as
nobles who went as far as India under Alexander
the Great, defeating all the peoples that came
before them with great ease.
From those men descend these who you call
sheep. But the nature of things is not changed.
Why do your men run away in the faces of
sheep?"
Source : Book VI or Pope Pius the II's Comentaries.
Moreover, even the descendants of Skanderbeg from the Arbëresh community qualify as Albanians
Example : Shopie Castriota, loris Castriota etc ...
my father that is a history professor in lund university (Sweden)he liked this video, and said that he will use this video in school.
@Maks They had slavic names bc they were orthodox, if an albanian is called Mohammed bc he is a muslim does that mean he is arab? No
@Maks haha no her name was Voisava Tribalda from illyrian (pollog region) now Tetovo city
@Milan Mišić he is buried in albanian tower near hilandar gjon his father
because he died near there fighting turks
@Milan Mišić yes we know check stones found in albaniq carrying illyrian texts you just are jealous
@Maks Stanisa/ta nish/to hear🇦🇱
jelena/je len/is left🇦🇱
mara/mora/took🇦🇱
When it comes to military history, I always admired the underdog commander like Belisarius (lack of support from Justinian somewhat), Stephen the Great (against Matthias Corvinus and the Ottomans) and now I have another legendary commander to admire, Skanderbeg.
@Steven Choza I heard Justinian was worried his throne would be overthrown and move to Belisarius, so he gave Belisarius lack of support, however cant affording it whatsoever
@Steven Choza Justinian- Istinian -Upravda Serb
@Euron Buci 🤣🤣🤣 Belisarius is Velizar - great light or great tzar. Constantine was Serb (Tribal).
@Euron Buci Belisarius not Albanian but Armenian, and Illyrians not Albanians, but a different people. But also by then Illyrians were completely Roman and Latin speakers. Don't you know that? However Belisarius Armenian.
The Albanian prince that got kidnapped by the strongest empire of the time, became a hero to all western civilization, not only an Albanian hero!!!
LAVDI MBRETIT!!! 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱
@FREE GREECE yeah i see ur trying to claim that all the world is greek
@Dildo comics I have answered why he wasn't Albanian above. Check them. No need to add anything.
@FREE GREECE who is "we" only greeks and serbs say he was greek or serbian everyone else in the world says he is albanian and spoke albanian
@Dildo comics in ur today's narrative yes but we all know he wasn't.
@FREE GREECE he was albanian and so are arvanites and fustanella
Thank you for this video. I have visited British museum and there is no mention of Illyrians or Illyria or any of the legendary wars of Skanderbeg. Why is the world so wrong and always tries to work against countries such as Albania? We have never invaded anyone, we have only protected ourselves. History cannot be deleted, we are the sons of the Eagle and Skanderbeg.
Skanderbeg is so underrated one of the most underrated general of all time he deserves a movie to be made for him.
Even Mehmed the 2nd the ottoman sultan at the time when Skanderbeg died he said "Europe lost it's shield" and said that "i dont think another man like him will walk again on this earth"
Skanderbeg has been an inspiration through all my life! I learned from his story that when you use you all your mind, your heart and your body all to fight for a just cause, no matter the odds you will make win. Long life to the Albanian Nation - may all the Albanians be reminded where they come from and show the values of justice, strength and honor that their hero embodied!
Sen ma tmir skom ni moti
Well said my fellow Shqipe....respect
He will always be a hero for our country 🇦🇱👑
@dardania boi [wma] huh?
Jutjubas Tjubic hahahhaha in your dream kid
Gjergj Kastrioti (skenderbeu) was a great warrior and motivator for the Albanian people. And as an Albanian I thank you for your video about it. I hope some director like Oliver Stone or Ridley Scott can make a film about the history of Skënderbeu because it would be a great story to tell.
Besa is the Albanian Code of Honour. Janos Hunyadi was a man of Besa to Skanderbeg 🇦🇱❤🇭🇺
@Marijan Nikolic bro before u talk learn and read the part of albanian where skanderbeg ruled have to much christians I am a northern christian the history it’s 100% true but after his death most of albanians like 60% turn to islam to not pay tax and not give the children to ottomans
@𐔟𐔓𐔍𐔠𐔇𐔙𐔛𐔀𐔐 you should know that Srblji are Thracian-Ilirian tribes SRBLI= Trbli Srblian= Tribalian (in Greek, they can't say Srbli!) Vojislava Srbljanka - Tribalda. Jon Muzaka said in his memoirs that Skenderbeg was of Serbian nature. He can be your hero but don't lie about his origin. Half of "albanians" are of serbian origins but because of Turkish and Shqip pressure they were albanized. Arbanasi are from Arban inverted from Serbian word RABNO - Raban- Rabanasi! Latins and Greeks always invert serbian words because they can't pronounce it. So Rabanasi were Serbs in today's South montenegro (Malisori), in Kosovo and Metohija, north Albania (Dukađini, Keljmendi-Klimenti, Kastrati just lik Kastriot Kastratović, Kastriotić means the defenders of bordering castrums= castels, Beriša- Beliša their ancestry is from Mrnjavčević family, also some still have Serbian surnames - Veseli, Bogdani, Vojvoda, Vukoja... and many other tribes). Shqips came to Serbian kingdom from Caucasus with Georgios Maniakes in 1042/3. They are not autochthonous. Look at Loristan tradition and you will see where shqips are from.
@𐔟𐔓𐔍𐔠𐔇𐔙𐔛𐔀𐔐 Skenderbeg was a SERB! His name was Đurađ Branilović Kastriotić (kastriot means the defender of Castrum= utvrđenje- castle, it was a kind of title in Serbian kingdom). His father was Jovan, grandfather Pavle, great grandfather BRANILO! Branilo was Kefalia in Serbian kingdom, he got from Serbian king few districts to manage and to protect southern Serbian borders. Đurađ's uncle was Kostadin, his brothers Repoš and Staniša, sisters Vlajka, Mamica, Jelena, Mara, Angelina (they all had Serbian names). His mother was Vojislava (Mladenović) Branković also named Srbljanka (Tribalda) Srbli=Trbli Srblian = Tribalian (in Greek). Đurađ's father and brother are buried in Srebian monastery Hilandar. They were all speaking Serbian, their letters are signed in Serbian language and script. Jovan Mološanin (albanized - Jon Muzaka), said in his memoirs that Skenderbeg "is of Serbian nature".
Scanderbeg is underrated. If the Albanian resistance hadn't occurred, propably Italy and the Western Europe would be in Ottoman hands. A protector of Christianity and European culture. Give this man a Hollywood movie worth milions. Would be a box office succes ✌️
@innosanto they was stopped in Vienna which is Central Europe not in Balkans lol they continued to rule Balkans until 19th century and until the first Balkan war in 1912 -1913 get your facts right
@innosanto but maybe phisicaly Colin was better, acording to pictures of Alexander, heigh and face shape, and melancholic looking, that is more Colin than Leo
@ylber Maxhuni Colin played some scenes very good but other not so good, was unequal between scenes.
Still much better to have di caprio play Alex I think.
Austrians stopped Ottomans after battles and at the time of greatest Ottoman strength.
It was Austria-Hungary and Vienna
@JJLorx you can’t even spell English 😂what is carolic? New religion
Thank you for this video. A great figure in Europes history but not very well known apart from Albanians and scholars. The fact that armwrestling in Hungary and Romania literally is his name shows a lot. When the Pope declared his crusade chose Scanderbeg as the Commander of the Holy Army of Christ, forged his helmet in Milan with the inscription INPERATORE, ultimate commander', and the initials refering to * IN * PE * RA * TO * RE * BT *: Jhezus Nazarenus * Principi Emathie * Regi Albaniae * Terrori Osmanorum * Regi Epirotarum * Benedictat Te ( Jezus of Nazareth blesses the Prince of Emathie, King of Albanians, Terror of the Ottomans, King of Epirus ). If he was from a larger country, his figure would be glorified so much more.
Principe Emathie you know based on Albanian legends carried on for Generations Alexander the great was in fact born on Emathie city modern Mati region ...
Arbërori më i fortë dhe më i zgjuari.
Gjërgj Kastrioti. Nderi i gjith Shiptarëve.
Straight from here I checked out Langfocus' video on Albanian. That is one really complicated language possibly a descendant ancient Illyrian. I am glad it still exists and we have Skanderbeg to thank for it.
@Vangelis Skia So you ask, why do most Greeks look Asian? Is it because they came from Asia? The answer:
Greece and Turkey for the misery of the pollitic and wars result made an exchange of population based on religion not on race, the result were the greeks muslims moved to turkey and the orthodox turks of pontiac hellenic andatolian and real turcs moved to Greece!
@Smesni klipovi Dobrica Ćosić ( former president of the Serbian state, "father of the Serbian nation" ) wrote the following:
- "We lie to deceive ourselves, to exert another; We lie from compassion, lie in shame, to encourage ourselves, to hide our misery, lie about honesty.
We lie for freedom. Lie is a form of Serbian patriotism and confirmation of our innate intelligence.
We lie creatively, imaginatively, inventively.
" - "Lie is a Serbian state interest."
- "The lie is in the very essence of the Serbs".
- "In this country every lie in the end becomes true."
- "The Serbs have rescued themselves in history so many times with lies ...".
@Smesni klipovi What the Serbs don't understand is that in addition to being Muslims, the Albanians came from Latin/Catholic or Byzantine/Orthodox countries, the dominant culture in Orthodoxy is Greek and Slavic (as Turkish Arabic is for Islam). No wonder ...
@Smesni klipovi Gjergj = Albanian
Gjon = Albanian
Pal = Albanian
Etc...
Vaissa ( in Albanian ) = girl ...
(What is by adding the suffix -va, becomes vaissa-va, -Vojsava)
And why some of the brothers and sisters of Skanderbeg have Slavic and Greek names ?
=
What is the cultural name of the culture that dominates in Orthodoxy ?
The Slavic and the Greek, and you know it, so stop pretending to be ignorant ...
Example :
Vlad III Basarab, nicknamed "the Impaler" who has a Slavic first name, but they are not Slavic he is Romanian / Wallach ...
He has a Slavic name because the dominant culture in Orthodoxy is Slavic and Greek ...
(that's why we have found some Slavic or Greek first names ... think a little. )
As in Islam that it is the culture which dominates for the First Names (Arabic and Turkish ), it is simple ...
Imagine how beautiful a new 2020 SKANDERBEG Movie would be.
The House of Kastrioti (Albanian: Dera e Kastriotëve) was an Albanian noble family, active in the 14th and 15th centuries as the rulers of the Principality of Kastrioti. At the beginning of the 15th century, the family controlled a territory in the Mat and Dibra regions.
Exemple :
Great grandfather = Kostandin Kastrioti Mazreku (died ca. 1390) was an Albanian 🇦🇱 regional ruler in parts of the wider Mat and Dibër areas.
Grandfather = Pal Kastrioti was an Albanian 🇦🇱 medieval ruler in the latter part of the 14th century in northern Albania.
Source : Genealogy of the Kastrioti family, Du Cange (1680), Historia Byzantina duplici commentario
Jason Momoa as Scabderbeg
Most are drawn away by Vlads love for Pointy Sticks
While Other great Balkan Resistance Fighters like Skanderbeg & Michael the Brave are overlooked, Despite Skanderbeg being the most successful
@i don't need a name But Arminius lost to Romans Skanderbeg won all his battles
It would not be good because these movies that create ethnic and nationalist pride (whether for or against Turks, Albanians , Balkan Slavs) do not do well. They always appear like juvenile propaganda.
Love Albania from Bulgaria 🇧🇬♥️🇦🇱
@Gabriel V Skenderbeg was a SERB! His name was Đurađ Branilović Kastriotić (kastriot means the defender of Castrum= utvrđenje- castle, it was a kind of title in Serbian kingdom). His father was Jovan, grandfather Pavle, great grandfather BRANILO! Branilo was Kefalia in Serbian kingdom, he got from Serbian king few districts to manage and to protect southern Serbian borders. Đurađ's uncle was Kostadin, his brothers Repoš and Staniša, sisters Vlajka, Mamica, Jelena, Mara, Angelina (they all had Serbian names). His mother was Vojislava (Mladenović) Branković also named Srbljanka (Tribalda) Srbli=Trbli Srblian = Tribalian (in Greek). Đurađ's father and brother are buried in Srebian monastery Hilandar. They were all speaking Serbian, their letters are signed in Serbian language and script. Jovan Mološanin (albanized - Jon Muzaka), said in his memoirs that Skenderbeg "is of Serbian nature".
@𐔟𐔓𐔍𐔠𐔇𐔙𐔛𐔀𐔐 Skenderbeg was a SERB! His name was Đurađ Branilović Kastriotić (kastriot means the defender of Castrum= utvrđenje- castle, it was a kind of title in Serbian kingdom). His father was Jovan, grandfather Pavle, great grandfather BRANILO! Branilo was Kefalia in Serbian kingdom, he got from Serbian king few districts to manage and to protect southern Serbian borders. Đurađ's uncle was Kostadin, his brothers Repoš and Staniša, sisters Vlajka, Mamica, Jelena, Mara, Angelina (they all had Serbian names). His mother was Vojislava (Mladenović) Branković also named Srbljanka (Tribalda) Srbli=Trbli Srblian = Tribalian (in Greek). Đurađ's father and brother are buried in Srebian monastery Hilandar. They were all speaking Serbian, their letters are signed in Serbian language and script. Jovan Mološanin (albanized - Jon Muzaka), said in his memoirs that Skenderbeg "is of Serbian nature".
@𐔟𐔓𐔍𐔠𐔇𐔙𐔛𐔀𐔐 you should stop with that BS! Dobrica Ćosić NEVER wrote that. You should read what he really wrote.
The Second Battle of Kosovo (October 17-October 20, 1448) pitted a coalition of the Kingdom of Hungary and Wallachia led by John Hunyadi, against an Ottoman-led coalition under Sultan Murad II at Kosovo Polje.
The Albanian troops under Skanderbeg (🇦🇱 Albanian 🦅), wanted to help the Hungarians, but Đurađ Branković (Serbian 🇷🇸), then ALLIED to Sultan Murad II (Ottoman), prevented the Albanian troops under Skanderbeg from helping the Hungarians...
Source: Sedlar, Jean W. (1994). University of Washington Press. p. 393
As a result, Skanderbeg (🇦🇱) ravaged the estates of Branković (🇷🇸) as punishment for desertion of the Christian cause.
Consequence = defeat of the Hungarians ...
Source: Kenneth, Setton (1997) [1978] Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. p. 100.
What a hero! Greetings from bulgaria🇧🇬🇧🇬
The original name of the family of Kastrioti (Castriota) was Merzeku.
Kastriot, Kastrat in Has (🇦🇱), Kastrat in Dibra (🇦🇱) or the microtoponym "Kostur" near the village of Mazrek in the Has region.
Source :Bela 2019, p. 229.
In connection to the Kastrioti family name, it is very likely that the name of one the different Kastriot or Kastrat which were fortified settlements as their etymology shows (castrum = Latin) was as their family name.
The Kastrioti may have originated from this village (🇦🇱) or probably had acquired it as pronoia.
Source : Omari 2014, p. 44
Angelo used the cognomen Meserechus in reference to Skanderbeg and this link to the same name is produced in other sources and reproduced in later ones like Du Cange's Historia Byzantina (1680).
Source : Malaj 2013, p. 43
These links highlight that the Kastrioti used Mazreku as a name that highlighted their tribal affiliation (farefisni).
Source : Malaj 2013, p. 44
The name Mazrek(u), which means horse breeder in Albanian, is found throughout ALL Albanian regions 🇦🇱.
Source : Malaj 2013, p. 45.
The Kastrioti themselves where organised in a tribal structure and formed a fis or clan/tribe.
Source : Gall, Timothy L.; Hobby, Janeen (2009). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life: Europe. p. 27.
@Grey Wolf 😂😂😂😂
@Эхээж Баатур The Asen dynasty was a Vlach dynasty
@Grey Wolf turkish troll
The father of the Serbian nation Dobrica Cosic considers the ability to lie and lying to be the
highest moral virtue of the Serbian people and the foundation of
foundation of Serbian pride.
Here is a direct quote from Dobrica Cosic: "Lying is the
greatest virtue of the Serbian people".
Dobrica Cosic continues and says: "We lie to deceive ourselves...
To console others, we lie to fight fear, to encourage ourselves, to hide our misery...
Lying is a trait of our
patriotism and the proof of our innate intelligence.
We lie in a creative, imaginative and inventive way".
Source : Deobe
"It wasn't me that brought you the liberty. The liberty, I found it here, among you" Scanderbeg's great speech to albanian warriors at Kruja Castle!
Half Turk here, Skanderbeg was a fantastic general. I hadn't heard of him, but now I'll never forget him. Be proud Albanians, this guy is legendary.
@Jana Kolašinac 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@babis papoulidis Skenderbeg was a SERB! His name was Đurađ Branilović Kastriotić (kastriot means the defender of Castrum= utvrđenje- castle, it was a kind of title in Serbian kingdom). His father was Jovan, grandfather Pavle, great grandfather BRANILO! Branilo was Kefalia in Serbian kingdom, he got from Serbian king few districts to manage and to protect southern Serbian borders. Đurađ's uncle was Kostadin, his brothers Repoš and Staniša, sisters Vlajka, Mamica, Jelena, Mara, Angelina (they all had Serbian names). His mother was Vojislava (Mladenović) Branković also named Srbljanka (Tribalda) Srbli=Trbli Srblian = Tribalian (in Greek). Đurađ's father and brother are buried in Srebian monastery Hilandar. They were all speaking Serbian, their letters are signed in Serbian language and script. Jovan Mološanin (albanized - Jon Muzaka), said in his memoirs that Skenderbeg "is of Serbian nature".
@Kapel Baza Platon said Zeus is from Divos serbian Div and Divoš means Great, Huge, Mighty!
@Kosova is Albania wSkenderbeg was a SERB! His name was Đurađ Branilović Kastriotić (kastriot means the defender of Castrum= utvrđenje- castle, it was a kind of title in Serbian kingdom). His father was Jovan, grandfather Pavle, great grandfather BRANILO! Branilo was Kefalia in Serbian kingdom, he got from Serbian king few districts to manage and to protect southern Serbian borders. Đurađ's uncle was Kostadin, his brothers Repoš and Staniša, sisters Vlajka, Mamica, Jelena, Mara, Angelina (they all had Serbian names). His mother was Vojislava (Mladenović) Branković also named Srbljanka (Tribalda) Srbli=Trbli Srblian = Tribalian (in Greek). Đurađ's father and brother are buried in Srebian monastery Hilandar. They were all speaking Serbian, their letters are signed in Serbian language and script. Jovan Mološanin (albanized - Jon Muzaka), said in his memoirs that Skenderbeg "is of Serbian nature".
@Lonystal Jovan Kastriotić
One of the great Generals of the time hands down. Yet the most underrated. Thank you for this video. It did need it's own video for sure
Thanks for watching!
Mehmet the Second (The Conquerer) and Scanderbeg were very good friends during their military training period in Ottoman lands when they were young. They studied together and were given best-classes by the best teachers in Ottoman State. After the time Scanderbeg had changed his side from Ottoman to Albenia, Mehmet the Conquerer said "Next, I would have conquered Rome with Scanderbeg if he hadn't betrayed of us."
@Pressae Albanians = less brown turks, Bosnians = Less brown Albanians, Serbs = less brown Bosnians, Croats = less brown Serbs
@YouKnowMe14 Okey, than Albanians are serb, Serbs are Hungarian?
How can someone betray you when he was not an ottoman but a hostage that you forced to fight for you. He did not betray any ottoman, he paid back to ottomans what they did to his people and his land. End of story.
@trak83 eros Turks are basically mongols but Muslim pretty much
Gjergj Kastrioti may his glory always be remembered 😍🇦🇱📍
@Zeni Nimoni Quit on drogs man. Really bed for your health.
@𐔟𐔓𐔍𐔠𐔇𐔙𐔛𐔀𐔐 Show me one map of Albania or Epirus in medieval time and I will believe you.
The Second Battle of Kosovo (October 17-October 20, 1448) pitted a coalition of the Kingdom of Hungary and Wallachia led by John Hunyadi, against an Ottoman-led coalition under Sultan Murad II at Kosovo Polje.
The Albanian troops under Skanderbeg (🇦🇱 Albanian 🦅), wanted to help the Hungarians, but Đurađ Branković (Serbian 🇷🇸), then ALLIED to Sultan Murad II (Ottoman), prevented the Albanian troops under Skanderbeg from helping the Hungarians...
Source: Sedlar, Jean W. (1994). University of Washington Press. p. 393
As a result, Skanderbeg (🇦🇱) ravaged the estates of Branković (🇷🇸) as punishment for desertion of the Christian cause.
Consequence = defeat of the Hungarians ...
Source: Kenneth, Setton (1997) [1978] Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. p. 100.
the turks must have lost over 200,000 men to this guy. skanderbeg ROCKS. the sieges of vienna may have been pivotal battles but nothing was more pivotal for the history of western europe than this remarkable man.
@Zeni Nimoni Albania did not prevent us from going to Italy, Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror sent Gedik Ahmed Pasha and heavy armored cavalry to Otranto in a very short time. But just as the Turks were advancing in Italy, Sultan Mehmet died and Gedik Ahmed Pasha was recalled to Turkey. The Ottomans were an unstoppable force in the 15th and 16th centuries, in every way.
@Hussain_abbas I do not understand you. How's that a betrayal when he turned and fought for his own country. You understand that he was taken hostage by the ottomans?Thus,there was a risk of mutiny.
@Tolga İnan "We didnt do terrible things to Balkans as much as Europians but you love Europians."
Nothing against the modern Turkey and your nation, but the above quote is false.
@eg🏳️🌈⃠ Origin of the name "Shqiptar" and Epirus =
More concise on the issue, the only Nobel Prize in history 🎓 is none other than Theodor Mommsen 🥇 author of the cycle "Corpus of the inscriptions of antiquity" who says that: - "the brave Epirotes, the Albanians 🇦🇱 of antiquity supported with traditional loyalty the young and brave Pyrrhus or "the Eagle" as they called him" .
Let us point out in this regard that the Albanians call themselves "Shqiptar", i.e. "sons or children of the Eagle".
The soldiers of Pyrrhus (3rd century BC / Epirote King), called their King "the Eagle" and that the latter gave them back one day that they were his "children", so the Albanians are the children of the Eagle...
"Shqiptar = child of the Eagle .... " .
(Pyrrhus was the cousin of Alexander the Great, of the Molossian tribe and himself an ambitious conqueror, Pyrrhus is one of the most formidable opponents of the early days of ancient Rome).
Let's not forget that nes Epirotes were an Illyrian tribe (🇦🇱) and not Greeks!
There is also another interpretation of this ethnonym: the Eagle was one of the symbols of Zeus, Pelasgian god (🇦🇱) by excellence (source: cf Homer Iliad XVI,234).
The Albanians would thus be the "sons of Zeus" thus "sons of the Eagle".
Besides, these last ones (Albanians), whatever their religion, still call their God Zot (Zeus = Zojz = Zot), thus recalling the divine name of Zeus.
On the other hand the word Shqip, before becoming an etnhonym (Shqiptar), has always designated the "Albanian language" (language shqip = clear language).
Precision: Zeus was not a Greek god! (propaganda which it is spread)...
Zeus was a Pelasgian god (🇦🇱)
Example : Achilles : " Zeus, sovereign lord, O prince of Dodona, O you Pelasgic Zeus (🇦🇱), distant god who rules over Dodona, in this rough country of Selles... "
Source: Homer, Iliad, XVI,233/234.
Achilles did not say: Zeus the Greek, Zeus the Hellene or Zeus the Mycenaean...
Then why in the school books, one qualifies Zeus of Greek?
(just with this quotation, one realizes that modern historiography is not honest)
Karl O.Müller: The more intelligence will enter the history of Greece, the more attention will be paid to the Pelasgic element sacrificed until now.
Source : (Prolegomena-1825)
Epirus =
Historically, tribes like the Molossians or others that made up Epirus like the Kaons, Thesprotians, Paraue, Antintans and others, are historically linked to the Illyrian (🇦🇱) culture or part of it.
As Thucydides tells us about the events of the Peloponnesian War, which involved both actually Illyrians and Illyria itself, these tribes were commonly considered barbarian (non-Greek) tribes.
Thucydides: - "Among the barbarians there were about 1,000 Kaons who ruled without a king. In addition to the Kaons, the Thesprotians also participated and were also governed without a king. There were also the MOLOSSIANS, the Atintants and the Paraues.
Source : ( HISTORY OF THE WAR OF THE PELOPONNESE )
All these tribes, mentioned by the historian of Athenian origin Thucydides for their participation in the famous war of Peloponnese in the 5th century BC, are considered as barbarians, thus not Greek!
Source : ( Thucydides II, 80- IV, 126 )
The Kaons, the Thesprotians of Chamerie, the Arintans and the Parauets constitute the backbone of what was called Epirus.
Among them appear of course the Molossians where are the roots of the family of the mother of Alexander the Great!
And Thucydides is not the only source which defines the Epirotes like non-Greeks.
There are many others!
According to the encyclopedia Basic Antiquity, composed of 86 volumes... Pauly Wissowa the real "Encyclopedia Alterumswissenschaft" says that the Epirotes are of Illyrian origin 🇦🇱 and have strong ties to the population of southern Italy!
Whether or not the Epirotes are Illyrians is a discussion that, from an archaeological point of view, is resolved.
The Epirotes and the Illyrians have the same culture, if we consider the Iron Age, the use of tombs, the fortifications with several rows of walls, their material culture, the shape of the pots or the ornaments which are identical to those of Korça (present Albania) and the religion.
Not only ancient authors such as Thucydides, Strabo and others have called the Epirotic tribes barbarians (non-Greek), but later serious publications based on documents and archaeological findings point in the same direction.
The Molosses were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from which came the mother of Alexander the Great, Olympias, daughter of the king and sister of Alexander the Great.
The Molosses were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great, Olympias, daughter of the king, and the sister of another well known Illyrian prince, Alexander the Molossus.
Moreover the Greek armed forces committed an atrocious genocide on the Albanian civil population of Epirus (Çameria)!
@eg🏳️🌈⃠ Gjergj Kastriot Scanderbeg ( 31, October, 1460 ) :
Moreover, you scorn our people, claiming the
Albanians 🇦🇱 as nothing more than sheep, and
according to your customs think of us with only
insults. It would seem you know nothing of the
origins of our race. Our elders were the Epirotes
from whence Pyrrhus himself came forth, the
might of whom the Romans could barely
withstand. Those very Epirotes whom with their
weapons set forth and conquered Taranto and
much of Italy.
There exists no challenge to their might from the
likes of the Tarentines, a species of wet men
born only to catch fish.
And since you proclaim Albania 🇦🇱 a part of
Macedonia, you grant also then, our elders as
nobles who went as far as India under Alexander
the Great, defeating all the peoples that came
before them with great ease.
From those men descend these who you call
sheep. But the nature of things is not changed.
Why do your men run away in the faces of
sheep?"
Source : Book VI or Pope Pius the II's Comentaries.
As a Turk myself 🇹🇷 i do respect what he achieved not all Turks wants to admit it i know that amk so i’ll just say it for them. Skanderbeg Gjergj Kastrioti was a great warrior 👍🏻
@Jana Kolašinac so true my friend everyone believes you
@𐔟𐔓𐔍𐔠𐔇𐔙𐔛𐔀𐔐 Skenderbeg was a SERB! His name was Đurađ Branilović Kastriotić (kastriot means the defender of Castrum= utvrđenje- castle, it was a kind of title in Serbian kingdom). His father was Jovan, grandfather Pavle, great grandfather BRANILO! Branilo was Kefalia in Serbian kingdom, he got from Serbian king few districts to manage and to protect southern Serbian borders. Đurađ's uncle was Kostadin, his brothers Repoš and Staniša, sisters Vlajka, Mamica, Jelena, Mara, Angelina (they all had Serbian names). His mother was Vojislava (Mladenović) Branković also named Srbljanka (Tribalda) Srbli=Trbli Srblian = Tribalian (in Greek). Đurađ's father and brother are buried in Srebian monastery Hilandar. They were all speaking Serbian, their letters are signed in Serbian language and script. Jovan Mološanin (albanized - Jon Muzaka), said in his memoirs that Skenderbeg "is of Serbian nature".
Skenderbeg was a SERB! His name was Đurađ Branilović Kastriotić (kastriot means the defender of Castrum= utvrđenje- castle, it was a kind of title in Serbian kingdom). His father was Jovan, grandfather Pavle, great grandfather BRANILO! Branilo was Kefalia in Serbian kingdom, he got from Serbian king few districts to manage and to protect southern Serbian borders. Đurađ's uncle was Kostadin, his brothers Repoš and Staniša, sisters Vlajka, Mamica, Jelena, Mara, Angelina (they all had Serbian names). His mother was Vojislava (Mladenović) Branković also named Srbljanka (Tribalda) Srbli=Trbli Srblian = Tribalian (in Greek). Đurađ's father and brother are buried in Srebian monastery Hilandar. They were all speaking Serbian, their letters are signed in Serbian language and script. Jovan Mološanin (albanized - Jon Muzaka), said in his memoirs that Skenderbeg "is of Serbian nature".
He was, I'm slav macedonian and admire this man!... we balkanites should stop fighting each other and live as brothers for once, seriously I think we are somewhat connected, our cultures are so similar
"Dua vetem bashkim dhe unitetin e races shhqipetare perparimin e saj intelektual dhe ekonomik me qellim qe te behemi mjaft te fort per te kundershtuar ate qe synon te na perpije ne"
- Ismail Qemali 1844-1919
@xk2 listed shume i sakte bravo vlla rroft shqiperia ETNIKE 🇦🇱🇦🇱
天堂心臟 he was Albanian and no petty Serv can say otherwise
AABM cfar shikove e kuptove nga ky dokumentar?? qe ne te dobtit pra ne qe i rezistum 30 vjet perandoris me te fuqishme te kohes paskemi pas nevoj per ndihmen e vellezerve te tu, turqit, se ndryshe ne do na hanin fqinjet,,,,,nuk kam fjal per ju otomanet shqiptar,,,, i respektoj turqit se jan per tu respektu,,,per historin e tyre e jo per tonen qe na sollen vetem shkatrrime e probleme,,, qellimi final i fundit i turqis ishte dalja ne durres ne detin adriatik dhe beri cmos per kte plan nga nji an kurdiste marreveshje duke dhen toka shqiptare sikur ti kishte te vetat e duke perdor haxhi qamila dhe toptana nipt e te cileve jeni ju neootomanet e tanishem,,, hap syt dhe horizontin djal ,,, nuk jam aspak turkofob, dhe dua te kemi marredhenie te mira me turqin se kemi nevoj,, po jo te deformojm historin, te huajt jan njelloj po nuk je i zoti te shpija jote, kte te gjith shqiptart duhet ta fiksojn ne mendje,,,
Wow ,I didn’t even know a rebellion like this happened,thanks for the great historical content👍👍👍
I’m proud to be Albanian.Everyone loves Skenderbeg the Albanian national hero.
Skenderbeg was a SERB! His name was Đurađ Branilović Kastriotić (kastriot means the defender of Castrum= utvrđenje- castle, it was a kind of title in Serbian kingdom). His father was Jovan, grandfather Pavle, great grandfather BRANILO! Branilo was Kefalia in Serbian kingdom, he got from Serbian king few districts to manage and to protect southern Serbian borders. Đurađ's uncle was Kostadin, his brothers Repoš and Staniša, sisters Vlajka, Mamica, Jelena, Mara, Angelina (they all had Serbian names). His mother was Vojislava (Mladenović) Branković also named Srbljanka (Tribalda) Srbli=Trbli Srblian = Tribalian (in Greek). Đurađ's father and brother are buried in Srebian monastery Hilandar. They were all speaking Serbian, their letters are signed in Serbian language and script. Jovan Mološanin (albanized - Jon Muzaka), said in his memoirs that Skenderbeg "is of Serbian nature".
@Branislav Pavlovic skenderbeg is albanian
@꧁ Райан Milliyetçi ꧂ im telling you there isn't such thing as a "caucasian albanian" serbs came from there and carpates mountains even Homerus a Greek writer mentioned illyrians and a Egyptian writer which i don't remember his name talked about serbians that came in balkans in 7th century and that they were named "serbois" they came from caucasian and carpate mountains
@꧁ Райан Milliyetçi ꧂ There was also a state named iberia in the the caucasus but it doesn't mean spaniards and portugals are from caucasus as well, anyone who has just a bit knowledge knows that caucasus people and modern albanians and iberians have absolute no relations with them, Albanian's dna shows that they are proto-native people in the balkans and are culturally and in language term related to the illyrians, greeks and albanians are mostly related when it comes to DNA and it explains enough as are neighbors for millenniums. The first term "albanoi" was mentioned in 150 AD in today's albania as being a majority tribe making up most of today's albania and most historians undoubtedly theorize that these people have descanted into modern albanians, you coming up with the caucasus conclusion just shows your immaturity and lack of knowledge regarding this topic no wonder though since it's coming from a russian who yesterday probably just realized the location of "albania"
For those who wonder about the badass Goat Helmet that Skenderbeg wore.. It was a tribute to Alexander the Great and Pirro of Epirus, who also wore similar pagan symbolism, wich stems from the goat god Pan.
Skanderbeg was quite a brilliant commander if he managed to successfully hold out as long as he did. Good on him. And good job to whoever made this video possible.
Could you imagine what a man like Skanderbeg could have done with Venitian and Neapolitan support? Imagine if he had 50,000 troops and financial backing, he could have brought the Ottomans to their knees and halted their European expansion for half a century.
@ahmet turkmen Because we were outnumbered 1:8, equal numbers and proper equipment would’ve been a slaughterhouse.
Skanderbeg avoided open battles. He was limited to defending the Albanian highlands. It would be impossible for him to make it through Thrace, let alone Istanbul and Anatolia.
True he could con the world 🌎
Skenderbeg with that support could have probably reached the walls of Constantinople easily thus changing the entire Balkan history and Balkan as we know it today.
Thank you! My family is Albanian. I never knew the details of his victories.
If your family is albanian then what does that make you mate, Chinese ah 🤣😂
Christofer Milo, Albania has change a lot since 1994. You should visit again.
I did visit Albania in 1994: Tirane, Elbasan, Korce and Hociste (small villiage near Greek border.)
Then you Are albanian too...#shqipe
Christopher Milo you need to visit Albania do not forget your roots
A true Albanian icon, a defender of the faith and a great warrior/strategist 🇦🇱🇦🇱
@Wanka Wanka majority are irreligious, but the area I’m from his heavily Catholic ✝️
@Wanka Wanka I think you’d be surprised how many of us have.
Too bad the Albanians couldn't defend their faith too
BIG RESPECT FOR YOU. YOU REALIZED THIS AMAZING VIDEO...
Skanderbag was a pure warrior and a PATRIOT.
with his small number of warriors he did the best of the best.
@zenci karga you guys kidnapped him so... Who's in the wrong here? Funny how your logic works and doesn't make sense at all
Skenderbeg was a SERB! His name was Đurađ Branilović Kastriotić (kastriot means the defender of Castrum= utvrđenje- castle, it was a kind of title in Serbian kingdom). His father was Jovan, grandfather Pavle, great grandfather BRANILO! Branilo was Kefalia in Serbian kingdom, he got from Serbian king few districts to manage and to protect southern Serbian borders. Đurađ's uncle was Kostadin, his brothers Repoš and Staniša, sisters Vlajka, Mamica, Jelena, Mara, Angelina (they all had Serbian names). His mother was Vojislava (Mladenović) Branković also named Srbljanka (Tribalda) Srbli=Trbli Srblian = Tribalian (in Greek). Đurađ's father and brother are buried in Srebian monastery Hilandar. They were all speaking Serbian, their letters are signed in Serbian language and script. Jovan Mološanin (albanized - Jon Muzaka), said in his memoirs that Skenderbeg "is of Serbian nature".
@zenci karga funny to call someone a rebel for defending his ethnicity
funny. someone stole all tactics from the ottoman and betrayed the ottoman
Jutjubas Tjubic keep dreaming..........😆😆😆😆😆😆
He is one of greatest warriors of all time!
And we was Albanian!
Im proud for that and to be Albanian too!
much love and respect to my shqip 🇦🇱 from a Dominican living in the USA ;D
Respect
Salute
Tysm
RESPECT
25 years undefeated with 10,000 men army against a 10 times larger army of Ottoman is just mind blowing and the fact that he was not conquering but he was defending his land makes his story different and makes him the greatest general that ever lived
Armwrestling in Hungary is called Skander. It showes how much he was respected.
AH YEAH A COMMENT ABOVE SAID SO
@Arbnor Veliu E di, por nuk e dija qe edhe ne Hungary e Rumani kjo quhet Skander.
well Skanderbeg choose his best soldiers by arm wrestling
Is it so?
A godlike Albanian general! No man could stop this beast. The only thing that stopped this man was the limitations of being human.
Lukas ss skanderbeg was albanian blood 🩸🇦🇱
Lukas ss sure so many kastriotic walking arround in svrbia today hahaha and your history its full of gloryfication of him hahaha
SALI BERISHOVIÇ EDVIN RAMOVIÇ Gjergje is Illyrian not slavic
This is the ultimate example of quality over quantity
Bcs he was a supreme commander plus he didnt have slaves he treated his troops well he respected their religion and thats what made him great
no slave soldiers in Skanderbeg's army
Supreme commander
This is what makes you proud to be Albanian. Awesome story!
My grandfather told me some stories they used to tell in the village: the horse knew him so well that when skanderbeg died the horse died a few days too because he didn't have his master and when he dies the turks feared him so much that the Albanians just needed to put a look alike skanderbeg in a horse and they didn't have the courage to atk because they know they will fail but when they heard that skanderbeg is dead they atk and got the Albanians.
The Mighty Scenderbeg THE SHEILD OF EUROPE 🇦🇱❤️ rroft e çoft kujtimi yt përjetsisht o i madhi GJERGJ KASTRIOTI Skenderbeu
Respect to Skanderbeg. He was amazing general and soldier.
Brotha Box he is a Serb slayer
Brotha Box poor russian
Brotha Box yeah, you're definately dreaming. Wake up
Brotha Box dreaming is nice, isn't it?
There are only a few military geniuses in history, such as Alexander the Great, Khalid ibn Walid, and Skanderbeg is of the same calibre!
Alexander the Exaggerated
Mos Lexo mashtrim sllav , Leka madh ishte Matjan , pra Emathia pra Maria e madhja ndaj Zogu ja vendosi monedhes Lek , mendohet ose nga Mati ose Petrella (Pella) , edhe Gj.Kastrioti Nga Kruje Mat , pjesa sot rrafshnalta perendimore ka qene kenete (prandaj kishte malarje) pra eshte pak e quditshme por shqitari ka aftesi ushtarake , por Europa e braktisi
@Bartu 🇹🇷 i don't think so!
The Ottomans sent 25 armies against him!
@Bartu 🇹🇷 yes you're correct
@Bartu 🇹🇷 i thought you meant Osman, son of Ertugul
L’orgoglio Albanese 💪
Complimenti per questo bellissimo video👌
Great video as always! It's amazing the massive quantity of soldiers and armies that the Ottomans used in continuity during centuries.
I am so proud to be an Albanian! 💪🇦🇱❤️🙏
Skënderbeu
@Clyde ALB Well said, you described your people precisely!
A movie about Gjergj Kastrioti and a series about illyrians would be fire🔥🌠
What a badass! Brilliant commander. I visited Tirana and I love his statue in Skanderbeg Square--it's so cool. I really enjoyed Tirana and the Albanian people. They were very friendly and appreciative of visitors. I highly recommend a visit. I will be back one day! Beautiful women too ;)
The original name of the family of Kastrioti (Castriota) was Merzeku.
Kastriot, Kastrat in Has (🇦🇱), Kastrat in Dibra (🇦🇱) or the microtoponym "Kostur" near the village of Mazrek in the Has region.
Source :Bela 2019, p. 229.
In connection to the Kastrioti family name, it is very likely that the name of one the different Kastriot or Kastrat which were fortified settlements as their etymology shows (castrum = Latin) was as their family name.
The Kastrioti may have originated from this village (🇦🇱) or probably had acquired it as pronoia.
Source : Omari 2014, p. 44
Angelo used the cognomen Meserechus in reference to Skanderbeg and this link to the same name is produced in other sources and reproduced in later ones like Du Cange's Historia Byzantina (1680).
Source : Malaj 2013, p. 43
These links highlight that the Kastrioti used Mazreku as a name that highlighted their tribal affiliation (farefisni).
Source : Malaj 2013, p. 44
The name Mazrek(u), which means horse breeder in Albanian, is found throughout ALL Albanian regions 🇦🇱.
Source : Malaj 2013, p. 45.
The Kastrioti themselves where organised in a tribal structure and formed a fis or clan/tribe.
Source : Gall, Timothy L.; Hobby, Janeen (2009). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life: Europe. p. 27.
Gjergj Kastriot Scanderbeg ( 31, October, 1460 ) :
Moreover, you scorn our people, claiming the
Albanians 🇦🇱 as nothing more than sheep, and
according to your customs think of us with only
insults. It would seem you know nothing of the
origins of our race. Our elders were the Epirotes
from whence Pyrrhus himself came forth, the
might of whom the Romans could barely
withstand. Those very Epirotes whom with their
weapons set forth and conquered Taranto and
much of Italy.
There exists no challenge to their might from the
likes of the Tarentines, a species of wet men
born only to catch fish.
And since you proclaim Albania 🇦🇱 a part of
Macedonia, you grant also then, our elders as
nobles who went as far as India under Alexander
the Great, defeating all the peoples that came
before them with great ease.
From those men descend these who you call
sheep. But the nature of things is not changed.
Why do your men run away in the faces of
sheep?"
Source : Book VI or Pope Pius the II's Comentaries.
Origin of the name "Shqiptar" and Epirus =
More concise on the issue, the only Nobel Prize in history 🎓 is none other than Theodor Mommsen 🥇 author of the cycle "Corpus of the inscriptions of antiquity" who says that: - "the brave Epirotes, the Albanians 🇦🇱 of antiquity supported with traditional loyalty the young and brave Pyrrhus or "the Eagle" as they called him" .
Let us point out in this regard that the Albanians call themselves "Shqiptar", i.e. "sons or children of the Eagle".
The soldiers of Pyrrhus (3rd century BC / Epirote King), called their King "the Eagle" and that the latter gave them back one day that they were his "children", so the Albanians are the children of the Eagle...
"Shqiptar = child of the Eagle .... " .
(Pyrrhus was the cousin of Alexander the Great, of the Molossian tribe and himself an ambitious conqueror, Pyrrhus is one of the most formidable opponents of the early days of ancient Rome).
Let's not forget that nes Epirotes were an Illyrian tribe (🇦🇱) and not Greeks!
There is also another interpretation of this ethnonym: the Eagle was one of the symbols of Zeus, Pelasgian god (🇦🇱) by excellence (source: cf Homer Iliad XVI,234).
The Albanians would thus be the "sons of Zeus" thus "sons of the Eagle".
Besides, these last ones (Albanians), whatever their religion, still call their God Zot (Zeus = Zojz = Zot), thus recalling the divine name of Zeus.
On the other hand the word Shqip, before becoming an etnhonym (Shqiptar), has always designated the "Albanian language" (language shqip = clear language).
Precision: Zeus was not a Greek god! (propaganda which it is spread)...
Zeus was a Pelasgian god (🇦🇱)
Example : Achilles : " Zeus, sovereign lord, O prince of Dodona, O you Pelasgic Zeus (🇦🇱), distant god who rules over Dodona, in this rough country of Selles... "
Source: Homer, Iliad, XVI,233/234.
Achilles did not say: Zeus the Greek, Zeus the Hellene or Zeus the Mycenaean...
Then why in the school books, one qualifies Zeus of Greek?
(just with this quotation, one realizes that modern historiography is not honest)
Karl O.Müller: The more intelligence will enter the history of Greece, the more attention will be paid to the Pelasgic element sacrificed until now.
Source : (Prolegomena-1825)
Epirus =
Historically, tribes like the Molossians or others that made up Epirus like the Kaons, Thesprotians, Paraue, Antintans and others, are historically linked to the Illyrian (🇦🇱) culture or part of it.
As Thucydides tells us about the events of the Peloponnesian War, which involved both actually Illyrians and Illyria itself, these tribes were commonly considered barbarian (non-Greek) tribes.
Thucydides: - "Among the barbarians there were about 1,000 Kaons who ruled without a king. In addition to the Kaons, the Thesprotians also participated and were also governed without a king. There were also the MOLOSSIANS, the Atintants and the Paraues.
Source : ( HISTORY OF THE WAR OF THE PELOPONNESE )
All these tribes, mentioned by the historian of Athenian origin Thucydides for their participation in the famous war of Peloponnese in the 5th century BC, are considered as barbarians, thus not Greek!
Source : ( Thucydides II, 80- IV, 126 )
The Kaons, the Thesprotians of Chamerie, the Arintans and the Parauets constitute the backbone of what was called Epirus.
Among them appear of course the Molossians where are the roots of the family of the mother of Alexander the Great!
And Thucydides is not the only source which defines the Epirotes like non-Greeks.
There are many others!
According to the encyclopedia Basic Antiquity, composed of 86 volumes... Pauly Wissowa the real "Encyclopedia Alterumswissenschaft" says that the Epirotes are of Illyrian origin 🇦🇱 and have strong ties to the population of southern Italy!
Whether or not the Epirotes are Illyrians is a discussion that, from an archaeological point of view, is resolved.
The Epirotes and the Illyrians have the same culture, if we consider the Iron Age, the use of tombs, the fortifications with several rows of walls, their material culture, the shape of the pots or the ornaments which are identical to those of Korça (present Albania) and the religion.
Not only ancient authors such as Thucydides, Strabo and others have called the Epirotic tribes barbarians (non-Greek), but later serious publications based on documents and archaeological findings point in the same direction.
The Molosses were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from which came the mother of Alexander the Great, Olympias, daughter of the king and sister of Alexander the Great.
The Molosses were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great, Olympias, daughter of the king, and the sister of another well known Illyrian prince, Alexander the Molossus.
Moreover the Greek armed forces committed an atrocious genocide on the Albanian civil population of Epirus (Çameria)!
Ethnicity = Skanderbeg himself defined himself as Albanian ( Ethnicity ) (handwritten letter).
Ex :
" Ioannes Antonius princeps Taranti Georgio Albano salutem "
= Georgio the Albanian 🇦🇱 salutes the prince Giovanni of Taranto .
Source : (Pope Pius II , Commentarii)
The same prince Giovanni Antonio described Skanderbeg as "Georgio Albano"..
Geography = Skanderbeg always signed himself as "Dominus Albaniae" (Albanian: Zot i Arbërisë, English: Lord of Albania🇦🇱)
Source : Frazee, Charles A. (22 June 2006). Catholics and Sultans: The Church and the Ottoman Empire 1453-1923. Cambridge University Press. p. 33.
The House of Kastrioti (Albanian: Dera e Kastriotëve) was an Albanian noble family, active in the 14th and 15th centuries as the rulers of the Principality of Kastrioti. At the beginning of the 15th century, the family controlled a territory in the Mat and Dibra regions.
Exemple :
Great grandfather = Kostandin Kastrioti Mazreku (died ca. 1390) was an Albanian 🇦🇱 regional ruler in parts of the wider Mat and Dibër areas.
Grandfather = Pal Kastrioti was an Albanian 🇦🇱 medieval ruler in the latter part of the 14th century in northern Albania.
Source : Genealogy of the Kastrioti family, Du Cange (1680), Historia Byzantina duplici commentario
Even the Serbs of the time considered Skanderbeg as Albanian, his father (Gjon) was buried in an Orthodox monastery, the Serbs named the tower where he is buried "Albanian tower 🇦🇱"...
source : ( Himelstir. p. 45 )
Moreover, even the descendants of Skanderbeg from the Arbëresh community qualify as Albanians 🇦🇱 and not as Serbs ...
Example : Shopie Castriota, loris Castriota etc ...
Alessandro Cutolo ( Italian historian ) :
" Gjon ( father of Skanderbeg ) married Princess Vojsava, the daughter of another excellent Albanian🇦🇱 leader, the Lord of Polog " .
Source : in is work "Skanderbeg" , p.20, published in Milan (Italy) in 1940.
His mother ( Skanderbeg )came from the Muzaka family (Albanian) and not from the Brankovic family ...
Father was Gjon Kastrioti, son of Pal Kastrioti. Mother was Voisava from the Muzaka-Family (as stated in the memoires of Gjon Muzaka written sometime before 1510)
Documents from that time only state that she was an albanian.
There are no serbian documents that state she was serbian. In his memoires Gjon Muzaka (before 1510) wrote that she is a muzaka.
We only have two sources from that era that give us a hint of her origin. One is geographically and the other is ethnically .
Geographic source:
barleti wrote that it was from polog. Member of a noble house and tribal leader.
Why tribal and not Serbian?
First of all, the triballi were an ancient Thraco-Illyrian ( Albanian ) tribe.
The same name was again used in the Middle Ages / Byzantine era for the inhabitants of the ancient tribal area.
All the people who lived in this area were called triballi (Albanians, Bulgarians and Serbs).
(And let's not forget that the Tribalians were Slavised for the majority ...
But remained Thraco-Illyrian/Albanian in their blood ...)
Today, the majority of Albanians in Macedonia live in the Polog region (the eastern part of Macedonia).
Exemple :
Appianus Alexandrinus (is a Greek historien of the Roman period) who qualified the Triballians of "Illyrian origin".
Source : "historia Romana".
Stephanus of Byzantium ( Great lexicographer of Constantinople, lived in the 6 th century), was written in the year 528-545, declares that the "Triballians are Illyrian.
Source : From Urbibus and Populis.
Other authors such as Strabo, Pliny, Ptolemy and Dion Cassius, state that the Triballians are of Thraco-Illyrian origin ( Pelasgians/Albanian )
Ethnical source:
Gjon Muzaka wrote in his memoires that she was a muzaka.
I think with the latter source we should conclude this whole discussion.
As it is a very close source - chronological and physical. The person in this case Gjon Muzaka knew Voisava personally and he fought besides Skanderbeg and skanderbegs son.
So he wouldnt dare to write something he would later regret right ? He wrote those memoires sometime before 1510 so basically before the book of barleti was printed.
Really appreciate your thoughts for my country
come but only if you are white
There's a Skanderbeg street in every town in Albania 🇦🇱 Nënë Tereza, too. 🦇 A contemporary of Vlad Țepeș... ☆ Berat is a beautiful town, in a river valley, with a castle.
Berat is 2500 years before jesus christ old and no city in europe can say same :-)
The most magnificent great Albanian hero ever Skanderbeg! I am astonished from this hidden history.
@Milan Mišić E-V13 (Haplogroup E) is one of the Haplogroups that were common among Illyrians, yes.
SOURCE : ( The genomic history of Southeast Europe )
E-V13 as Haplogroup Y originated from the so-called Neolithic settlers, who entered the Balkans from Anatolia about 8500 years ago. These Neolithic settlers were the founders of the Minoan civilization, the first European civilization in history. They also played a major role in the ethnogenesis of the Mycenaeans, Greeks, Thracians, Dacians and Illyrians that followed.
E-V13 is one of the haplogroups that were common among the Illyrians, yes.
Thus, although E-V13 is not exclusively "Illyrian" but rather paleobalkanic in general, it was one of the main Illyrian y-DNA haplogroups. In addition to E-V13, the Illyrians probably possessed the haplogroup R1b, originating from the Indo-European which gave them their languages, to the Thracians and Greeks, and J2b, another Mediterranean Neolithic haplogroup common to today's Albanians, Greeks and Italians, among others.
It is also worth mentioning that the three haplogroups so typical for today's Albanians have also been found in Neolithic and Bronze Age remains on the eastern coast of the Adriatic (ancient Illyria) !
: E1b1 (Haplogroup E) - R1b - J2b2 .
- source : ( The genomic history of Southeast Europe )
@Milan Mišić Most of them (Historians, linguists etc...) say that the Albanians are indeed the descendants of the Illyrians (their language, their culture etc...).
Indeed the Albanian language (only language) is classified in the group "Paleo-balkanic (Thraco-Illyrian)".
Demonstration of the Albanian / Thraco-Illlyrian language :
Illyria (illyr) / I lirë (Free, independent) in Albanian.
The Greeks considered the Illyrians as a "Free", "Independent" people ... This name explains the meaning of this ethnonym used by the Greeks.
Dardania (Illyrian Tribe) / Dardhë (pear in Albanian) .
Since the highest antiquity, this region was known for its orchards where pear trees were very numerous ... This is why it was called "Pear country" ...
Dalmates / Delmat ("sheep" in Albanian) .
Former region of Illyria, on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. This name derives from the Albanian "delmë, delmat" which means "sheep" in Albanian.
Thrace / Trakët, Trashët, I Trashë (Big or corpulent in Albanian).
According to Herodotus (V, 3): "the Thracians are, after the Indians, the most numerous people in the world ... "
And many more...
Many words can be explained thanks to the Albanian language...
I will deepen the link between the Illyrians and the Albanians (Language)
Exemple :
📜 Illyriens : Zi
🇦🇱 Albanais : Zi
📜 : Maraz
🇦🇱 : Maraz
📜 : Ziapk
🇦🇱 : Zi ape
📜 : Sifai
🇦🇱 : Si faj
📜: Ar
🇦🇱: Ar
📜 : Tafar
🇦🇱 : Taft
📜 : Zith
🇦🇱 : Zi,Th
📜 : Feisva Feis
🇦🇱 : Fiseve a Fis
📜 : Orai
🇦🇱 : O ar ai
📜 : Epiezi
🇦🇱 : Epe e zi
📜 : Aifisi
🇦🇱 : Ai fisi
📜 : Lot
🇦🇱 : Lot
📜 : Tikh
🇦🇱 : Thik
📜 : Eape
🇦🇱 : E ape
📜 : Hoke
🇦🇱 : Hoqe
📜 : As
🇦🇱 : As
📜 : Zerh
🇦🇱 : Zerin
📜 : Bardus
🇦🇱 : Bardhi
📜 : Binda
🇦🇱 : Bind
📜 : Prenta
🇦🇱 : Brenda
📜 : Tremba
🇦🇱 : Tremb , Tremba
Etc ... !
@Milan Mišić He knows even less that the world's greatest scientific authorities have pronounced themselves on the autochtonous and Illyrian origin of the Albanians.
I would quote among others the :
- 🇩🇪 Gottfried Leibniz
- 🇸🇪 Johann Thunmann
- 🇩🇪 Ritter von Xilander
- 🇩🇪 Franz Bopp
- 🇩🇪 Jakob Fallmerayer
- 🇩🇪 J, von Hahn
- 🇩🇪 Paul Kretschner
- 🇦🇹 Norbert Jokl
- 🇦🇹Maximilian Lambertz
- 🇬🇧 William Leak
- 🇬🇧 Stewart Mann
- 🇬🇧 Dane Holger Pedersen
- 🇮🇹 Angelo Masci
- 🇦🇹 G. Mayer, H. Olberg
- 🇦🇹 R. Solta
- 🇨🇵 A. Ducellier
- 🇭🇷 Milan Šufflay
- 🇭🇷 Radoslav. Katicic
Etc ...
The Albanian tribal society has preserved the ancient Illyrian social structure based on tribal units.
Source :
- 1 Michael L. Galaty (2002). "Modeling the Formation and Evolution of an Illyrian Tribal System: Ethnographic and Archaeological Analogs". In William A. Parkinson (ed.). The Archaeology of Tribal Societies .
- 2 Villar, Francisco (1996). Los indoeuropeos y los orígenes de Europa
There is no evidence of any major migration into Albanian territory since the records of Illyrian occupation .
Source : Mallory, J.P.; Adams, D.Q., eds. (1997). Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. Taylor & Francis. pp. 9, 11.
Because descent from Illyrians makes "geographical sense" and there is no linguistic or historical evidence proving a replacement, then the burden of proof lies on the side of those who would deny a connection of Albanian with Illyrian
Source : Katicic, Radoslav.
1976. The Ancient Languages of the Balkans. Berlin: Mouton. Page 188.
The national name Albania is derived from " Albanoi " or " Albani " an Illyrian tribe mentioned by Ptolemy about 150 AD.
Source :
- 1 Giacalone Ramat, Anna; Ramat, Paolo, eds. (1998). The Indo-European languages. Rootledge. p. 481.
- 2 Vasiliev, Alexander A. (1958) [1952]. History of the Byzantine Empire, 324-1453. 2 (2nd ed.). University of Wisconsin Press. p. 613.
- 3 Jelavich, Barbara (1983). History of the Balkans: Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Cambridge University Press. p. 25
Etc !
@Milan Mišić Dobrica Ćosić ( former president of the Serbian state, "father of the Serbian nation" ) wrote the following:
- "We lie to deceive ourselves, to exert another; We lie from compassion, lie in shame, to encourage ourselves, to hide our misery, lie about honesty.
We lie for freedom. Lie is a form of Serbian patriotism and confirmation of our innate intelligence.
We lie creatively, imaginatively, inventively.
" - "Lie is a Serbian state interest."
- "The lie is in the very essence of the Serbs".
- "In this country every lie in the end becomes true."
- "The Serbs have rescued themselves in history so many times with lies ...".
The national hero of Albania
Skanderbeg ......
@Goran Hajder Origin of the name "Shqiptar" and Epirus =
More concise on the issue, the only Nobel Prize in history 🎓 is none other than Theodor Mommsen 🥇 author of the cycle "Corpus of the inscriptions of antiquity" who says that: - "the brave Epirotes, the Albanians 🇦🇱 of antiquity supported with traditional loyalty the young and brave Pyrrhus or "the Eagle" as they called him" .
Let us point out in this regard that the Albanians call themselves "Shqiptar", i.e. "sons or children of the Eagle".
The soldiers of Pyrrhus (3rd century BC / Epirote King), called their King "the Eagle" and that the latter gave them back one day that they were his "children", so the Albanians are the children of the Eagle...
"Shqiptar = child of the Eagle .... " .
(Pyrrhus was the cousin of Alexander the Great, of the Molossian tribe and himself an ambitious conqueror, Pyrrhus is one of the most formidable opponents of the early days of ancient Rome).
Let's not forget that nes Epirotes were an Illyrian tribe (🇦🇱) and not Greeks!
There is also another interpretation of this ethnonym: the Eagle was one of the symbols of Zeus, Pelasgian god (🇦🇱) by excellence (source: cf Homer Iliad XVI,234).
The Albanians would thus be the "sons of Zeus" thus "sons of the Eagle".
Besides, these last ones (Albanians), whatever their religion, still call their God Zot (Zeus = Zojz = Zot), thus recalling the divine name of Zeus.
On the other hand the word Shqip, before becoming an etnhonym (Shqiptar), has always designated the "Albanian language" (language shqip = clear language).
Precision: Zeus was not a Greek god! (propaganda which it is spread)...
Zeus was a Pelasgian god (🇦🇱)
Example : Achilles : " Zeus, sovereign lord, O prince of Dodona, O you Pelasgic Zeus (🇦🇱), distant god who rules over Dodona, in this rough country of Selles... "
Source: Homer, Iliad, XVI,233/234.
Achilles did not say: Zeus the Greek, Zeus the Hellene or Zeus the Mycenaean...
Then why in the school books, one qualifies Zeus of Greek?
(just with this quotation, one realizes that modern historiography is not honest)
Karl O.Müller: The more intelligence will enter the history of Greece, the more attention will be paid to the Pelasgic element sacrificed until now.
Source : (Prolegomena-1825)
Epirus =
Historically, tribes like the Molossians or others that made up Epirus like the Kaons, Thesprotians, Paraue, Antintans and others, are historically linked to the Illyrian (🇦🇱) culture or part of it.
As Thucydides tells us about the events of the Peloponnesian War, which involved both actually Illyrians and Illyria itself, these tribes were commonly considered barbarian (non-Greek) tribes.
Thucydides: - "Among the barbarians there were about 1,000 Kaons who ruled without a king. In addition to the Kaons, the Thesprotians also participated and were also governed without a king. There were also the MOLOSSIANS, the Atintants and the Paraues.
Source : ( HISTORY OF THE WAR OF THE PELOPONNESE )
All these tribes, mentioned by the historian of Athenian origin Thucydides for their participation in the famous war of Peloponnese in the 5th century BC, are considered as barbarians, thus not Greek!
Source : ( Thucydides II, 80- IV, 126 )
The Kaons, the Thesprotians of Chamerie, the Arintans and the Parauets constitute the backbone of what was called Epirus.
Among them appear of course the Molossians where are the roots of the family of the mother of Alexander the Great!
And Thucydides is not the only source which defines the Epirotes like non-Greeks.
There are many others!
According to the encyclopedia Basic Antiquity, composed of 86 volumes... Pauly Wissowa the real "Encyclopedia Alterumswissenschaft" says that the Epirotes are of Illyrian origin 🇦🇱 and have strong ties to the population of southern Italy!
Whether or not the Epirotes are Illyrians is a discussion that, from an archaeological point of view, is resolved.
The Epirotes and the Illyrians have the same culture, if we consider the Iron Age, the use of tombs, the fortifications with several rows of walls, their material culture, the shape of the pots or the ornaments which are identical to those of Korça (present Albania) and the religion.
Not only ancient authors such as Thucydides, Strabo and others have called the Epirotic tribes barbarians (non-Greek), but later serious publications based on documents and archaeological findings point in the same direction.
The Molosses were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from which came the mother of Alexander the Great, Olympias, daughter of the king and sister of Alexander the Great.
The Molosses were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great, Olympias, daughter of the king, and the sister of another well known Illyrian prince, Alexander the Molossus.
Moreover the Greek armed forces committed an atrocious genocide on the Albanian civil population of Epirus (Çameria)!
@Goran Hajder Gjergj Kastriot Scanderbeg ( 31, October, 1460 ) :
Moreover, you scorn our people, claiming the
Albanians 🇦🇱 as nothing more than sheep, and
according to your customs think of us with only
insults. It would seem you know nothing of the
origins of our race. Our elders were the Epirotes
from whence Pyrrhus himself came forth, the
might of whom the Romans could barely
withstand. Those very Epirotes whom with their
weapons set forth and conquered Taranto and
much of Italy.
There exists no challenge to their might from the
likes of the Tarentines, a species of wet men
born only to catch fish.
And since you proclaim Albania 🇦🇱 a part of
Macedonia, you grant also then, our elders as
nobles who went as far as India under Alexander
the Great, defeating all the peoples that came
before them with great ease.
From those men descend these who you call
sheep. But the nature of things is not changed.
Why do your men run away in the faces of
sheep?"
Source : Book VI or Pope Pius the II's Comentaries.
@Gogo Belopavelic The Second Battle of Kosovo (October 17-October 20, 1448) pitted a coalition of the Kingdom of Hungary and Wallachia led by John Hunyadi, against an Ottoman-led coalition under Sultan Murad II at Kosovo Polje.
The Albanian troops under Skanderbeg (🇦🇱 Albanian 🦅), wanted to help the Hungarians, but Đurađ Branković (Serbian 🇷🇸), then ALLIED to Sultan Murad II (Ottoman), prevented the Albanian troops under Skanderbeg from helping the Hungarians...
Source: Sedlar, Jean W. (1994). University of Washington Press. p. 393
As a result, Skanderbeg (🇦🇱) ravaged the estates of Branković (🇷🇸) as punishment for desertion of the Christian cause.
Consequence = defeat of the Hungarians ...
Source: Kenneth, Setton (1997) [1978] Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. p. 100.
@Goran Hajder Albania existed = Ethnicity = Skanderbeg himself defined himself as Albanian ( Ethnicity ) (handwritten letter).
Ex :
" Ioannes Antonius princeps Taranti Georgio Albano salutem "
= Georgio the Albanian 🇦🇱 salutes the prince Giovanni of Taranto .
Source : (Pope Pius II , Commentarii)
The same prince Giovanni Antonio described Skanderbeg as "Georgio Albano"..
Geography = Skanderbeg always signed himself as "Dominus Albaniae" (Albanian: Zot i Arbërisë, English: Lord of Albania🇦🇱)
Source : Frazee, Charles A. (22 June 2006). Catholics and Sultans: The Church and the Ottoman Empire 1453-1923. Cambridge University Press. p. 33.
The House of Kastrioti (Albanian: Dera e Kastriotëve) was an Albanian noble family, active in the 14th and 15th centuries as the rulers of the Principality of Kastrioti. At the beginning of the 15th century, the family controlled a territory in the Mat and Dibra regions.
Exemple :
Great grandfather = Kostandin Kastrioti Mazreku (died ca. 1390) was an Albanian 🇦🇱 regional ruler in parts of the wider Mat and Dibër areas.
Grandfather = Pal Kastrioti was an Albanian 🇦🇱 medieval ruler in the latter part of the 14th century in northern Albania.
Source : Genealogy of the Kastrioti family, Du Cange (1680), Historia Byzantina duplici commentario
Even the Serbs of the time considered Skanderbeg as Albanian, his father (Gjon) was buried in an Orthodox monastery, the Serbs named the tower where he is buried "Albanian tower🇦🇱"...
Source : ( Himelstir. p. 45 )
Proud for him, this is the biggest man in Albania history. Im proud for my Country.
@HELLENIC NATIONALISM 😂😂😂😂
@HELLENIC NATIONALISM 😂😂😂😂
@okokok Almost 100% of your linguistic composition is borrowed
I've been following your channel for more than a year now. I loved the Mongol and the Ottoman series. As an avid viewer, I would like to request a dedicated video about Vlad the Impaler and his connection to Sultan Mehmet. Love from India 🇮🇳❤️
Albanian warrior!! My father who is a proffessor in history really liked this presentation! Good job keep it coming.
He was not Albanian
Father Jovan (Serb, ortodox priest), mother Vojislava Branković ( famous Serb family). And someone call him Albanian, what a joke...
In Serbia, they have original document about his birth and origin (from monastery where his father was a priest), it's easy to check it...
Or much easer is to just look at names of his siblings, pure authentic Serbian's names, of all seven...
However, Skenderberg did married Albanian woman and lived mostly among Albanians...
His father got a parochy (parish) as priest in a place where majority were Albanians...
Albanians can try to falsify history, but they can't change the facts...
@Kings and Generals i was confused that you said respect from me your mother
His figure was used all around Europe to instigate a movement against the ottoman empire, especially in western Europe which the fear of the ottomans was not that great at the time yet. To that purpose many painters painted his portrait and he was mentioned in many works of literature in addition to having entire books written about him. To this day he probably has the most statues in different countries in Europe than any historical figure.
Imagine he had so little space and low number of soldiers and the only one that could take him down was God ! Amaizing and brave warrior ! We are talking about him 600 years after ,just imagine what sign he left in history... 🇦🇱 Strong and Pure illyrian Blood !!!
The father of the Serbian nation Dobrica Cosic considers the ability to lie and lying to be the
highest moral virtue of the Serbian people and the foundation of
foundation of Serbian pride.
Here is a direct quote from Dobrica Cosic: "Lying is the
greatest virtue of the Serbian people".
Dobrica Cosic continues and says: "We lie to deceive ourselves...
To console others, we lie to fight fear, to encourage ourselves, to hide our misery...
Lying is a trait of our
patriotism and the proof of our innate intelligence.
We lie in a creative, imaginative and inventive way".
Source : Deobe
Moreover, even the descendants of Skanderbeg from the Arbëresh community qualify as Albanians and not as Serbs ...
Example : Shopie Castriota, loris Castriota etc ...
Alessandro Cutolo ( Italian historian ) :
" Gjon ( father of Skanderbeg ) married Princess Vojsava, the daughter of another excellent Albanian🇦🇱 leader, the Lord of Polog " .
Source : in is work "Skanderbeg" , p.20, published in Milan (Italy) in 1940.
His mother ( Skanderbeg )came from the Muzaka family (Albanian) and not from the Brankovic family ...
Father was Gjon Kastrioti, son of Pal Kastrioti. Mother was Voisava from the Muzaka-Family (as stated in the memoires of Gjon Muzaka written sometime before 1510)
Documents from that time only state that she was an albanian.
There are no serbian documents that state she was serbian. In his memoires Gjon Muzaka (before 1510) wrote that she is a muzaka.
We only have two sources from that era that give us a hint of her origin. One is geographically and the other is ethnically .
Geographic source:
barleti wrote that it was from polog. Member of a noble house and tribal leader.
Why tribal and not Serbian?
First of all, the triballi were an ancient Thraco-Illyrian ( Albanian ) tribe.
The same name was again used in the Middle Ages / Byzantine era for the inhabitants of the ancient tribal area.
All the people who lived in this area were called triballi (Albanians, Bulgarians and Serbs).
(And let's not forget that the Tribalians were Slavised for the majority ...
But remained Thraco-Illyrian/Albanian in their blood ...)
Today, the majority of Albanians in Macedonia live in the Polog region (the eastern part of Macedonia).
Exemple :
Appianus Alexandrinus (is a Greek historien of the Roman period) who qualified the Triballians of "Illyrian origin".
Source : "historia Romana".
Stephanus of Byzantium ( Great lexicographer of Constantinople, lived in the 6 th century), was written in the year 528-545, declares that the "Triballians are Illyrian.
Source : From Urbibus and Populis.
Other authors such as Strabo, Pliny, Ptolemy and Dion Cassius, state that the Triballians are of Thraco-Illyrian origin ( Pelasgians/Albanian )
Ethnical source:
Gjon Muzaka wrote in his memoires that she was a muzaka.
I think with the latter source we should conclude this whole discussion.
As it is a very close source - chronological and physical. The person in this case Gjon Muzaka knew Voisava personally and he fought besides Skanderbeg and skanderbegs son.
So he wouldnt dare to write something he would later regret right ? He wrote those memoires sometime before 1510 so basically before the book of barleti was printed.
The House of Kastrioti (Albanian: Dera e Kastriotëve) was an Albanian noble family, active in the 14th and 15th centuries as the rulers of the Principality of Kastrioti. At the beginning of the 15th century, the family controlled a territory in the Mat and Dibra regions.
Exemple :
Great grandfather = Kostandin Kastrioti Mazreku (died ca. 1390) was an Albanian 🇦🇱 regional ruler in parts of the wider Mat and Dibër areas.
Grandfather = Pal Kastrioti was an Albanian 🇦🇱 medieval ruler in the latter part of the 14th century in northern Albania.
Source : Genealogy of the Kastrioti family, Du Cange (1680), Historia Byzantina duplici commentario
Ethnicity = Skanderbeg himself defined himself as Albanian ( Ethnicity ) (handwritten letter).
Ex :
" Ioannes Antonius princeps Taranti Georgio Albano salutem "
= Georgio the Albanian 🇦🇱 salutes the prince Giovanni of Taranto .
Source : (Pope Pius II , Commentarii)
The same prince Giovanni Antonio described Skanderbeg as "Georgio Albano"..
Geography = Skanderbeg always signed himself as "Dominus Albaniae" (Albanian: Zot i Arbërisë, English: Lord of Albania🇦🇱)
Source : Frazee, Charles A. (22 June 2006). Catholics and Sultans: The Church and the Ottoman Empire 1453-1923. Cambridge University Press. p. 33.
Even the Serbs of the time considered Skanderbeg as Albanian, his father (Gjon) was buried in an Orthodox monastery, the Serbs named the tower where he is buried "Albanian tower🇦🇱"...
source : ( Himelstir. p. 45 )
Kings and Generals us Albanian I thank you great video its rare for a foreign to do something for us RESPECT.
I am Turkish .Skanderbeg is really a great warrior. Turks respect the great warriors. Rest in peace. Long live Albania 🇹🇷🇦🇱
For those who don't know, Vivaldi composed an opera named "Scanderbeg"
And for those who don't know Scanderbeg has another opera entitled to his name by Francois Francouer.
The endless resources of a great empire , Ottomand could muster an army again and again and again.I really appreciate the vid on Skanderberg - Georg Kastrioti , a brilliant tactician and diplomat.Keep up the good work !
we have reserves in real life
Wtf are you on mate, I want some of it.... shit is good lmao
l3054 West only stopped inbreeding 150 years ago. Turks stopped before them. Arabs on the other hand....
He is not Georg Kastrioti. He is Đorđe Kastriotović. The truth in only one.
Ottomans defeated mamluks ,portugal and spain for this wasteland and deserts
The greatest general of all times and still no movie for him. Gjergj kastrioti legend.
Alexander the Great is the goat
actually the is a movie russians made about him
There is a movie for him but its a old one, basically on the black and white era and its in albanian.
There is a movie for Him
Legendary commander, such a shame nobody joined him and rose up against the ottomans.
@Vard What would have happened if the Turks had stayed in Central Asia? If the Ottomans had not conquered Istanbul, there would have been no Renaissance. I see some Europeans behaving as if their only enemy is the Turks.
@Itachi Uchiha Well Pope died before the crusade was appointed. If that crusade was coming to fight the Turks with Supreme General Skanderbeg, Turks would be in Khazakstan today
Honestly if he was supported by the big nations in europe he could have maybe stopped them
theGreek deal γελοίος απλα
Proud, proud and so proud🇦🇱👐👐👐👐👐👐 we are grandchildrens of Skanderbeg🦅🦅👐👐👐🇦🇱
@Wanka Wanka bruh noone fkn cares abt religions here
Why are you Muslims then?
Wooooah???? Do tell!! 🇦🇱 🇨🇦
Wow this Scandalbag fella was something else! Another great general I’ve never heard of. Thanks for teaching me about him!
@shiteetah :)
Im glad you enjoyed the joke ;)
"Scandalbag" I'm sorry i had to laugh at that but thanks his name is Gjergj Kastrioti (Skënderbeu)
Love hungary from kosovo🇽🇰🇭🇺
Never lost a battle, a true Albanian national hero and overall legend.
@Stenky ironic
@Србске Новине byzantine empire existed it just wasn't called byzantine
@Jana Kolašinac I hope one day you will be able to look back and laugh at your indoctrination.
@Gothic Zwo Skenderbeg was a SERB! His name was Đurađ Branilović Kastriotić (kastriot means the defender of Castrum= utvrđenje- castle, it was a kind of title in Serbian kingdom). His father was Jovan, grandfather Pavle, great grandfather BRANILO! Branilo was Kefalia in Serbian kingdom, he got from Serbian king few districts to manage and to protect southern Serbian borders. Đurađ's uncle was Kostadin, his brothers Repoš and Staniša, sisters Vlajka, Mamica, Jelena, Mara, Angelina (they all had Serbian names). His mother was Vojislava (Mladenović) Branković also named Srbljanka (Tribalda) Srbli=Trbli Srblian = Tribalian (in Greek). Đurađ's father and brother are buried in Srebian monastery Hilandar. They were all speaking Serbian, their letters are signed in Serbian language and script. Jovan Mološanin (albanized - Jon Muzaka), said in his memoirs that Skenderbeg "is of Serbian nature".
Skenderbeg was a SERB! His name was Đurađ Branilović Kastriotić (kastriot means the defender of Castrum= utvrđenje- castle, it was a kind of title in Serbian kingdom). His father was Jovan, grandfather Pavle, great grandfather BRANILO! Branilo was Kefalia in Serbian kingdom, he got from Serbian king few districts to manage and to protect southern Serbian borders. Đurađ's uncle was Kostadin, his brothers Repoš and Staniša, sisters Vlajka, Mamica, Jelena, Mara, Angelina (they all had Serbian names). His mother was Vojislava (Mladenović) Branković also named Srbljanka (Tribalda) Srbli=Trbli Srblian = Tribalian (in Greek). Đurađ's father and brother are buried in Srebian monastery Hilandar. They were all speaking Serbian, their letters are signed in Serbian language and script. Jovan Mološanin (albanized - Jon Muzaka), said in his memoirs that Skenderbeg "is of Serbian nature".
Thank you for making respect to our national hero.... the only man who has really loved his nation and done things for its sucess!!
I feel always respected when I am in Budapest , like Albanian and still Catolic I feel that they respect me and my pasport from Gjergj Kastrioti and this makes me go many many times there I wish I could known some Hungarian but however is nice when people welcomed you so HUNGARY is a great nation and always should be our aleat
Wow I M Albanian but i dident know all this how strong Skenderbeu was. Unbeliveble. Done so much with such a little army.
Two of strongest Sultans with their best armies of time couldn't defeat him.
The Dragon remains Dragon
En güçlüsü Yavuz Sultan Selim Han'dır.
@AK๛ KLAUDJO
Dragon - because his mother saw in a dream that a dragon would be born
A eagle not a dragon 🇦🇱🇦🇱
@Majingilane Gjergj Kastriot (Skenderbeg) it's the fourth best General in the history and you are telling me about Suleiman !
@Majingilane he Conquered THE MOST Fortified city in the world, but was repelled by Skenderbeu.
Greetings to Albania from Turkey.
R.I.P. Skanderbeg and Mehmet the Conqueror
Skanderbeg the protector of Europe the King of Kings respect to Albanians from the Netherlands
@HELLENIC NATIONALISM HAHAHAHHAHAHA thats what I thought, so no sources?
@Edison Ahmeti No appointments, no arguments, no explanations.. no sources
@Edison Ahmeti I can't do it because you don't collaborate. First you must provide me your appointments, your arguments, tell me what might be wrong and explicitly explain why, be more specific..
@HELLENIC NATIONALISM Then post your sources bruh.......
@HELLENIC NATIONALISM Then post it lmfao wtf?
This man was a special war strategy master! He was also strong as hell! He used strategies to deaf ottomans attacks so many times. Ottomans best known sultans too. And the best part, turkey respectfully agrees with all this history and how much trouble they had with Skenderbeg. So props to turks not being losers and discrediting him
One must give credit when credit is due. There's no denying the obvious.Clearly we trained him too well and he used our own tactics against us.I take my hat off to the guy for putting up such stiff resistance to the Ottomans.
In Turkey we have a saying "bükemediğin bileği öpeceksin" ie. You must kiss the hand you can't defeat.
Scanderbeg is the one of the one. We are still chatolics albanians of Mirdita region. Scanderbeg and Lek Dukagjini are protecters of West Europe. We are proud to be descendants of His Majesty
@ALB Drill Dibra today is all muslim
@ALB Drill I dont say that He is mirditas. Read it better
Skanderbeg was from Dibra bro not Mirdita
I like Mirdita in Albania today. My roots are from there