Balkan Peoples About Scanderbeg and His Uprising Against Ottoman Empire
Balkan Peoples About Scanderbeg and His Uprising Against Ottoman Empire

Summary/Abstract: There are a small number of leaders of liberation movements in the last 5 centuries, who taken place not only into Albanian, but also into World historiography, as it is the case with the Albanian National hero, Gjergj Kastrioti – Skënderbeu. In the bibliography, published in Paris into 1881 from George Petrovich, is cited 185 units, historical or literary, which facing this period and the person of Scanderbeg. This bibliography today is multiplied. In the bibliography, published in Tirana in the year 1968, on the occasion of 500 years of the death of Scanderbeg are enumerated more then 1000 heading published into more of 20 languages (including Esperanto). This number today is assuredly surpassed. In the time when Ottomans were in the must powerful stage of their history, when all Balkans and Europe were exposed to the risk of the Ottoman invasion, at the 15th century, Scanderbeg and Janosh Huniadi were the only who gave a resistance to the Ottoman army. After the death of Janos Hunyadi in 1456, Scanderbeg continued to resist and fight against the Ottomans wave in Albania alone.

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