@@skendertahiri389 ja sam potomak Skenderbega. Možete lagat i izmisljat i krasti tuđe licnosti ali ne moze se to odrzat. Do you no where is Repoš day?? Son off Skenderbeg?? In monastery Hilandar!!! How is Abanian day in Serbian manastir??? Hhhhaaaaa
I was in Albania and Kosovo last summer, and they have statues of him in both Tirana and Prishtina. I'm sure the Albanians will be glad to know that, as an American, it was my first trip outside of the US and I really enjoyed it.
@Flacko Pretty according to Serbs and Greeks Gjergj name should have been Gjergjovic Kastriotvic and for Greeks Georgios Kastriotios 😂😂😂😂😂 soon they will claim to be Illyrians i the Slavic names and language
@@sotirzvanidjubre4109 Gjergj (Skanderbeg) = Albanian name. Gjon (Skanderbeg's father) = Albanian name. Pal (Skanderbeg's grandfather) = Albanian name. Etc ... You are implying that her mother may have been Serbian because she carried a Slavic name ... ( It means absolutely nothing, especially since Albanians at that time were Christian/Orthodox! ) The name "Voisava or Vojsava" is worn by a lot of Albanian women still today ... Moreover this name "Voisava or Vojsava" is almost non-existent among Serbian women today ... Then the name "Voisava or Vojsava" has a meaning in Albanian language (Illyrian): Vaissa = Girl ... ( Which is by adding the suffix -va, becomes vaissa-va, -Vojsava ) In addition to that the first name Voisava, Vojsava is carried by a lot of Albanian women still today while Serbian women do not carry this name practically! (Look in UA-cam etc ... ) In addition to that the city of Polog (in North Macedonia currently), where Skanderbeg's mother was born is still populated by a majority of Albanians today. Then some of Skanderbeg's brothers and sisters had Slavic and Greek names... Why ? Answer = What are the cultural names of the culture that dominates in Orthodoxy? The Slavic and Greek! Example : Vlad III Basarab, nicknamed "the Impaler" who has a Slavic name, but he is not Slavic, he is Romanian / Vlach ... He has a Slavic name because the dominant culture in the Orthodoxy is Slavic and Greek ... (that's why we found Slavic or Greek names ... think about it. ) As in Islam the dominant culture for the names are Arabic and Turkish, it's simple... The Muslim Albanians of today can have for example an Arabic or Turkish name, but it doesn't mean that they are Arabs or Turks ... it's just for the religion ...
@@sotirzvanidjubre4109 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.
@@sotirzvanidjubre4109 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.
Okay yes but it was literally betrayal. He was loyal to his people; he was a traitor to the empire, just like Arminius. Truly, the only good kind of treason.
Yhanks Algeria. Do not listen to this muslim turk. I am a mudlim myself but the one who wrote down is a silly turckik loser. Thanks again. Viva Algeria
One of the few cases where even Turks respected. The guy rebelled and betrayed the Ottomans, but damn was he a tactical genius that won against increasing odds time and time again. At some point you just have to respect that.
Skanderbeg is the greatest patriot to ever live. He left all the goods he had in the ottoman empire for his motherland and for glory, his deeds are still remembered till this day, undoubtedly an inspiration for all of us today.
@@carllucas89 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.
@@carllucas89 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.
@@carllucas89 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)!
Not only Skenderbeg knew the Ottoman warfare but he adapted and improved light cavalry maneuvers even further when fighting against them. After his death some of his warriors became fearsome mercenaries in other countries of Europe and their tactics eventually led to the birth of famous military units such as the Hussars, which shaped the European warfare for centuries. Because of those mercenaries the medieval French would compliment someone who rode a horse exceptionally well saying "he rides like an Albanian".
I love this guy. As an Albanian, I think he is a hero, but it is deeper than that… he was one of the greatest generals in history, and he is *still* so underrated. Like others said, I hope he gets his own movie.
@@ri_drz Yeah but he needs a big one like Hollywood - level. Albania with it's beautiful nature just imagine the quality of the movie. Skanderbeg should be played by James Belushi or James Biberi.
no . Dont let the dirty hands of amerikans touch our beautiful history . They made Alexander the great Gay and Achillees black . I prefer 1000 times to keep reading about Iskender bey than to see a western movie that portrays him politically correct . He was the greatest general of his century ,the Last Byzantine Bastion and National Hero of Albania ,i dont want west to touch him .
He also won battles in Itlay none talks about that or hes early campains in Anatolia The reasone he left back is because he had grown alot of trust from the sultans and other influencial people wanted to stop that and puted words in sultans head So hes trust for scanderbeg grew less and less so scanderbeg was sad qnd left
I think thats wrong because of how we can look at stuff in modern day, he had pledged allegiance to the ottoman empire and then broken it. Heroic but still a betryal even if he was albanian it then would just be called treason which sounds a lot worse and is a lot worse they betryal
@@kevinsworldK.w69 Sultan betrayed him ,by occupying his father's lands! What would you do if you were a emigrant in germany for example,and germans start a war with your native country?For which country would you fight?!
@@thelastknight5505 The one i converted to? Anyways if you did look around more back when this video was new you would see i specifically have said that the ottoman empire really was the one who betrayed him and btw ur example is bad
Albania is one of the most beautiful and friendly, safe places I’ve ever been to. I don’t have lots of money but I go back to tirana every 3 or 4 times a year because I love the people there and the food. Absolutely amazing history and places to visit. Everyone should consider visiting the country I promise you you’ll fall in love with it ❤️🇦🇱🇳🇱
@@80kalbanian28 Albania is safe as fuck, safer than most European places. My backpack got stolen in Barcelona not in Albania. and I almost got migged by thigs in New York, not in Albania.
Betrayed the Ottomans? How you can betray the enemy? He's our Hero, our religion, our belief...our life...everything...We Albanians exist because of Him...❤ God bless Albanian people!
@@yaksklolanbenim5309 Ottomans invaded albania, George Kastrioti was kidnapped and brainwashed...but one day GOD told him to return to motherland and liberate his people...and He did...that's why we called him our legendary Hero!❤
@@yaksklolanbenim5309 His name:Đurađ Brother:Staniša Father:Jovan Mother:Vojsava Son:Ivan English historian Gibbon:He is related to the Serbian tribes in Montenegro. After all, how he can be Albanian?
I've not seen anyone pick up this story until now. Spread the legacy of this amazing man. From what I've read there were two main causes for the betrayal. 1) Skanderbeg was loyal to the Sultan and the Sultan was loyal to Skanderbeg. This caused jealousy amongst other influential men at court who through intrigue managed to get the Sultan to doubt Skanderbeg. This change of heart led Skanderbeg to plan his exit. 2) His personal devotion to the Virgin Mary. Fun fact, the image he used to pray in front of after he returned to Albania now resides in the Vatican.
He was from a noble family pf north Albania. His father Gjon Kastrioti rebelled against ottomans, Sultan after defeated him got all his children to Istanbul so Gjon became a vassal of the Sultan Murad ll, Gjon Kastrioti before he got separated by his son, he said to him to remember that ottomans are enemy and never forget your roots, Gjon knew his son was special and he knew ottomans gonna do everything to assimilate him, Skanderbeg never forgot his father’s words and at the best opportunity he came back to his country and fought ottomans in epic battles becoming the national hero of Albania, christianity and all Europe and entering in the elite list of the best generals and tactician wars world ever known. Maybe he is the best defensive general world ever has known.
Skanderbeg wasn't really that religious, he was considered an infedel by both the pope and the sultan, Skanderbeg was also a muslim when he was with the ottomans, he reconverted to orthodoxy and later to catholicism. In one of his swords if has written: "libehadur Allah iskander beg" which mean champion of Allah Skanderbeg
@Ahmet Sakızcı "and stuff..."🤡 when you can't even make a proper argument you add and stuff while the guy above you made a whole ass paragraph, i understand man you're a turk and your country is too embarrassed to teach you proper history about a guy who defeated your empire for 25 years straight
@Ahmet Sakızcı you should probably tell that to over 12 countries that have made him a statue, damn those must be some dumbass countries trynna 'overglorify' a foreign leader right? Tell me, how many sultans are respected worldwide like Skanderbeg is? How many Albanian generals did the ottoman empire have that contributed to your victories. And the fact that you're a history fan doesn't make you a history expert at all, and yeah i'm pretty sure yall don't know much about him in Turkey since you buried his work down in history, yall don't wanna remember how you embarrassingly lost, well i can't blame you a man with a tiny army deafeating the biggest empire at the time, boyyy that must be shameful af for your history
@Ahmet Sakızcı Absolutely malding 500+years after the man's death for causing at the very least around 200k casualties with an army multiple times smaller
Albanians love their their land,more than their own life! I had the pleasure to meet a lot of them,they are the most bravest people on earth 🌎 Much love and respect
Really? That's why you resisted Islam? Oh the dominant religion is Sunni. That's why you fought for your independence? Oh the Balkan league treaty liberated you. That's why you fought the invading fascist Italy? Oh you signed to be an Italian puppet. Yes you love it so much!
@@prishtinedardania5255 its called diplomacy. Something you never had and you don't have till today. Maybe if you work diplomacy you can develop more and have friends. But maps of greater Albania are more appealing right??
@@sprc155 i remember during Enver Hoxha in 1959 when greece attacked south Albania but you turned back in 2 days And remember the 1821 when Arvanites liberated you they was the bravest warriors in greek army
The most interesting thing is Moisi Golemi's betrayal. Moisi Golemi (Moisi Shkodra) was one of the best army commanders during that time in Albania, but as a person, he was a soft heart person. His idea was for Skanderbeg to stop the resistance and that it's better for Albanians to do what all of the Balkan people did (bow down to the sultan), he thought that was a better decision for the Albanians who were starving because they didn't have the economy to fight against the biggest empire in the world at the time. He saw that other Balkan people were getting their religious and ethnic rights from the Ottoman Empire and thought that Albanians are going to be assimilated by the end of this war. He joined the Ottoman empire to stop Skanderbeg from this war of destruction and self-destruction too. Obviously Skanderbeg didn't agree to that as he would think that he is the Albanian king and that his kingdom should never be conquered and tried to get help from the Pope and Naples. In the battle of Oranik (the most violent battle of them all) Moisi Golemi led an Ottoman army (15.000) against the Skanderbegs army (10.000). In this battle an ottoman soldier named Ahimaz asked for a 1v1 duel and an Albanian soldier named Zaharia Gropa accepted the duel and easily cut Ahimaz's head off. After that Moisi challenged Skanderbeg in a 1v1 duel and when Skanderbeg walked in the middle of the field Moisi ordered the attack (trying to get Skanderbeg killed) the battle started and Skanderbeg fought in the front line of the army. After 2 hours of fighting Moisi escaped after losing 10.000 soldiers ( 2/3 of the army) while Skanderbeg lost only 1000. Moisi Golemi later regret the betrayal and asked Skanderbeg for mercy, Skanderbeg accepted him back in his army. Moisi Golemi was later captured by the Ottoman forces during the battle of Ohrid (9000 Albanians+1000 Venetians against 14.000 ottomans) Albanians won the battle but 12 of skanderbegs close people were captured (Including Skanderbegs nephews and Moisi Golemi). Skanderbeg tried to pay the Sultan for their release, but the sultan executed them in public by ripping their skin alive (they all had a painful death). Skanderbeg took their revenge (based on the Albanian kanun) during the siege of Kruje in 1466 by killing Ballaban Bardhi (Baderi) and close to 30 thousand ottoman soldiers (most of them after capture).
The history has shown that Mousi Golemi was not wrong. Albania was the only country who was ruled with an iron hand and got fully assimilated, with no albanian language rights, no religion and no investments. Sometimes is good to know when to give up a fight
Skanderbeg, probably the most underrated warrior in human history. Albanian history seriously deserves more global recognition. I mean, how does a man manage to remain victorious in all his battles, despite being so vastly outnumbered and less well equipped.
@@miloshcvetkovic8568 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.
@@miloshcvetkovic8568 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.
@@miloshcvetkovic8568 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)!
One of the best medieval generals of Europe also kudos to Mehmed the Conqueror he fought various stars of his era Skanderbeg, Stephen III, Uzun Hasan, Vlad, Hunyadi,...
@@carllucas89 shut up u betrayed every Balkan nation during those wars...now u try to steal other's glory to make it urs because u people married ur daughters to the Ottomans
@@carllucas89 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.
@@carllucas89 The League of Lezhë (Albanian: Lidhja e Lezhës), also commonly referred to as the Albanian League (Albanian: Lidhja Arbërore), was a military and diplomatic alliance of the Albanian aristocracy, created in the city of Lezhë on 2 March 1444. The League of Lezhë is considered as the first unified independent Albanian 🇦🇱 country in the Medieval age, with Skanderbeg as leader of the regional Albanian chieftains and nobles united against the Ottoman Empire. Source : Babinger, Franz (1992). Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time. Princeton University Press. p. 54. Archived from the original on 18 May 2016. ... a solid military alliance was concluded among all the Albanian chieftains along the Adriatic coast from southern Epirus to the Bosnian border.
Facts - Scanderbeg has never lost a single battle Skanderbeg fought 29 battles against the Ottomans and 4 battles against Venice and won them all 🔥🇦🇱💪.
He is a man of honour which never turned his country and land for anything he was given to and Albania are proud of him and will Always be for us long we exist 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱😍
@@SERBIA1389SERBIA 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.
@@SERBIA1389SERBIA 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)!
In one of the battles somewhere in Albania, some Ottoman soldiers asked other soldiers, if anybody had seen SKENDERBEG? The other soldiers answered, if we saw SKENDERBEG we would be dead 💀
Robt Skanderbeu = Idiot He killed also albanian Muslims but you are manipulated. He was against ISLAM(only Religion) and not against turks. At that time there were no "turks". One week he was Muslim, next week Catholic, Muslim, orthodox,.... 100% Kafir And nationality is eitherway Haram because its arrogant...
@@illyrian3057 les turk on du respect pour Gjergj Kastrioti, et c’est normal il était trop fort … si Kastriot avait autant d’hommes que l’empire ottoman il serait le roi du monde à cette époque
He was the greatest General the Ottoman Empire trained. He pretty much gave them a little bit of their own medicine. They wanted his head for almost 30 years. He also had great Albanian warriors with him. After his death Albania was able to defend themselves for almost 10 years 😉💪.
@@alessandroastival It failed 10 years after his death when Venice took over and couldn't hold on for much longer. After that thousands of Albanians fled to Italy. Due to a lack of Priests the majority of Albanians converted to islam due to higher taxes for non muslims and being treated as second class citizens. but don't forget only around 2/3 of Albanians converted and nor Islam or any other religion for that matter are a part of Albanian identity.
@@JustMe-yy7uc The hero of the resistance and not acknowledging defeat. The hero of the most ancient people of the Balkan Peninsula who saved Europe from the Turks
@@resurrection3D No, that's not true. The real story is; His father send him to Istanbul so he can train. His father even complain why the Otomans are not taking his son sooner. Anyway, they accepted his son,train him for many years (free of charge). After he became big,he betraid the Osmans. Made a deal with Vatican,changed the religion to Catholic (but before he accepted Islam he was orthodox) and is gone back to Albania to try stop Osmans taking over EU.
Robt Skanderbeu = Idiot He killed also albanian Muslims but you are manipulated. He was against ISLAM(only Religion) and not against turks. At that time there were no "turks". One week he was Muslim, next week Catholic, Muslim, orthodox,.... 100% Kafir And nationality is eitherway Haram because its arrogant...
Much respect to Skenderbeg ( Iskenderbey). He fought against the mighty Ottoman Armies and won every single time. You have to give him the well deserved credit !! From a proud Ottoman Turk..
@@fuckcorona5218 Skanderbeg family names, father Ivan mother Vojislava, brothers Repoš, Staniša, sisters Vlajka, Mamica, Mara, Jela, Andjelina all Serbian Slavic names and not Albanian or Turkish. Oh and Skanderbeg's father and brother were buried in Serbian monastery Hilandar :)
To be able to stand against the ottoman empire who at the time was a rising superpower is simply astonishing. This was the time when the whole Europe was shaking and afraid of an Ottoman invasion deep into Europe. But this genius from this small place so underfunded and outnumbered many times over was able to held the ottomans back. He gave the whole Europe hope that the ottomans can be defeated.
You are right he was a genius, but dont forget that he used guerilla tactics in the mountain against conventional army. Its very hard to win such a battle for a conventional army. Like the Habsburgers who fought against the Swiss in the Alps and lost all the battles. Yet Skanderbeg is a military genius. No doubt.
@@hanifitasova519 His most famous battle is "The Battle of Albulena" where he fought 80,000 Turks with a 10,000 allied Albanian army. To note, he fought them in the night, when the Turks were resting and he won. He has many more victories while being down 1:2 / 1:3 in an open field battle (like his campaign in Macedonia, attacking Ohrid and other cities) and were still won. There is a reason that he is a good military general, because he also attacked, he didn't camp and entrench his forces in any fortification, rather than that used every logical tactic to create chaos against enemy forces. To note, he even arrived in Italy, unknown territory for him and won every single battle there in behalf of his allies.
He not only gave hope to the rest of europe, but he gave them time by holding them back and weakening them massively. Therefore time to develop and become strong enough to defend themself. Thats why in Vienna they were able to finally defeat the ottomans and eventually destroy their dreams of conquering europe.
But you know how europe thanked Albania. By abandoning and forgetting them and at the end even by dividing their lands. Their is an old saying in albanian because of that: Moj evrop shtrig e vjeter - Oh Europe you old witch
If it wasn’t because of Albaninas and their leader Skenderbeu,almost all of europe would be conquered by ottomans.When Skenderbeu died Sultan Mehemd II said “Europe lost it’s shield and sword”❤️
Can’t believe Hollywood hasn’t made a movie out of our nation hero. He really deserves a movie like Alexander the Great. It’s very sad that he was left alone while asking the Vatican for help.
@@sorcierenoire8651 lmao, whitewash? Trust me, today is racewashing in movies very probably, but whitewashing it is maybe in 1/5 cases. It’s more probably that they will make from him transgender asian fighting for social justice
@@arbmustafa5571 You're not even Albanian lol, Ottomans essentially blackmailed other populations to convert to Islam due to enormous taxes and oppression. If you study the history of the Balkans under Ottomans, you'll find that the biggest rate of crypto-christianity (secret christians) was in Albania. Even today barely any Albanians are genuinely religious.
Proud to be Albanian.. Skanderbeg is not appreciated enough as athleta Christi but he saved Europe from ottoman invasion for 25 years.. A tactical genius ❤️
Robt Skanderbeu = Idiot He killed also albanian Muslims but you are manipulated. He was against ISLAM(only Religion) and not against turks. At that time there were no "turks". One week he was Muslim, next week Catholic, Muslim, orthodox,.... 100% Kafir And nationality is eitherway Haram because its arrogant...
How stupid are people to think that he betrayed the Ottomans? He simply quit his job and went back home. Quitting your job is not betrayal. He had nothing in common with the ottomans and that showed in the battlefield. He had different blood, different heart, different brain and different culture from ottomans.
You have no concept of how Empires work. The Ottomans werent purely Turk they were mixed. The Empire was fighting for Ottomans (including Albanians). He wanted his own people to have their own land instead of being apart of an empire and hence betrayed the empire that gave him everything.
@@3three3 you must be taking illegal drugs!!! I don’t care what you want to call it and you can twist it any way you like it to make you feel better. He did kick ottoman ass like no one ever did. No ottoman ever succeeded to conquer Albanias despite 500 years of attempts. He simply just chopped up ottomans/Turks to pieces.
@@tutabugarin4410 Yes yes, George Washington was a serb, Durad Washimgtonvić, John Cena was also a 1001% Serb chetnik, his real name was Jovan Cenović. Zivella Crbijee 🇸🇰💪🏿
How did Skanderbeg fight the Ottomans? He was raised by the Ottoman Army, learned their tactics and skills. Got his name from the Turkish name for Alexander (Iskender) and Beg (Lord) = Skanderbeg. Became a traitor and is now a national Icon. Which is good, every Nation needs a strong Icon. He is one for sure.
yeah and you knew his tactics as well. anyways iskender is not turkish its arabic and beg is of persian origin. also, skanderbeg didnt even speak turkish, he spoke albanian latin and persian.
5:02 - 5:10 It was 1443, because at 28th of November 1443, Scanderbeg raised the Albanian flag at his castle in Kruja. That's why even Albanian proclamation of independence happened in 28th of Novermber 1912.
Finally someone mentioned all albanians nobles family like, dukagjini, gropa, muzaka, thopia! I will ask you to do another documentary about Ali pasha tepelena!
Robt Skanderbeu = Idiot He killed also albanian Muslims but you are manipulated. He was against ISLAM(only Religion) and not against turks. At that time there were no "turks". One week he was Muslim, next week Catholic, Muslim, orthodox,.... 100% Kafir And nationality is eitherway Haram because its arrogant...
@Dark Eaglez Greeks and Albanians are historical brothers, not just geographiclly but also geneticlly, being the only 2 last surviving paleo balkan people with the last surviving paleo balkan languages and almost identical genetics. The Serbian propaganda machines broke this brotherhood. We Albanians shed blood for the independence of Greece and today majority of Greeks hate us due to the fact in the late 19th and early 20th century alot of nationalism rose throughout the balkans and the Greeks saw the Muslim Albanians as enemies and the Christian Albanians as Greeks and then called the Serbs "Orthodox Brothers" when historiclly Serbs have always assaulted Greece and were one of the main reasons the Byzantine Empire fell.
@Dark Eaglez Not all Greeks dislike Albanians - many I have met have Albanian friends themselves and have 0 hate against us. Some nationalists do, the same way it is the other way around. In the end, Albanians and Greeks have more reason to respect one another than continue with pointless hate and accusations. In this case, he apparently liked the video and didn't show any hostility - let's appreciate and respect that.
This is the second time, I find my comment gone (dare I say, deleted?) despite the fact that I'm saying something extremely similar to the response-comments below. Anyways, third times the charm. I'm going to write it again as a seperate comment to this one, to see if both will disappear (again).
@Dark Eaglez Greeks and Albanians share a genetic similarity to the point that it start to be idiotic to consider them anything else other than the same group of people just with the use of a different language each. The great powers have their reasons to make Albanians and Greeks forget they were mostly allies throughout their common history (if not even brothers as we implied above) and benefit for making us think we should hate each other. Sadly, after a century of seperation, this hate has grown large between us, but a true patriot knows his history and knows his historical allies/brother nations. Therefore, a true Greek patriot and a true Albanian patriot, both would know of each other in a positive light and would be proud of one another's history and national heroes. Know I don't know the OP's opinion of this, but I hope he is of similar viewpoint on this issue.
I read about Skanderbeg few months ago, when I was looking for inspiration for my own fantasy setting (Custom MTG set), I think it's a shame that history of Balkans is ignored by so many.
@@SlovenskiVuk 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..
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..
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)
Not only were they outnumbered. But the Ottoman army was lead by Skanderbegs traitorous nephew Hamza Kastrioti who knew all of Skanderbegs tactics and Skanderbeg did a masterclass of a strategy that Hamza had no idea of and completly crushed the Ottomans. Numerous scholars mentioned the battle of Albulena as the greatest victory of Skanderbeg.
@@gigasigma8373 The battle of Albulena was more like a slaughter than a battle! Skanderbeg attacked the camp and he had villagers playing the drums to create an effect, so ottomans believed they were outnumbered! Hamza knew this was his strategy, but he couldn't convince the ottomans who panicked and fled the field. It is believed that more than 30.000 ottomans died or got captured that day!
"It is said that when Skanderbeg's mother, Vojsava, became pregnant with him, she saw in a dream that a dragon was born so large that it covered the whole of Epirus and Arberia (Albania). bloodied himself, while holding his tail in the sea, on the borders of the Venetian state. " - By Marin Barletti "
Well he was part or the Dragon Order Like Milos Obilic, Vlad The Impaler, Stefan Lazarevic aswell as many others. Besides Stefan Lazarevic who had to fight alongside Sultan Bayazid because his sister was married to the Sultan and was technically a prisoner in the Ottoman palace. Milos Obilic - pretended to defect, Assassinated Murad I. Vlad the Impaler - taken as a boy, was released then defected and waged war against the Ottomans. Skanderbeg - taken as a boy, defected and waged war against the Ottomans. There was a similar pattern amongst these guys.
Majority of high ranking state officials of Ottoman Empire were Albanians. Even 5 million Albanians live in Turkey today and some of them are government officials today.Çevik Bir was an Albanian ex-general of Turkey.
@@kuykasamjoktar6191 Yes. The Arnavut (🇦🇱) have contributed enormously in the Ottoman Empire and also in Turkey today ... Many Albanians were recruited into the Ottoman Devşirme and Janissary with 42 Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire being of Albanian origin ( ... ) Malcolm 2002, p. 82. "Modern historians would also think it necessary to refer to the many examples of cooperation (sometimes to mutual advantage) between inhabitants of the Albanian lands and their foreign rulers - above all, in the case of the Ottomans, with their innumerable soldiers and officials of Albanian origin. Example (Statesmen, revolutionary, generals, notables or ruling families of Albanian origin) : - Lala Shahin pacha (first Beylerbey of the Ottoman Empire, governor of Rumelia). - Lala Mustafa pacha defeated the Venetians in Famagusta (Cyprus) - Mehmed Pasha Arnavud, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire. - Köprülü, an important Turkish family of Albanian origin of which FIVE members were Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire from 1656 to 1710 and in Turkey until today. - Fazil Ahmet pacha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire. - Mustafa Hussein, Grand-Vizier of the Ottoman Empire. - Mehmet Ali, vice king of Egypt, founder of an Albanian dynasty that reigned for nearly 150 years, including the last king of Egypt, Farouk I. - Mustafa Kemal said, Atatürk, statesman founder of modern Turkey (having Albanian origins) Etc... Famous architect of the Ottoman Empire of Albanian origin: - Sinân Mimar built the most beautiful mosque of Istanbul (Süleymaniye, between 1550 and 1557), the Shehzâde mosque of Istanbul, the Selîmiye mosque of Edrine (his masterpiece), the white mosque (Yeni Djami) and nearly 360 other monuments. - Sedef Qar Mehmet Biçakci of Elbasan, architect of the Hyppodrome or Atmeydan Mosque. (System of aqueducts of Istanbul built by several Albanian architects) - Mehmet Mustafa Agha and Hoxha Kasem built the Valid Sultaniyé Mosque in Galata (Istanbul -1873). Etc ... Source : Albanie (Histoire et langue) ou l'incroyable odyssé d'un peuple préhellénique (p.41), Mathieu AREF. Many of the best fighters in the sultan's elite guard, the janissaries, were conscripted as young boys from Christian Albanian families, and high-ranking Ottoman officials often had Albanian bodyguards. Source : Raymond Zickel and Walter R. Iwaskiw (1994). "Albania: A Country Study ("Albanians under Ottoman Rule")". Retrieved 9 April 2008. Besides that there are millions of people of Albanian (European) origin in Turkey. The number of people of Albanian origin is about 5 million (or more) Sources : - 1 Yenigun 2009, p. 184. "Turkey contains 5-6 million Albanians (more than in the Balkan area)" 2- Saunders 2011, p. 98. 3- Deliso 2007, p. 38
Fun fact: in Romanian, Skanderbeg's name is also the word used for armwrestling. The sport is also called "brat de fier"(iron arm), which was apparently a nickname of his at the time.
ua-cam.com/video/Ct-Xt9gDwO0/v-deo.html ♤ (Minute 28.00 ) Skenderbeu is armwrestling with others to see how strong they are and decide on which position they will be placed into. Maybe this really happened and thats from where the romanian name for armwrestling came from.
@@albinh.3149 Could be. Romania(Wallachia at the time) is pretty close to Albania and the region has always had close ties to the Balkans more than any other parts of Europe.
Yes, there was only one half Albanian and half Montenegrin noble called Stefan Crnojeviç. His mother was an Albanian and he also married with an Albanian noblewoman, plus he dedicated his whole life to the Albanian strugle! He was more than half Albanian.
Even your surname is serbian krasnic. Y where turks 100 years ago and albanizaid a lot of serbian tribes. Crnojevici are serbs like balsici and y have them today so y can ask them if they are serbiams
@@NB-kq7lm that is an insult! My surname is pure Albanian. It can be traced back around thousand years back! Serbian surnames are made up names by adding a vic at the end they have no meanings! On the other hand Albanian surnames they all have meanings! There is no real Serbian surnames your language is slav!
@Natan like I said early study careful those surnames and there are all this Albanians surnames in slav populations and greek ones, by millions! A surname in Albanian it explains it’s origin and meaning! In Slav language nothing you just add whatever behind and you are Slav or Greek! In other words you can become Slav or Greek anytime but, you have to be born to be Albanian! This is were we almost lost our war for existence, losing population!
Fun fact: Skanderbeg's greatest campaign wasn't against the Ottomans but the Italians and French. When Alfonso the Magnanimous (Alfonso V of Aragon) conquered Naples, he stationed the largest army in all of Europe in Sicily in anticipation to launch a Crusade when the Pope gave the signal. This never came to pass but Skanderbeg got word about Alfonso's army in Sicily and since he was fighting the Ottoman War Machine all on his lonesome, he needed an insurance policy i.e. a strong ally. He beseeched Alfonso to be his insurance policy and Alfonso heartily agreed and signed the *Treaty of Gaeta* . Alfonso, despite not declaring outright war on the Ottomans, assisted Skanderbeg in all his needs (be it men, weapons, supplies etc...) Needless to say, they developed a strong friendship. When Alfonso died, he left the Crown of Aragon to his brother (John II of Aragon) but left Naples to his *bastard* son; Ferdinand. In short, Ferdinand wasn't accepted by the Neapolitan nobility and the Italian City-States as a whole. Pretty much the whole of Italy, alongside France, declared war on Ferdinand. Guess who came to his aid? Freaking Skanderbeg. His first letter to Ferdinand was him expressing grief about Alfonso's death and the letter ended with: " *but however things may turn out I am the friend of virtue and not fortune* ." Immediately that same year, Skanderbeg landed in Naples and swept the floor with the Italians and French.
@@spirokaci Because he had much more support considering he had all of Aragon’s army behind him but against the Ottomans he didn’t have money or soldiers
@@madflaka4087 No! The truth is that ottoman military tactics and art of war were superior of the rest of Europe. Alfonso of Naples had an entire army behind him and still failed to win against french. For Skanderbeg wars he fought in Italy were a walk in park. Nothing to compare with ottoman punitive expeditions.
Why is it that the failures of the ancient Romans were never followed? Take a guy as a hostage then eventually give command post in your army never ends well
That's kind of the thing, though: usually it did end pretty well. We hear about the exceptions, but most of the time they managed to either turn their hostages, or sus out potential traitors before they can do any real damage. There's a reason why hostage-taking was standard practice around the world.
We celebrate 6 May too in North Albania. We call it Shen Gjergj. My grandparents who didn't have the chance to go to school mention him as a superhuman. Like Skenderbeu has blessed this or has cursed that. He has cut that rock with his sword or has jumped from here to there with his horse. So mythology who has run for 500 years, despite that was all ottoman era, his myth has survived in people of Albania.
I really dont belive all you arvanit were completely orthodox albanians or tosks...I hail from northern tribes and i did dna test.I have alot of arvant relitives in greece..I actually was like wtf
"Many Arvanites find the designation "Albanians" OFFENSIVE as THEY IDENTIFY NATIONALLY AND ETHNICALLY AS GREEKS AND NOT ALBANIANS." "Arvanitis respondents IMIR's team spoke with, talked about Albanians WITH DISGUST..." Hajdinjak Marko (2005). Don't want to live with them, can't afford to live without them: Albanian labor migration in Greece Archived 2015-07-01 at the Wayback Machine. Academic paper. International Center for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations (IMIR). pp. 8-9.
@@vangelisskia214 yet they worship scanderbeg who mentioned albania and his people as albanian..Imagine that pick and choose..We catholiks laugh so hard at the arvanties. Brag about how strong they are yet a catholik albanian killed botsari for money 😂.
Happy that this will be a 3 episodes series. The battle of Uje Bardha(white water) and basically every battle fought by the albanians lead by Skanderbeg is something worth to know. Uje bardha in particular is one of the most important battles of the medieval era from a tactical point of view and is a Must Study for every person studying military tactics. The albanian revolt is truly overlooked in history books and that's so sad, in Italy we owe so much to Skanderbeg yet we barely know him. I got interested in Skanderbeg thanks to my sister's fiancèe, who's an arberesh, a descendant of those albanians that fled to Italy after the death of skanderbeg and the ottoman conquest. Then started playing eu4, where Skanderbeg is rightfully the most broken ruler and general at the start date
@Luka Perac To this day there are Skanderbeg descendants living in italy and spain and consider themselves albanian...... My sister's fiancèe is also albanian and his ancestors fought for Skanderbeg and fled to italy. Everything else i nationalistic bullshit with no historic basis
@Luka Perac 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.
@Luka Perac 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.
@Luka Perac 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)!
Finally our great hero gets some recognition. I hope you include the letter he wrote to the king of Taranto. Btw he didn't convert to Catholicism but back to orthodoxy but still recognised the power of the Pope, mainly get help from then in crusades against the ottomans. Also the zh in Lezhë is pronounced together similar to the sh sound but with voice. And the ë makes a schwa sound like the ö in many Germanic languages.
@burri jote2 Yeah it's not like you can use religion to further your geo-political interests. "Recognising the popes authority is what distinguishes catholics and the orthodox". - I hope you're joking. Do you even know the great schism even happen# surly it was instigated by the Patriarch and the Pope but you do realise the sects have different dogmas and pretty much different structures overall.
Serbian Prince, Brankovic- ally of otomans, didn't allow Skanderbeg passing through serbian land to join Huniady. So, serbs betrayed Christian forcës and helped otomans.
After skenderbeg died many Albanians who didn’t want the ottoman rule fled to italy who are called arberesh and still have Kept their traditions and a very similar language with Albania today
@@SlovenskiVuk 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.
@@SlovenskiVuk 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.
@@SlovenskiVuk 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)!
He was a Serb who lived in Slav majority lands. Just because nowadays it's Albania, it doesn't make him Albanian. It's the same as if Serbs would claim Constantine the Great.
@@SlovenskiVuk 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.
@@strahinjadamnjanovic3553 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.
@@miloshcvetkovic8568 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.
@@miloshcvetkovic8568 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.
@@miloshcvetkovic8568 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)!
@@miloshcvetkovic8568 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.
@@miloshcvetkovic8568 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.
@@miloshcvetkovic8568 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)!
Scanderbeg deserves more attention, he is definitely in the top 10 military tactical masterminds of all Middle Ages. His remarkable victories are studied to this day. Edit: Ok maybe top 3 is exaggerated but top 10 for sure.
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.
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)!
My Brother-in-law is Albanian and I have visited Albania five times now. On one occasion we (family) with Ahmet as our guide visited this big castle at the top of this mountain where there is a museum ( also a nice open market there with lots of good stuff) which has all the historical statue and artefacts relating to this mans events. It was amazing, it looked out across a massive plain where they would of seen the Ottoman's coming from miles away. Apparently the Albanians were throwing boulders down from this point killing thousands.
“The story is that Stefan Dushan drive out the the Albanian Catholics from this district and settled it with Serbs,reducing reducing he releasing Albanian Catholics to the occupation of Shepard. After the Turks arrived, many of the Serbs fled or were killed, but Albanian inhabitants drifted back and reoccupied their former homelands. “When the patriarch of Peć, Arsenius,finally evacuated the district with his flock and feld to Hungarian lands offered him by the emperor, the Serbs in fact lost all hold and right to Kosovo.” - Robert Elsie Great Albanologist this one
@@The.steppenWolf “the Albanian holds the fixed belief that the land has been his from all time: the serb conquered him and ruled for a few centuries (?) and was driven out in 1389. Kossovo plain is Albanian; its borders are largely serb. From mitrovica to the then serbian frontier, the population is mainly serb. the town and environs of novibazar [novi Pazar] are largely Albanian; the sanjak of novibazar beyond the town is wholly and entirely serb. east of Prishtina, the land is more and more slavonic. of the vile treachery by which the serbs obtained Kossovo, I will tell you later.” Extract from the Resolution of the Founding Conference of the National Liberation Council of Kosovo and Metohia in the village of Bujan in the Gjakova Highlands on 31 December 1943 and 1 and 2 January 1944, published in Këshilli Populluer i Krahinës Autonome të Kosovës-metohis, 1943-1955 (Prishtina, 1955), p. 10.
My boy Gjergj was a goddamn "modern day" Alexander, except, he didnt inherit his fathers' profesional army nor generals. He didnt do it to conquer lands, although he could have; he was a true wise-warrior-king, almost a philosopher but not much remains from him, as it was destroyed either by the Ottomans, other thieving "nations" or treacherous albanians. What remains is a glorious history and sense of pride, permeated throughout history to this very day. Bless you, Gjergj Kastrioti.
I really hope you guys make part 2, it’s so nice to see the story from a neutral point. For example, growing up in Albania we weren’t taught that he didn’t support his family’s rebellion. I get his reasons, but it’s still negative enough to be left out.
@@SlovenskiVuk 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.
@@SlovenskiVuk 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..
@@SlovenskiVuk 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)
This will be an amazingly epic series! Cannot wait to see Part 2! Thank you very much Knowledgia for this amazing documentary about the Albanian hero Skanderbeg!🇦🇱
@@music.of.kosovo1213 ne sy te otomaneve tradhti quhej dhe ne fakt i tradhtoj sepse e kuptoj se po luftonte per anen e gabuar tradhtoj magjupet e qelbur per shqiptaret e tij❤🇦🇱🇽🇰🖤
@@carllucas89 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.
A real life legend who lost not even one battle every time he had to fight the ottomans in the open field, even though he was outnumbered every time . If Skanderbeg had united forces with Hunyadi , I don’t think the Ottomans would have had any chance against the two best generals of the time. The story of Skanderbeg it’s like the story of David against Goliath , it’s just unbelievable how he managed to be undefeated for 25 years, no wonder even his enemies admired him.
As a Turk, I respect Skaderbeg. All of her victories are due to her knowledge of the tactics of the Ottoman armies. It is also an important factor that the Ottoman pashas initially underestimated Skanderbeg. In addition, the more important threat for the Ottomans at this time came from the Timurs, Mamluks, Aq Qoyunlu and Qara Qoyunlu in the east. In fact, Skanderbeg was only one of the dozens of rebels at that time for the Ottoman Empire. III. Vlad (Vlad Dracula) also created a lot of problems at the same time for the Ottomans. And what a coincidence, he is the national hero of Romania. :)
@@Yarisken12 In the Battle of Ankara against Timurid Empire in 1402, the Ottoman army was between 80,000 and 100,000 people. There were also Ottoman's satellite kingdoms like Stefan Lazarevic the Serbian king, who joined the war with an army of 20,000 men, on the side of the Ottomans. So you can calculate Ottoman's army.
Hollywood does not make movies for the ottoman empire, I don't know what kind of alliance this is but the only thing I know is that they don't want to represent the ottomans as the evils that they were.
When people say Skanderbeg is a traitor, they say that the Turks took him from his homeland by force, so it was not betrayal (in a way they are right). but when armenius is called traitor they don't say anything
But, who says that he isn't a traitor? By definition what he did is nothing short of betrayal to the turks. Also if anything at all was learned from teutoburg incident is to never trust a hostage. That is to say that being a traitor doesn't diminish his greatness and the great things he did in the slightest just like arminius did with what little he had to work with, and i say this as a roman history fan.
@@ktlau-ph3bi I like the Roman Empire too. What they do in the cultural and architectural fields as much as they do in the military field affects me a lot. But when Rome took the children and moved to the army, no one said anything, but when the Ottomans did the same thing, they immediately said things like the devil, the murderous ruler against the Turks.
@@nekjevecnasrbijaisrbskirod Hello, I've never spoken to a Serbian before, if you don't mind me asking, how do Serbian history books describe the Turks? Also, Skanderbeg has always been described as Albanian, I've never heard of it being Serbian.
@@oguzemrekaya6453 Don't bother! Just Serbian LIES to cover up shame! Skanderbeg actually attacked and destroyed villages of Serbian ruler of that time Đurađ Branković for helping ottomans against the Crusaders. While Skanderbeg was holding fort in Albania, that scumbag vasal even lined up with the ottomans conquering Constantinople!
To all the Serbs and modern "Greeks" who claim that Skanderbeg was one of theirs....Please read the letter of Otranto! And then cry in silence, please!
I don't understand why do you celebrate Serbian medieval general now, you even destroyed the Serbian orthodox church in northern Albania in which he was merried.
Skanderbeg was one of the best general in history meanwhile Vlad was a useless physcho who get killed by Ottomans anyway. Today there is only a few Generals who fought against Ottomans and respected by Turks. Constantine🇬🇷(Last Empereor of Byzantine),Skanderberg 🇦🇱 and Jan Sobieski🇵🇱. Meanwhile most Turks dont even know who Vlad is. Only Romanians.
as a Turk i can easily say that '' Skanderbeg was a real martial genius'' He isn't a national balloon inflated by albanian nationalist but Vlad Tepes is just a psycho. Not a martial genius, good commander or something like that. Canonization of Tepes by Romanians is so pathetic.
I wouldn’t call a betrayal DUDES.... It was the most innocent patriotic move ever Well done.... If it wasn’t for him Albania would have been wiped off the map forever...... Only his name will Endure in the Land of eagles 🦅
He never betray no one he comes back to protect he's country and he's people, we love our country we love our flag we die if need to die for our country 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱
@@kasadam85 Its still kidnapping. They forcefully removed him from his parents and ordered him to fight wars he had no duty to fight. He was born as an Albanian and when he left the Ottoman military, it was all justified.
Skenderbeg's grandfather, Pavle Kastriotić, moved to Janjina in Epirus as a Serbian cephalopod. Skanderbeg's father, Ivan Kastriotić, was the prince of Epirus, who held Mat, Kroja, Mirdita and Diber, and unlike his father, he quickly learned Albanian from the local population. His mother, Vojislava, was a princess also of Serbian origin, daughter of Grgur Branković and grandson of the famous Serbian knight Vuk Branković. Some less reliable analyzes place it in the Tribald family , originally from Old Serbia. ;)
@@ДраганРадикин Skanderbeg's grandfather was Albanian and he founded the Kastrioti dynasty. Stop Slavicizing his name, he is Pal Kastrioti, named after Saint Paul. And Skanderbeg's father was Gjon Kastrioti, or in English, John Kastrioti, and he created the Principality of the Kastrioti family. His mother might have been: 1) Albanian, as stated in the memoirs of Gjon(John)Muzaka 2) Serbian, from Pollog 3) Bulgarian, possibly a princess. But still, Skanderbeg was Albanian, he spoke Albanian, and he fought for a united Albania, hence why the League of Lezha was held. Why did he raid Vuk Branković's domains if Vuk was his grand-father? See how stupid you sound?
"An example is the money donated by the Turkish government to build the biggest Mosque in Europe at the central Skenderbeg square in Tirana-the Ethem Beu Mosque, which before it’s closure in February 2018, had a capacity of no more than 60 people to now enable four and a half thousand people to pray at the same time once its finished. Next to this Mosque, in 2017, during the celebration of Kurban Bajram, at the Skenderbeg square, the monument of Skenderbeg WAS FENCED by large screen panels provided by the Albanian Islamic Community. The disappointment culminated with comments of the Albanian Imam Armand Aliu on the media; stating that Albanian Muslims SHOULD NOT BE PROUD OF SKENDERBEG who ruthlessly fought Islam" Perparim Xhaferi, 2019 "Albanian National Identity in the twenty-first century: Escaping from the Ottoman heritage?", University of Sydney, pp.198
He never betrayed them, he simply went back to defend his people.
This video isn't correct because Skenderbeg has been Serbs ,isn't not true history about him. His father's iz name Jovan Serb.!!!
@@dragojetomovic5609 hahaha u a r dumm
@@skendertahiri389 ja sam potomak Skenderbega. Možete lagat i izmisljat i krasti tuđe licnosti ali ne moze se to odrzat. Do you no where is Repoš day?? Son off Skenderbeg?? In monastery Hilandar!!! How is Abanian day in Serbian manastir??? Hhhhaaaaa
To defend Christians.
Killed Muslims (including his own Albanian Muslims).
@@dragojetomovic5609 japans are serbs too 🤦
I was in Albania and Kosovo last summer, and they have statues of him in both Tirana and Prishtina. I'm sure the Albanians will be glad to know that, as an American, it was my first trip outside of the US and I really enjoyed it.
@universi3815correction former Ottoman Turkish lands.
My friend,ur always welcomed in albania🇦🇱🤝🇺🇸
Thanks from your best ally . Long live USA from Albania
@@bodoor8172 LOL what?
You are welcome
World class Warrior and very intelligent politician. No one ever managed to unite Albanians like him. Eternal Glory upon Him.
LoL btw its just and pure coincidence he and his 9 brothers and sisters had Slavic or more correct Serbian names haha
@Flacko Pretty
according to Serbs and Greeks Gjergj name should have been Gjergjovic Kastriotvic and for Greeks Georgios Kastriotios 😂😂😂😂😂
soon they will claim to be Illyrians i the Slavic names and language
@@sotirzvanidjubre4109 Gjergj (Skanderbeg) = Albanian name.
Gjon (Skanderbeg's father) = Albanian name.
Pal (Skanderbeg's grandfather) = Albanian name.
Etc ...
You are implying that her mother may have been Serbian because she carried a Slavic name ...
( It means absolutely nothing, especially since Albanians at that time were Christian/Orthodox! )
The name "Voisava or Vojsava" is worn by a lot of Albanian women still today ...
Moreover this name "Voisava or Vojsava" is almost non-existent among Serbian women today ...
Then the name "Voisava or Vojsava" has a meaning in Albanian language (Illyrian):
Vaissa = Girl ...
( Which is by adding the suffix -va, becomes vaissa-va, -Vojsava )
In addition to that the first name Voisava, Vojsava is carried by a lot of Albanian women still today while Serbian women do not carry this name practically! (Look in UA-cam etc ... )
In addition to that the city of Polog (in North Macedonia currently), where
Skanderbeg's mother was born is still populated by a majority of Albanians today.
Then some of Skanderbeg's brothers and sisters had Slavic and Greek names...
Why ?
Answer =
What are the cultural names of the culture that dominates in Orthodoxy?
The Slavic and Greek!
Example :
Vlad III Basarab, nicknamed "the Impaler" who has a Slavic name, but he is not Slavic, he is Romanian / Vlach ...
He has a Slavic name because the dominant culture in the Orthodoxy is Slavic and Greek ...
(that's why we found Slavic or Greek names ... think about it. )
As in Islam the dominant culture for the names are Arabic and Turkish, it's simple...
The Muslim Albanians of today can have for example an Arabic or Turkish name, but it doesn't mean that they are Arabs or Turks ... it's just for the religion ...
@@sotirzvanidjubre4109 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.
@@sotirzvanidjubre4109 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.
It was not betrayal, it was just a man fulfilling his patriotic duty and fighting for his people.
Salute to Albania from Algeria.
🇩🇿 💚❤🤍❤🖤🇦🇱
Okay yes but it was literally betrayal. He was loyal to his people; he was a traitor to the empire, just like Arminius. Truly, the only good kind of treason.
Yhanks Algeria. Do not listen to this muslim turk. I am a mudlim myself but the one who wrote down is a silly turckik loser. Thanks again. Viva Algeria
@@ilirianbardhi7901 and thank you as well and salute to you and to all the Shqiptarët all over the world
@@markooss1400 and the shity Serv has spoken
@@ilirianbardhi7901 I'm not Serb but u r not ilirian too u r just sh.ty shqip
One of the few cases where even Turks respected. The guy rebelled and betrayed the Ottomans, but damn was he a tactical genius that won against increasing odds time and time again. At some point you just have to respect that.
kaboom
Thats why turks call him as Beg/Bey. Means sir,lord.
since when fighting for your country is called betrayal?
@@iskambillordu He wasn´t called Bey for betraying us tf, it was for when he was loyal to the ottomans
@@gentianmesonjesi22 Betraying the nation u fought before for is called treason, doesn´t matter what causation
Skanderbeg is the greatest patriot to ever live. He left all the goods he had in the ottoman empire for his motherland and for glory, his deeds are still remembered till this day, undoubtedly an inspiration for all of us today.
He is big based
I agree. He was a great serb fighting the ottomans. Albanians today are ottoman and american puppets, they have nothing to do with skanderbeg.
@@carllucas89 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.
@@carllucas89 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.
@@carllucas89 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)!
Not only Skenderbeg knew the Ottoman warfare but he adapted and improved light cavalry maneuvers even further when fighting against them. After his death some of his warriors became fearsome mercenaries in other countries of Europe and their tactics eventually led to the birth of famous military units such as the Hussars, which shaped the European warfare for centuries. Because of those mercenaries the medieval French would compliment someone who rode a horse exceptionally well saying "he rides like an Albanian".
The stradiotes where very effective during 16 th century
I love this guy. As an Albanian, I think he is a hero, but it is deeper than that… he was one of the greatest generals in history, and he is *still* so underrated. Like others said, I hope he gets his own movie.
he has his own movie. we made a movie for him under enver hoxha
@@ri_drz Yeah but he needs a big one like Hollywood - level. Albania with it's beautiful nature just imagine the quality of the movie. Skanderbeg should be played by James Belushi or James Biberi.
no . Dont let the dirty hands of amerikans touch our beautiful history . They made Alexander the great Gay and Achillees black . I prefer 1000 times to keep reading about Iskender bey than to see a western movie that portrays him politically correct . He was the greatest general of his century ,the Last Byzantine Bastion and National Hero of Albania ,i dont want west to touch him .
Balkan history must stay untouched by hollywood . Its too beautiful and great to be altered in their ways
@@romanvalkansproductions5376 Yea, woke culture would make him black anyway.
Fun fact: Skanderbegs first campaigns were in Anatolia and not in the Balkans.
He won every battle in Anatolia aswell.
battle name?
True, but he was there as general of sultan murad ii, he won battles against serbia as well.
He also won battles in Itlay none talks about that or hes early campains in Anatolia
The reasone he left back is because he had grown alot of trust from the sultans and other influencial people wanted to stop that and puted words in sultans head
So hes trust for scanderbeg grew less and less so scanderbeg was sad qnd left
@@sumax-nz1je yes i know.
He was 3 years in italy fighting the angevins for the king of naples
Based
also hello fellow gigachad
The video is wrongly titled. It should be " How did Skanderbeg not Betray his homeland?" .
I think thats wrong because of how we can look at stuff in modern day, he had pledged allegiance to the ottoman empire and then broken it. Heroic but still a betryal even if he was albanian it then would just be called treason which sounds a lot worse and is a lot worse they betryal
@@kevinsworldK.w69 Sultan betrayed him ,by occupying his father's lands!
What would you do if you were a emigrant in germany for example,and germans start a war with your native country?For which country would you fight?!
@@thelastknight5505 The one i converted to? Anyways if you did look around more back when this video was new you would see i specifically have said that the ottoman empire really was the one who betrayed him and btw ur example is bad
Exactly
Because this Chanel is be some Greek or serb
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LMAOAOAOA ALBANIA IS NOT SAFE U JUST WENT TO GOOD PLACES
@@80kalbanian28 ç'a po thua,mer pallosh?
@@80kalbanian28 Get educated
Albania is safe when you have no money :P just a joke. I like Albania, hello from Croatia ^^
@@80kalbanian28 Albania is safe as fuck, safer than most European places. My backpack got stolen in Barcelona not in Albania. and I almost got migged by thigs in New York, not in Albania.
Betrayed the Ottomans? How you can betray the enemy?
He's our Hero, our religion, our belief...our life...everything...We Albanians exist because of Him...❤
God bless Albanian people!
He actually fought for Ottomans and he even reverted into Islam , that's why he's called a betrayal.
@@yaksklolanbenim5309 Ottomans invaded albania, George Kastrioti was kidnapped and brainwashed...but one day GOD told him to return to motherland and liberate his people...and He did...that's why we called him our legendary Hero!❤
@@Joe-sp2hj Wait. You really believe Skanderbeg is Albanian?
@@123trtoje2 🤣🤣
@@yaksklolanbenim5309 His name:Đurađ
Brother:Staniša
Father:Jovan
Mother:Vojsava
Son:Ivan
English historian Gibbon:He is related to the Serbian tribes in Montenegro.
After all, how he can be Albanian?
Visited a new pizza shop where the uniforms have 🇦🇱 . I spoke with the owner and the conversation quickly turned to Skenderbeg.
Lol , where was the pizza shop
Well, wear two bowties, one with the Albanian flag and the other with a picture of Skanderbeg. So there!
I've not seen anyone pick up this story until now. Spread the legacy of this amazing man. From what I've read there were two main causes for the betrayal. 1) Skanderbeg was loyal to the Sultan and the Sultan was loyal to Skanderbeg. This caused jealousy amongst other influential men at court who through intrigue managed to get the Sultan to doubt Skanderbeg. This change of heart led Skanderbeg to plan his exit. 2) His personal devotion to the Virgin Mary. Fun fact, the image he used to pray in front of after he returned to Albania now resides in the Vatican.
He was from a noble family pf north Albania. His father Gjon Kastrioti rebelled against ottomans, Sultan after defeated him got all his children to Istanbul so Gjon became a vassal of the Sultan Murad ll, Gjon Kastrioti before he got separated by his son, he said to him to remember that ottomans are enemy and never forget your roots, Gjon knew his son was special and he knew ottomans gonna do everything to assimilate him, Skanderbeg never forgot his father’s words and at the best opportunity he came back to his country and fought ottomans in epic battles becoming the national hero of Albania, christianity and all Europe and entering in the elite list of the best generals and tactician wars world ever known. Maybe he is the best defensive general world ever has known.
Skanderbeg wasn't really that religious, he was considered an infedel by both the pope and the sultan, Skanderbeg was also a muslim when he was with the ottomans, he reconverted to orthodoxy and later to catholicism. In one of his swords if has written: "libehadur Allah iskander beg" which mean champion of Allah Skanderbeg
@Ahmet Sakızcı "and stuff..."🤡 when you can't even make a proper argument you add and stuff while the guy above you made a whole ass paragraph, i understand man you're a turk and your country is too embarrassed to teach you proper history about a guy who defeated your empire for 25 years straight
@Ahmet Sakızcı you should probably tell that to over 12 countries that have made him a statue, damn those must be some dumbass countries trynna 'overglorify' a foreign leader right? Tell me, how many sultans are respected worldwide like Skanderbeg is? How many Albanian generals did the ottoman empire have that contributed to your victories. And the fact that you're a history fan doesn't make you a history expert at all, and yeah i'm pretty sure yall don't know much about him in Turkey since you buried his work down in history, yall don't wanna remember how you embarrassingly lost, well i can't blame you a man with a tiny army deafeating the biggest empire at the time, boyyy that must be shameful af for your history
@Ahmet Sakızcı Absolutely malding 500+years after the man's death for causing at the very least around 200k casualties with an army multiple times smaller
Albanians love their their land,more than their own life!
I had the pleasure to meet a lot of them,they are the most bravest people on earth 🌎
Much love and respect
"Albanians love their land" hahahah yes, thats why most of them lives in Germany, Switzerland and Scandinavia.
Really?
That's why you resisted Islam? Oh the dominant religion is Sunni.
That's why you fought for your independence? Oh the Balkan league treaty liberated you.
That's why you fought the invading fascist Italy? Oh you signed to be an Italian puppet.
Yes you love it so much!
@@sprc155 Albanians was always poor and alone in their history
Unlike serbia and greece helped by russia and other western countries
@@prishtinedardania5255 its called diplomacy. Something you never had and you don't have till today. Maybe if you work diplomacy you can develop more and have friends. But maps of greater Albania are more appealing right??
@@sprc155 i remember during Enver Hoxha in 1959 when greece attacked south Albania but you turned back in 2 days
And remember the 1821 when Arvanites liberated you they was the bravest warriors in greek army
The most interesting thing is Moisi Golemi's betrayal. Moisi Golemi (Moisi Shkodra) was one of the best army commanders during that time in Albania, but as a person, he was a soft heart person. His idea was for Skanderbeg to stop the resistance and that it's better for Albanians to do what all of the Balkan people did (bow down to the sultan), he thought that was a better decision for the Albanians who were starving because they didn't have the economy to fight against the biggest empire in the world at the time. He saw that other Balkan people were getting their religious and ethnic rights from the Ottoman Empire and thought that Albanians are going to be assimilated by the end of this war. He joined the Ottoman empire to stop Skanderbeg from this war of destruction and self-destruction too. Obviously Skanderbeg didn't agree to that as he would think that he is the Albanian king and that his kingdom should never be conquered and tried to get help from the Pope and Naples. In the battle of Oranik (the most violent battle of them all) Moisi Golemi led an Ottoman army (15.000) against the Skanderbegs army (10.000). In this battle an ottoman soldier named Ahimaz asked for a 1v1 duel and an Albanian soldier named Zaharia Gropa accepted the duel and easily cut Ahimaz's head off. After that Moisi challenged Skanderbeg in a 1v1 duel and when Skanderbeg walked in the middle of the field Moisi ordered the attack (trying to get Skanderbeg killed) the battle started and Skanderbeg fought in the front line of the army. After 2 hours of fighting Moisi escaped after losing 10.000 soldiers ( 2/3 of the army) while Skanderbeg lost only 1000. Moisi Golemi later regret the betrayal and asked Skanderbeg for mercy, Skanderbeg accepted him back in his army. Moisi Golemi was later captured by the Ottoman forces during the battle of Ohrid (9000 Albanians+1000 Venetians against 14.000 ottomans) Albanians won the battle but 12 of skanderbegs close people were captured (Including Skanderbegs nephews and Moisi Golemi). Skanderbeg tried to pay the Sultan for their release, but the sultan executed them in public by ripping their skin alive (they all had a painful death). Skanderbeg took their revenge (based on the Albanian kanun) during the siege of Kruje in 1466 by killing Ballaban Bardhi (Baderi) and close to 30 thousand ottoman soldiers (most of them after capture).
Wow i red two books of Skanderbeg but i lost these informations, flmn! 😊
Well...I love your knowledge and interest in history but damn....This is too long for comment section.You should make a video.Best wishes :)
Albanian nation is fabricated in 19th century
@@MessUrnebes well...Here we go again.Lets just try to kill eachother again.Juhey :)
The history has shown that Mousi Golemi was not wrong. Albania was the only country who was ruled with an iron hand and got fully assimilated, with no albanian language rights, no religion and no investments. Sometimes is good to know when to give up a fight
Skanderbeg, probably the most underrated warrior in human history. Albanian history seriously deserves more global recognition. I mean, how does a man manage to remain victorious in all his battles, despite being so vastly outnumbered and less well equipped.
Skanderbeg was a serb fighting the ottomans
@@carllucas89 Everything is Serb...
Btw why are you here?
@@albanianillyrian2797 because skanderbeg was a serb fighting the ottomans
@@carllucas89 bruh why do i see you in every albanian related video. Do you have a life?
Direction Sveta gora ATHOS
I love history, I did not know anything about this. I thought it was done very well, looking forward to more history insights.
Thank you
Kako se zove familija albanskih mobilnih telefona?
MOBITELj
Hahahaahaha xD
@@miloshcvetkovic8568 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.
@@miloshcvetkovic8568 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.
@@miloshcvetkovic8568 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)!
One of the best medieval generals of Europe also kudos to Mehmed the Conqueror he fought various stars of his era Skanderbeg, Stephen III, Uzun Hasan, Vlad, Hunyadi,...
Based
He also put the final nail into the coffin of the Byzantine rump state.
Add Nikola Zrinski to the list
@@bozidarnovak Why Zrinsky and Mehmed didnt even live in the same period there are almost 3 decades in between 😂
@@barbiquearea you're right on that fact. I thought of those turkish-european/balkan conflicts
He was taken as hostage; He did His honoured duty regard to the fatherland.
Glory glory to Him !
Skenderbeg really outsmarted the ottomans into thinking he will fight for them a true mastermind
He did fight for them and won many wars though
@Albanian Crusader ♰ There was no albania back then it was serbian land
@@carllucas89 shut up u betrayed every Balkan nation during those wars...now u try to steal other's glory to make it urs because u people married ur daughters to the Ottomans
@@carllucas89 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.
@@carllucas89 The League of Lezhë (Albanian: Lidhja e Lezhës), also commonly referred to as the Albanian League (Albanian: Lidhja Arbërore), was a military and diplomatic alliance of the Albanian aristocracy, created in the city of Lezhë on 2 March 1444. The League of Lezhë is considered as the first unified independent Albanian 🇦🇱 country in the Medieval age, with Skanderbeg as leader of the regional Albanian chieftains and nobles united against the Ottoman Empire.
Source : Babinger, Franz (1992). Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time. Princeton University Press. p. 54. Archived from the original on 18 May 2016. ... a solid military alliance was concluded among all the Albanian chieftains along the Adriatic coast from southern Epirus to the Bosnian border.
Facts - Scanderbeg has never lost a single battle Skanderbeg fought 29 battles against the Ottomans and 4 battles against Venice and won them all 🔥🇦🇱💪.
He also fought a couple of battles in the neapolitan war of succession
@@dedafromhoti9864 The what? Direct me a link, please.
@@eee22-e8d en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skanderbeg%27s_Italian_expedition
@Vard X Thank you!
He also rode a Dragon and landed on the Moon.
He is a man of honour which never turned his country and land for anything he was given to and Albania are proud of him and will Always be for us long we exist 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱😍
He have nothing incomon with modern albanians
🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷✊🏻
@@SERBIA1389SERBIA 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.
@@SERBIA1389SERBIA 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)!
Skenderbeg was serbian tho 😂😂
In one of the battles somewhere in Albania, some Ottoman soldiers asked other soldiers, if anybody had seen SKENDERBEG?
The other soldiers answered, if we saw SKENDERBEG we would be dead 💀
Robt Skanderbeu = Idiot
He killed also albanian Muslims but you are manipulated.
He was against ISLAM(only Religion) and not against turks.
At that time there were no "turks".
One week he was Muslim, next week Catholic, Muslim, orthodox,....
100% Kafir
And nationality is eitherway Haram because its arrogant...
You know someone is badass when his enemies have respect for him
Anlamadim???
@@illyrian3057 les turk on du respect pour Gjergj Kastrioti, et c’est normal il était trop fort … si Kastriot avait autant d’hommes que l’empire ottoman il serait le roi du monde à cette époque
He was the greatest General the Ottoman Empire trained. He pretty much gave them a little bit of their own medicine. They wanted his head for almost 30 years. He also had great Albanian warriors with him. After his death Albania was able to defend themselves for almost 10 years 😉💪.
U right im sure kastrioti want join ottomans but I’m sure he was brainwashed from Vatican
"Respect", is the euphemism used by your enemies when they actually are afraid as hell of you.
So happy that our national hero through these years is getting more and more attention! Thank you for the amazing job you’re doing for the community!
@val milos Gjergj
I have the impression that unfortunately it failed, in the end they converted you 😶🌫
@@alessandroastival It failed 10 years after his death when Venice took over and couldn't hold on for much longer. After that thousands of Albanians fled to Italy. Due to a lack of Priests the majority of Albanians converted to islam due to higher taxes for non muslims and being treated as second class citizens. but don't forget only around 2/3 of Albanians converted and nor Islam or any other religion for that matter are a part of Albanian identity.
@@bletrick3352 hmm 🧐
@@alessandroastival In the end we are still of Albanian culture (language, dance, dress etc). This is our victory.
Guy is a real life actual hero. Respect from a Turk
Hero of what?
@@JustMe-yy7uc The hero of the resistance and not acknowledging defeat.
The hero of the most ancient people of the Balkan Peninsula who saved Europe from the Turks
@@fatherofhistory
He was also a traitor.
He betrayed the ones that raised him.
Plus he killed his own people for religion believe.
@@JustMe-yy7uc He was literally sent there against his will, also he was always a Christian by soul
@@resurrection3D No, that's not true.
The real story is;
His father send him to Istanbul so he can train.
His father even complain why the Otomans are not taking his son sooner.
Anyway, they accepted his son,train him for many years (free of charge).
After he became big,he betraid the Osmans.
Made a deal with Vatican,changed the religion to Catholic (but before he accepted Islam he was orthodox) and is gone back to Albania to try stop Osmans taking over EU.
Grandissimo Skanderbeg 🇮🇹❤️🇦🇱
Italy betrayed us
🇦🇱❤🇮🇹
Robt Skanderbeu = Idiot
He killed also albanian Muslims but you are manipulated.
He was against ISLAM(only Religion) and not against turks.
At that time there were no "turks".
One week he was Muslim, next week Catholic, Muslim, orthodox,....
100% Kafir
And nationality is eitherway Haram because its arrogant...
Thats the reson they where 400 years ottoman and i see so many albainian muslims there
Much respect to Skenderbeg ( Iskenderbey). He fought against the mighty Ottoman Armies and won every single time. You have to give him the well deserved credit !! From a proud Ottoman Turk..
Thanks.
@@ЂурађКастриот-ю2э Lol Skanderberg was Albanian not Serbian stop stealing Albanians history 😂😂😂😂
@@fuckcorona5218 He was Serb who ruled Albania.
@@ЂурађКастриот-ю2э Bruh everyone knows he was Albanian he is more turkish than he is Serbian because he was in Ottoman when he was young :)
@@fuckcorona5218 Skanderbeg family names, father Ivan mother Vojislava, brothers Repoš, Staniša, sisters Vlajka, Mamica, Mara, Jela, Andjelina all Serbian Slavic names and not Albanian or Turkish. Oh and Skanderbeg's father and brother were buried in Serbian monastery Hilandar :)
HBO, Netflix or Amazon should make a series about his life.
I hope too
Nah. They would ruin our national Hero with their western propaganda and agenda. Skanderbeg should be studied and that's it. He doesn't need a movie.
There are more intresting events than Albanian war🤣
@@wolf5329 Kosovo?
@@giorgijioshvili9713 Im not a Serb
To be able to stand against the ottoman empire who at the time was a rising superpower is simply astonishing. This was the time when the whole Europe was shaking and afraid of an Ottoman invasion deep into Europe. But this genius from this small place so underfunded and outnumbered many times over was able to held the ottomans back. He gave the whole Europe hope that the ottomans can be defeated.
Kako se zove familija albanskih mobilnih telefona?
MOBITELj
Hahahaahaha xD
You are right he was a genius, but dont forget that he used guerilla tactics in the mountain against conventional army. Its very hard to win such a battle for a conventional army. Like the Habsburgers who fought against the Swiss in the Alps and lost all the battles.
Yet Skanderbeg is a military genius. No doubt.
@@hanifitasova519 His most famous battle is "The Battle of Albulena" where he fought 80,000 Turks with a 10,000 allied Albanian army. To note, he fought them in the night, when the Turks were resting and he won. He has many more victories while being down 1:2 / 1:3 in an open field battle (like his campaign in Macedonia, attacking Ohrid and other cities) and were still won. There is a reason that he is a good military general, because he also attacked, he didn't camp and entrench his forces in any fortification, rather than that used every logical tactic to create chaos against enemy forces.
To note, he even arrived in Italy, unknown territory for him and won every single battle there in behalf of his allies.
He not only gave hope to the rest of europe, but he gave them time by holding them back and weakening them massively. Therefore time to develop and become strong enough to defend themself. Thats why in Vienna they were able to finally defeat the ottomans and eventually destroy their dreams of conquering europe.
But you know how europe thanked Albania. By abandoning and forgetting them and at the end even by dividing their lands.
Their is an old saying in albanian because of that: Moj evrop shtrig e vjeter - Oh Europe you old witch
If it wasn’t because of Albaninas and their leader Skenderbeu,almost all of europe would be conquered by ottomans.When Skenderbeu died Sultan Mehemd II said “Europe lost it’s shield and sword”❤️
Can’t believe Hollywood hasn’t made a movie out of our nation hero. He really deserves a movie like Alexander the Great. It’s very sad that he was left alone while asking the Vatican for help.
@@sorcierenoire8651 lmao, whitewash? Trust me, today is racewashing in movies very probably, but whitewashing it is maybe in 1/5 cases. It’s more probably that they will make from him transgender asian fighting for social justice
@@grimnoob893 you mean like the Greek movie 300? Damn.
@@sorcierenoire8651 well Albanians are white
@@grimnoob893 😂😂😂
Please no, Hollywood would bastardise him and the proper history
Our Albanian brothers where some of christianity most fearsome worriors without a doubt, respect to the people and their history from the UK!
@Albanian Crusader ♰ dude any nation that is united can face anyone
@Albanian Crusader ♰ not forced, but by choice. We are and were proud to be Muslim Alhamdoulilah
@@arbmustafa5571 By choice... to escape bad living standarts and high taxes :b ...
@@arbmustafa5571 You're not even Albanian lol, Ottomans essentially blackmailed other populations to convert to Islam due to enormous taxes and oppression. If you study the history of the Balkans under Ottomans, you'll find that the biggest rate of crypto-christianity (secret christians) was in Albania. Even today barely any Albanians are genuinely religious.
@@albinh.3149 you think? Than why were Jews rich in the empire and also had high positions?
Proud to be Albanian.. Skanderbeg is not appreciated enough as athleta Christi but he saved Europe from ottoman invasion for 25 years.. A tactical genius ❤️
Robt Skanderbeu = Idiot
He killed also albanian Muslims but you are manipulated.
He was against ISLAM(only Religion) and not against turks.
At that time there were no "turks".
One week he was Muslim, next week Catholic, Muslim, orthodox,....
100% Kafir
And nationality is eitherway Haram because its arrogant...
And you cant be proud for sth you havent done sth... you were born thats it Qa pobon
How stupid are people to think that he betrayed the Ottomans? He simply quit his job and went back home. Quitting your job is not betrayal. He had nothing in common with the ottomans and that showed in the battlefield. He had different blood, different heart, different brain and different culture from ottomans.
You have no concept of how Empires work. The Ottomans werent purely Turk they were mixed. The Empire was fighting for Ottomans (including Albanians). He wanted his own people to have their own land instead of being apart of an empire and hence betrayed the empire that gave him everything.
@@3three3 you must be taking illegal drugs!!! I don’t care what you want to call it and you can twist it any way you like it to make you feel better. He did kick ottoman ass like no one ever did. No ottoman ever succeeded to conquer Albanias despite 500 years of attempts. He simply just chopped up ottomans/Turks to pieces.
Respect for the national hero of Albania.
Kako se zove familija albanskih mobilnih telefona?
MOBITELj
Hahahaahaha xD
Đurađ Kastriot, pravoslavac, Srbin
@@tutabugarin4410 Yes yes, George Washington was a serb, Durad Washimgtonvić, John Cena was also a 1001% Serb chetnik, his real name was Jovan Cenović. Zivella Crbijee 🇸🇰💪🏿
@@tutabugarin4410 sulltan sulejmanoviç srtonk orthodog srbin 🇦🇷💪🏽💪🏽
@@tutabugarin4410 get a sea lol
How did Skanderbeg fight the Ottomans? He was raised by the Ottoman Army, learned their tactics and skills. Got his name from the Turkish name for Alexander (Iskender) and Beg (Lord) = Skanderbeg. Became a traitor and is now a national Icon. Which is good, every Nation needs a strong Icon. He is one for sure.
Well said
Well. He was Talented too. He didnt betray the Ottomans. He stood loyal to his Family.
yeah and you knew his tactics as well. anyways iskender is not turkish its arabic and beg is of persian origin. also, skanderbeg didnt even speak turkish, he spoke albanian latin and persian.
@@LABWARRIOR-ho4zd Beg/Bey is of Persian origin ? hahahaha
Skanderbeg reminds me of arminius.
great hero of albania indeed, greetings from croatia :D
5:02 - 5:10
It was 1443, because at 28th of November 1443, Scanderbeg raised the Albanian flag at his castle in Kruja. That's why even Albanian proclamation of independence happened in 28th of Novermber 1912.
Finally someone mentioned all albanians nobles family like, dukagjini, gropa, muzaka, thopia! I will ask you to do another documentary about Ali pasha tepelena!
Robt Skanderbeu = Idiot
He killed also albanian Muslims but you are manipulated.
He was against ISLAM(only Religion) and not against turks.
At that time there were no "turks".
One week he was Muslim, next week Catholic, Muslim, orthodox,....
100% Kafir
And nationality is eitherway Haram because its arrogant...
We are waiting for the part 2!
@Dark Eaglez Greeks and Albanians are historical brothers, not just geographiclly but also geneticlly, being the only 2 last surviving paleo balkan people with the last surviving paleo balkan languages and almost identical genetics.
The Serbian propaganda machines broke this brotherhood.
We Albanians shed blood for the independence of Greece and today majority of Greeks hate us due to the fact in the late 19th and early 20th century alot of nationalism rose throughout the balkans and the Greeks saw the Muslim Albanians as enemies and the Christian Albanians as Greeks and then called the Serbs "Orthodox Brothers" when historiclly Serbs have always assaulted Greece and were one of the main reasons the Byzantine Empire fell.
@Dark Eaglez Not all Greeks dislike Albanians - many I have met have Albanian friends themselves and have 0 hate against us. Some nationalists do, the same way it is the other way around. In the end, Albanians and Greeks have more reason to respect one another than continue with pointless hate and accusations.
In this case, he apparently liked the video and didn't show any hostility - let's appreciate and respect that.
This is the second time, I find my comment gone (dare I say, deleted?) despite the fact that I'm saying something extremely similar to the response-comments below. Anyways, third times the charm. I'm going to write it again as a seperate comment to this one, to see if both will disappear (again).
@Dark Eaglez Greeks and Albanians share a genetic similarity to the point that it start to be idiotic to consider them anything else other than the same group of people just with the use of a different language each. The great powers have their reasons to make Albanians and Greeks forget they were mostly allies throughout their common history (if not even brothers as we implied above) and benefit for making us think we should hate each other. Sadly, after a century of seperation, this hate has grown large between us, but a true patriot knows his history and knows his historical allies/brother nations. Therefore, a true Greek patriot and a true Albanian patriot, both would know of each other in a positive light and would be proud of one another's history and national heroes. Know I don't know the OP's opinion of this, but I hope he is of similar viewpoint on this issue.
It Is what comes with the package that Is not liked.
I read about Skanderbeg few months ago, when I was looking for inspiration for my own fantasy setting (Custom MTG set), I think it's a shame that history of Balkans is ignored by so many.
Piu grande della storia di impero otomano e piu grande di balcane , era il re dell epiro dei Iliri Albanesi
Skanderbeg is David against Goliath.
He had only 3000 soldiers against a military superpower, that's why he used only maneuvers.
One of the greatest Albanian heroes.. Respect from Bosnia 🇧🇦🤝🇦🇱
He was the Serb though, so thanks for the respect. It would be the same as if Serbs would claim Constantine the Great to be Serbian hero.
@@SlovenskiVuk 😂😂 Classic Serbian propaganda .. Genghis Khan was also a Serb, right ?? 😂
@@SlovenskiVuk 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..
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..
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)
I hope you cover the Battle of Albulena soon. Albanian army was outnumbered 8:1 and they WON.
Not only were they outnumbered.
But the Ottoman army was lead by Skanderbegs traitorous nephew Hamza Kastrioti who knew all of Skanderbegs tactics and Skanderbeg did a masterclass of a strategy that Hamza had no idea of and completly crushed the Ottomans.
Numerous scholars mentioned the battle of Albulena as the greatest victory of Skanderbeg.
@@gigasigma8373 The battle of Albulena was more like a slaughter than a battle!
Skanderbeg attacked the camp and he had villagers playing the drums to create an effect, so ottomans believed they were outnumbered!
Hamza knew this was his strategy, but he couldn't convince the ottomans who panicked and fled the field. It is believed that more than 30.000 ottomans died or got captured that day!
"It is said that when Skanderbeg's mother, Vojsava, became pregnant with him, she saw in a dream that a dragon was born so large that it covered the whole of Epirus and Arberia (Albania). bloodied himself, while holding his tail in the sea, on the borders of the Venetian state. "
- By Marin Barletti "
Well he was part or the Dragon Order
Like Milos Obilic, Vlad The Impaler, Stefan Lazarevic aswell as many others.
Besides Stefan Lazarevic who had to fight alongside Sultan Bayazid because his sister was married to the Sultan and was technically a prisoner in the Ottoman palace.
Milos Obilic - pretended to defect, Assassinated Murad I.
Vlad the Impaler - taken as a boy, was released then defected and waged war against the Ottomans.
Skanderbeg - taken as a boy, defected and waged war against the Ottomans.
There was a similar pattern amongst these guys.
I think it has got to do with the albanian(illyrian) mythology that belive that some great figures were dragons like skanderbeg for example
@@illyrian9973 his mother was serbian and his father greek
Obama’s mother was also a Serb and father a Greek
@@ariancitaku2964 i didnt know that
Can’t wait for part 2! Thank you for making this. I’m a proud follower of this channel
Thanks for the Vid, We’ve been waiting for a while 🇦🇱❤️
We will never forget our valiant ancestors who fought for the freedom of our people.
⚔🇦🇱🦅
Majority of high ranking state officials of Ottoman Empire were Albanians. Even 5 million Albanians live in Turkey today and some of them are government officials today.Çevik Bir was an Albanian ex-general of Turkey.
@@kuykasamjoktar6191 cevik bir isnt albanian lol
@@thekratosmeatrider He is an Arnavut(Alabanian) from Buca,Izmir province.
@@kuykasamjoktar6191 and even the governor of Egypt from ottoman empire was an albanian
@@kuykasamjoktar6191 Yes.
The Arnavut (🇦🇱) have contributed enormously in the Ottoman Empire and also in Turkey today ...
Many Albanians were recruited into the Ottoman Devşirme and Janissary with 42 Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire being of Albanian origin ( ... )
Malcolm 2002, p. 82. "Modern historians would also think it necessary to refer to the many examples of cooperation (sometimes to mutual advantage) between inhabitants of the Albanian lands and their foreign rulers - above all, in the case of the Ottomans, with their innumerable soldiers and officials of Albanian origin.
Example (Statesmen, revolutionary, generals, notables or ruling families of Albanian origin) :
- Lala Shahin pacha (first Beylerbey of the Ottoman Empire, governor of Rumelia).
- Lala Mustafa pacha defeated the Venetians in Famagusta (Cyprus)
- Mehmed Pasha Arnavud, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire.
- Köprülü, an important Turkish family of Albanian origin of which FIVE members were Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire from 1656 to 1710 and in Turkey until today.
- Fazil Ahmet pacha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire.
- Mustafa Hussein, Grand-Vizier of the Ottoman Empire.
- Mehmet Ali, vice king of Egypt, founder of an Albanian dynasty that reigned for nearly 150 years, including the last king of Egypt, Farouk I.
- Mustafa Kemal said, Atatürk, statesman founder of modern Turkey (having Albanian origins)
Etc...
Famous architect of the Ottoman Empire of Albanian origin:
- Sinân Mimar built the most beautiful mosque of Istanbul (Süleymaniye, between 1550 and 1557), the Shehzâde mosque of Istanbul, the Selîmiye mosque of Edrine (his masterpiece), the white mosque (Yeni Djami) and nearly 360 other monuments.
- Sedef Qar Mehmet Biçakci of Elbasan, architect of the Hyppodrome or Atmeydan Mosque.
(System of aqueducts of Istanbul built by several Albanian architects)
- Mehmet Mustafa Agha and Hoxha Kasem built the Valid Sultaniyé Mosque in Galata (Istanbul -1873).
Etc ...
Source : Albanie (Histoire et langue) ou l'incroyable odyssé d'un peuple préhellénique (p.41), Mathieu AREF.
Many of the best fighters in the sultan's elite guard, the janissaries, were conscripted as young boys from Christian Albanian families, and high-ranking Ottoman officials often had Albanian bodyguards.
Source : Raymond Zickel and Walter R. Iwaskiw (1994). "Albania: A Country Study ("Albanians under Ottoman Rule")". Retrieved 9 April 2008.
Besides that there are millions of people of Albanian (European) origin in Turkey.
The number of people of Albanian origin is about 5 million (or more)
Sources :
- 1 Yenigun 2009, p. 184. "Turkey contains 5-6 million Albanians (more than in the Balkan area)"
2- Saunders 2011, p. 98.
3- Deliso 2007, p. 38
Fun fact: in Romanian, Skanderbeg's name is also the word used for armwrestling. The sport is also called "brat de fier"(iron arm), which was apparently a nickname of his at the time.
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(Minute 28.00 )
Skenderbeu is armwrestling with others to see how strong they are and decide on which position they will be placed into.
Maybe this really happened and thats from where the romanian name for armwrestling came from.
@@albinh.3149 Could be. Romania(Wallachia at the time) is pretty close to Albania and the region has always had close ties to the Balkans more than any other parts of Europe.
Skanderbeg , e stato espirato da Aleksandro Magno ..
Arm wrestling was a big thing in Albania at the time of Scanderbeg
Hungary too
There was never a Serbijan noble man joining the league of Lezhe, a Montenegrin noble man was in the league however even he was half Albanian!
Yes, there was only one half Albanian and half Montenegrin noble called Stefan Crnojeviç. His mother was an Albanian and he also married with an Albanian noblewoman, plus he dedicated his whole life to the Albanian strugle! He was more than half Albanian.
Even your surname is serbian krasnic. Y where turks 100 years ago and albanizaid a lot of serbian tribes. Crnojevici are serbs like balsici and y have them today so y can ask them if they are serbiams
@@NB-kq7lm that is an insult! My surname is pure Albanian. It can be traced back around thousand years back! Serbian surnames are made up names by adding a vic at the end they have no meanings! On the other hand Albanian surnames they all have meanings! There is no real Serbian surnames your language is slav!
@Natan good for you!
@Natan like I said early study careful those surnames and there are all this Albanians surnames in slav populations and greek ones, by millions! A surname in Albanian it explains it’s origin and meaning! In Slav language nothing you just add whatever behind and you are Slav or Greek!
In other words you can become Slav or Greek anytime but, you have to be born to be Albanian! This is were we almost lost our war for existence, losing population!
Fun fact:
Skanderbeg's greatest campaign wasn't against the Ottomans but the Italians and French.
When Alfonso the Magnanimous (Alfonso V of Aragon) conquered Naples, he stationed the largest army in all of Europe in Sicily in anticipation to launch a Crusade when the Pope gave the signal. This never came to pass but Skanderbeg got word about Alfonso's army in Sicily and since he was fighting the Ottoman War Machine all on his lonesome, he needed an insurance policy i.e. a strong ally.
He beseeched Alfonso to be his insurance policy and Alfonso heartily agreed and signed the *Treaty of Gaeta* .
Alfonso, despite not declaring outright war on the Ottomans, assisted Skanderbeg in all his needs (be it men, weapons, supplies etc...) Needless to say, they developed a strong friendship.
When Alfonso died, he left the Crown of Aragon to his brother (John II of Aragon) but left Naples to his *bastard* son; Ferdinand.
In short, Ferdinand wasn't accepted by the Neapolitan nobility and the Italian City-States as a whole. Pretty much the whole of Italy, alongside France, declared war on Ferdinand. Guess who came to his aid? Freaking Skanderbeg.
His first letter to Ferdinand was him expressing grief about Alfonso's death and the letter ended with: " *but however things may turn out I am the friend of virtue and not fortune* ."
Immediately that same year, Skanderbeg landed in Naples and swept the floor with the Italians and French.
Italians and French weren't a match for Skanderbeg. Ottoman armies were a real deal.
@@spirokaci Because he had much more support considering he had all of Aragon’s army behind him but against the Ottomans he didn’t have money or soldiers
@@madflaka4087 No! The truth is that ottoman military tactics and art of war were superior of the rest of Europe. Alfonso of Naples had an entire army behind him and still failed to win against french. For Skanderbeg wars he fought in Italy were a walk in park. Nothing to compare with ottoman punitive expeditions.
Why is it that the failures of the ancient Romans were never followed? Take a guy as a hostage then eventually give command post in your army never ends well
That's kind of the thing, though: usually it did end pretty well. We hear about the exceptions, but most of the time they managed to either turn their hostages, or sus out potential traitors before they can do any real damage. There's a reason why hostage-taking was standard practice around the world.
I absolutely love it when combat graphics are zoomed in. You guys do a really good job of portraying the battles
As Arvanit=(Albanian orthodhoks) from Greece we still celebrate may of 6 agios Georgios ..even if the Greek church doesn't like it..
We celebrate 6 May too in North Albania. We call it Shen Gjergj. My grandparents who didn't have the chance to go to school mention him as a superhuman. Like Skenderbeu has blessed this or has cursed that. He has cut that rock with his sword or has jumped from here to there with his horse. So mythology who has run for 500 years, despite that was all ottoman era, his myth has survived in people of Albania.
I really dont belive all you arvanit were completely orthodox albanians or tosks...I hail from northern tribes and i did dna test.I have alot of arvant relitives in greece..I actually was like wtf
U're not ArvanitIS. It's obvious that you are Albanian from the way u wrote ArvanitIS and orthodox.. Stop lying..
"Many Arvanites find the designation "Albanians" OFFENSIVE as THEY IDENTIFY NATIONALLY AND ETHNICALLY AS GREEKS AND NOT ALBANIANS."
"Arvanitis respondents IMIR's team spoke with, talked about Albanians WITH DISGUST..."
Hajdinjak Marko (2005). Don't want to live with them, can't afford to live without them: Albanian labor migration in Greece Archived 2015-07-01 at the Wayback Machine. Academic paper. International Center for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations (IMIR). pp. 8-9.
@@vangelisskia214 yet they worship scanderbeg who mentioned albania and his people as albanian..Imagine that pick and choose..We catholiks laugh so hard at the arvanties. Brag about how strong they are yet a catholik albanian killed botsari for money 😂.
Oh boy we need an anime or a serie about this, what a cliffanger
yes
Why anime? Anime is literally cringe
@@goldenrebel25 i loved Kingdom, wich shows the formation of modern China and many tactical stuff. Its way easier to do it with animation than actors
@@goldenrebel25 You haven’t seen the potential it has. I liked Vinland Saga, an anime about Skanderbeg would be a dream come true lol
@@goldenrebel25 LOL an Anime about Scanderbeg would be pure gold
Great can't wait for part 2 keep on making
Happy that this will be a 3 episodes series. The battle of Uje Bardha(white water) and basically every battle fought by the albanians lead by Skanderbeg is something worth to know. Uje bardha in particular is one of the most important battles of the medieval era from a tactical point of view and is a Must Study for every person studying military tactics. The albanian revolt is truly overlooked in history books and that's so sad, in Italy we owe so much to Skanderbeg yet we barely know him. I got interested in Skanderbeg thanks to my sister's fiancèe, who's an arberesh, a descendant of those albanians that fled to Italy after the death of skanderbeg and the ottoman conquest. Then started playing eu4, where Skanderbeg is rightfully the most broken ruler and general at the start date
Gonna play an albanian campaign rn, you got me pumped up
@Luka Perac To this day there are Skanderbeg descendants living in italy and spain and consider themselves albanian...... My sister's fiancèe is also albanian and his ancestors fought for Skanderbeg and fled to italy. Everything else i nationalistic bullshit with no historic basis
@Luka Perac 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.
@Luka Perac 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.
@Luka Perac 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)!
this video was great i hope this video gets to 10.000 likes
Finally our great hero gets some recognition. I hope you include the letter he wrote to the king of Taranto.
Btw he didn't convert to Catholicism but back to orthodoxy but still recognised the power of the Pope, mainly get help from then in crusades against the ottomans.
Also the zh in Lezhë is pronounced together similar to the sh sound but with voice. And the ë makes a schwa sound like the ö in many Germanic languages.
Its unclear if he reconverted to orthodoxy. Most sources tend to assume a catholic conversion.
I thought that everyone said "Zh" the Albanian way.
@burri jote2 Yeah it's not like you can use religion to further your geo-political interests. "Recognising the popes authority is what distinguishes catholics and the orthodox".
- I hope you're joking. Do you even know the great schism even happen# surly it was instigated by the Patriarch and the Pope but you do realise the sects have different dogmas and pretty much different structures overall.
As a turk, this is the most respectful rival
🤝🤝
Dont question why im not a nationalist screaming.
Respect to you
The irony is that Skanderbeg(hungarians calls Kasztrióta György) and Hunyadi János never met together agaist ottomans on battlefield.
Serbian Prince, Brankovic- ally of otomans, didn't allow Skanderbeg passing through serbian land to join Huniady.
So, serbs betrayed Christian forcës and helped otomans.
Because Serbs were supporting the Ottomans and didn't Albanians and Hungarians join forces.
I feel proud of this man
with this servant and protector of our Albanian lands and I am proud to be Albanian
🇦🇱🇦🇱 LONG LIVE ETHNIC ALBANIA 🇦🇱🇦🇱
After skenderbeg died many Albanians who didn’t want the ottoman rule fled to italy who are called arberesh and still have Kept their traditions and a very similar language with Albania today
I was waiting for this video greetings from an Albanian
Undefeated Undisputed Albanian 🇦🇱King!
That’s my hero who’s flag is carved in my heart ❤️
Nice, king of Albania is a Serb.
@@SlovenskiVuk 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.
@@SlovenskiVuk 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.
@@SlovenskiVuk 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)!
@@SlovenskiVuk hahahahahaahaha don't forget and Cristiano Ronaldo is Serbian real name Cristianov Ronaldovič lol😂😂😂😂😂
Scanderbeg and Dracula lived in same time period,but Dracula got mentioned more than him.
He did not betray the Ottomans, He just hugged his HOMELAND!!
🇦🇱Albanian Soul🇦🇱
Serbian soul 🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸
He was a Serb who lived in Slav majority lands. Just because nowadays it's Albania, it doesn't make him Albanian. It's the same as if Serbs would claim Constantine the Great.
@@SlovenskiVuk yeah serbs also claim great Alexander hahaha,Gjergj Kastrioti always Albanian, never slav🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱
@@SlovenskiVuk 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.
@@strahinjadamnjanovic3553 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.
Long time wait for this thank you 🙏 ❤️
Bravo, very professional. Well done.
Kako se zove familija albanskih mobilnih telefona?
MOBITELj
Hahahaahaha xD
@@miloshcvetkovic8568 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.
@@miloshcvetkovic8568 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.
@@miloshcvetkovic8568 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)!
@@miloshcvetkovic8568 ovde ste u pogrešnom odeljenju. Idite tamo gde su snimci o Radovanu Karadžiću ili Radku Mladiću.
>I think this guy's life needs a movie on it's own.
There's one from 1953, you can watch it with subtitles.
Anyway, great video. Thank you very much.
Thaks for showing everyone who is skanderbeg one of best generals that the world ever has
Kako se zove familija albanskih mobilnih telefona?
MOBITELj
Hahahaahaha xD
@@miloshcvetkovic8568 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.
@@miloshcvetkovic8568 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.
@@miloshcvetkovic8568 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)!
Scanderbeg deserves more attention, he is definitely in the top 10 military tactical masterminds of all Middle Ages. His remarkable victories are studied to this day.
Edit: Ok maybe top 3 is exaggerated but top 10 for sure.
nah
@@padisahemirhan757 You mad?
Yea he was a great mastermind but I won’t say top 3 because there were many generals better then him in their own respective timeline
Top 3 is a strong word but i get it ur Albanian hes the only great the that has event hapend to ur country.
@@Otis9598. Yeah "Mike Domey" seems very Albanian to me LOL
God: how many wins do you want ?
Skanderbag : YES
Ottoman Empire: *exist*
Albania: I‘m gonna do what‘s called a „Pro Gamer Move“
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.
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)!
Skenderbeg je Srbin!!!!!!!!
@@Universal.. copy and paste son are we? Skanderbeg was a serb fighting the ottomans
Best documentary i have seen so far..
My Brother-in-law is Albanian and I have visited Albania five times now. On one occasion we (family) with Ahmet as our guide visited this big castle at the top of this mountain where there is a museum ( also a nice open market there with lots of good stuff) which has all the historical statue and artefacts relating to this mans events. It was amazing, it looked out across a massive plain where they would of seen the Ottoman's coming from miles away. Apparently the Albanians were throwing boulders down from this point killing thousands.
“The story is that Stefan Dushan drive out the the Albanian Catholics from this district and settled it with Serbs,reducing reducing he releasing Albanian Catholics to the occupation of Shepard. After the Turks arrived, many of the Serbs fled or were killed, but Albanian inhabitants drifted back and reoccupied their former homelands. “When the patriarch of Peć, Arsenius,finally evacuated the district with his flock and feld to Hungarian lands offered him by the emperor, the Serbs in fact lost all hold and right to Kosovo.” - Robert Elsie
Great Albanologist this one
@@MH-jg6vk Not only Robert Elsie but also Miranda Vickers
@@MH-jg6vk of which book is that statement please?
@@The.steppenWolf “the Albanian holds the fixed belief that the land has been his from all time: the serb conquered him and ruled for a few centuries (?) and was driven out in 1389.
Kossovo plain is Albanian; its borders are largely serb. From mitrovica to the then serbian frontier, the population is mainly serb. the town and environs of novibazar [novi Pazar] are largely Albanian; the sanjak of novibazar beyond the town is wholly and entirely serb. east of Prishtina, the land is more and more slavonic.
of the vile treachery by which the serbs obtained Kossovo, I will tell you later.”
Extract from the Resolution of the Founding Conference of the National Liberation Council of Kosovo and Metohia in the village of Bujan in the Gjakova Highlands on 31 December 1943 and 1 and 2 January 1944, published in Këshilli Populluer i Krahinës Autonome të Kosovës-metohis, 1943-1955 (Prishtina, 1955), p. 10.
Skenderbeg is a a genius.. study his enemies' methods while "acting" like a loyal vessal until the time was right.
He was kept hostige and man does not know how strong or slippery he can get when forced to.
My boy Gjergj was a goddamn "modern day" Alexander, except, he didnt inherit his fathers' profesional army nor generals. He didnt do it to conquer lands, although he could have; he was a true wise-warrior-king, almost a philosopher but not much remains from him, as it was destroyed either by the Ottomans, other thieving "nations" or treacherous albanians. What remains is a glorious history and sense of pride, permeated throughout history to this very day.
Bless you, Gjergj Kastrioti.
I really hope you guys make part 2, it’s so nice to see the story from a neutral point. For example, growing up in Albania we weren’t taught that he didn’t support his family’s rebellion. I get his reasons, but it’s still negative enough to be left out.
Thank you so much for doing a video on Skanderbeg.
We Albanians are proud to have one of the greatest generals of all time as our national hero.
@@BejnKelso hahahah stop the cap he isnt djuradj so shut up
He is actually insulting Skenderbeu but ok.
@@music.of.kosovo1213 how is he insulting skanderbeg? He legit is glorifying his battles.
@@gigasigma8373 "betrayed ottomans". He's calling Skanderbeg a traitor for not staying with Ottomans.
Greatest generals of all time? Yeah,no...
I cant believe I never heard of this guy. Then again, anything that makes you proud of your European heritage isn't taught anymore.
@Albanian Crusader ♰ skanderbeg was a serb fighting the ottomans
@@carllucas89 Inferior complex. ALERT!
That should tell you how much work was done last two centuries ti hide albanian history in general, specially Skenderbeu and his battles.
@@carllucas89 Serbs never fought ottomans, what a joke 😅
@@adriangalabi7293 I couldn't agree more with that.
The Albanian Braveheart
The Serb. Just because he lived on what is nowadays Albania doesn't make him Albanian.
@@SlovenskiVuk his name is
Gjergj Kastrioti not Đorđe Petrović or Miloš Obrenović . Albanian to the bone my friend
@@SlovenskiVuk 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.
@@SlovenskiVuk 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..
@@SlovenskiVuk 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)
When will part 2 come out? It’s been over 2 years wtf
This will be an amazingly epic series! Cannot wait to see Part 2! Thank you very much Knowledgia for this amazing documentary about the Albanian hero Skanderbeg!🇦🇱
Pse nuk po e kritikoni që po e paraqet Skënderbeun tradhtar?
@@music.of.kosovo1213 ne sy te otomaneve tradhti quhej dhe ne fakt i tradhtoj sepse e kuptoj se po luftonte per anen e gabuar tradhtoj magjupet e qelbur per shqiptaret e tij❤🇦🇱🇽🇰🖤
Skanderbeg was a serb
@@carllucas89 Inferior complex.
A "Serb" who fought and died for Albania. Lol. You are a joke.
@@carllucas89 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.
A real life legend who lost not even one battle every time he had to fight the ottomans in the open field, even though he was outnumbered every time . If Skanderbeg had united forces with Hunyadi , I don’t think the Ottomans would have had any chance against the two best generals of the time. The story of Skanderbeg it’s like the story of David against Goliath , it’s just unbelievable how he managed to be undefeated for 25 years, no wonder even his enemies admired him.
@Just Ali, breathe, kid, I know that Skanderbeg is a pain in the ass but your emotional rant is not helping you.
@@edisond3789 oh yeah spreading from facts is emotional?
@Just Ali hopefully turkey doesn't dissapear now thats it people cant even buy food due to their constant aggressive policy
@Just Ali you spoke nothing but facts.
@Just Ali Keep coping kid😂
As a Turk, I respect Skaderbeg. All of her victories are due to her knowledge of the tactics of the Ottoman armies. It is also an important factor that the Ottoman pashas initially underestimated Skanderbeg. In addition, the more important threat for the Ottomans at this time came from the Timurs, Mamluks, Aq Qoyunlu and Qara Qoyunlu in the east. In fact, Skanderbeg was only one of the dozens of rebels at that time for the Ottoman Empire. III. Vlad (Vlad Dracula) also created a lot of problems at the same time for the Ottomans. And what a coincidence, he is the national hero of Romania. :)
his*
@val milos Stole him? His father literally sold his own sons to Turks to secure his throne. You have nothing but your own greed to blame.
You do not have to respect him
So the ottomans had several armies available at that time ? 25-40k to fight Skaderberg was only a small fraction ?
@@Yarisken12 In the Battle of Ankara against Timurid Empire in 1402, the Ottoman army was between 80,000 and 100,000 people. There were also Ottoman's satellite kingdoms like Stefan Lazarevic the Serbian king, who joined the war with an army of 20,000 men, on the side of the Ottomans. So you can calculate Ottoman's army.
im so glad that Albanian History is gettin known now , Gjergj Kastrioti it s not just our hero , he is hero of every country in Eu
This needs to be a movie
Haha it is but its an old ass movie
@@caligamer4988 yes the Russian version. We need full scale Holywood
Skanderbeg HD movie redone in 2012 , you can find it in recent update as well on youtube with english subtitles , the audio is in Albanian
Hollywood does not make movies for the ottoman empire, I don't know what kind of alliance this is but the only thing I know is that they don't want to represent the ottomans as the evils that they were.
THE BEST DOCUMENTARY EVER
When people say Skanderbeg is a traitor, they say that the Turks took him from his homeland by force, so it was not betrayal (in a way they are right).
but when armenius is called traitor they don't say anything
But, who says that he isn't a traitor? By definition what he did is nothing short of betrayal to the turks. Also if anything at all was learned from teutoburg incident is to never trust a hostage.
That is to say that being a traitor doesn't diminish his greatness and the great things he did in the slightest just like arminius did with what little he had to work with, and i say this as a roman history fan.
@@ktlau-ph3bi I like the Roman Empire too. What they do in the cultural and architectural fields as much as they do in the military field affects me a lot. But when Rome took the children and moved to the army, no one said anything, but when the Ottomans did the same thing, they immediately said things like the devil, the murderous ruler against the Turks.
well turks did took Aleksandar/Skenderbeg
@@nekjevecnasrbijaisrbskirod Hello, I've never spoken to a Serbian before, if you don't mind me asking, how do Serbian history books describe the Turks? Also, Skanderbeg has always been described as Albanian, I've never heard of it being Serbian.
@@oguzemrekaya6453 Don't bother! Just Serbian LIES to cover up shame! Skanderbeg actually attacked and destroyed villages of Serbian ruler of that time Đurađ Branković for helping ottomans against the Crusaders.
While Skanderbeg was holding fort in Albania, that scumbag vasal even lined up with the ottomans conquering Constantinople!
To all the Serbs and modern "Greeks" who claim that Skanderbeg was one of theirs....Please read the letter of Otranto! And then cry in silence, please!
Rroft heroi Shqiptarve Skkenderbeu, thank you this video for our hero.
Srbin . 👉👌
@@zeljkojurcic4252 serbs didnt let skanderbeg fight together with hungarians againts the ottomans lmao
@@zeljkojurcic4252 😂😂😂😂
I don't understand why do you celebrate Serbian medieval general now, you even destroyed the Serbian orthodox church in northern Albania in which he was merried.
@@SlovenskiVuk the communists destroyed it,and it was a catholic church
I can never get enough about the history of Skanderbeg (and Vladimir Dracula) they neeeeeed to make a movie or at least more recognizing..
But Vladimir first started by committing massacres and cruelty to his own people. The man is a complete psychopath.
@@ghostobalius5859 absolutely I don’t disagree. But his ways to attack the ottomans were something else.
Skanderbeg was one of the best general in history meanwhile Vlad was a useless physcho who get killed by Ottomans anyway. Today there is only a few Generals who fought against Ottomans and respected by Turks. Constantine🇬🇷(Last Empereor of Byzantine),Skanderberg 🇦🇱 and Jan Sobieski🇵🇱. Meanwhile most Turks dont even know who Vlad is. Only Romanians.
as a Turk i can easily say that '' Skanderbeg was a real martial genius'' He isn't a national balloon inflated by albanian nationalist but Vlad Tepes is just a psycho. Not a martial genius, good commander or something like that. Canonization of Tepes by Romanians is so pathetic.
Sure, a movie is a perfect idea. In youtube is a documentary 'SCANDERBEG the Warrior King (english version'
I wouldn’t call a betrayal DUDES....
It was the most innocent patriotic move ever
Well done....
If it wasn’t for him Albania would have been wiped off the map forever......
Only his name will Endure in the Land of eagles 🦅
He never betray no one he comes back to protect he's country and he's people, we love our country we love our flag we die if need to die for our country 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱
Still a betrayal, the ottomans raised and trained him
Yeah but that's not mean because he's going to see he's people he's country how Ottomans kill them
@@oroboros4858 yeah. They took him as a child by threatening his father. That's not how it works.
@@valley6824 no, it was beneficial for the children because they received state of the art training and education, look at how skenderbey turned out
@@valley6824 Actually, looking at how tough Janissary training is, he owes his militaristic genius to the Ottomans
Saying "Skenderbeg betrayed the Ottomans" is like saying "a kid betrayed his kidnappers"
Shiptats betrayd skenderbeg. Y shoud all conver to ortodoxi again and be brothers with serbians and move out from kosovo and skadar
Well he did once lived with his kidnappers like a family and won wars for them. He changed sides, therefore he is a traitor to Ottomans.
@@kasadam85 Its still kidnapping. They forcefully removed him from his parents and ordered him to fight wars he had no duty to fight. He was born as an Albanian and when he left the Ottoman military, it was all justified.
@@NB-kq7lm Cope harder.
@@NB-kq7lm convert sure move out never lol Illyrian lands
Skanderbeg a symbol of strength in Albania🔥
ti qe ben edits ne tiktok je a ahhahaha
Mashallah
Skenderbeg's grandfather, Pavle Kastriotić, moved to Janjina in Epirus as a Serbian cephalopod. Skanderbeg's father, Ivan Kastriotić, was the prince of Epirus, who held Mat, Kroja, Mirdita and Diber, and unlike his father, he quickly learned Albanian from the local population. His mother, Vojislava, was a princess also of Serbian origin, daughter of Grgur Branković and grandson of the famous Serbian knight Vuk Branković. Some less reliable analyzes place it in the Tribald family , originally from Old Serbia. ;)
@@ДраганРадикин Skanderbeg's grandfather was Albanian and he founded the Kastrioti dynasty. Stop Slavicizing his name, he is Pal Kastrioti, named after Saint Paul. And Skanderbeg's father was Gjon Kastrioti, or in English, John Kastrioti, and he created the Principality of the Kastrioti family. His mother might have been:
1) Albanian, as stated in the memoirs of Gjon(John)Muzaka
2) Serbian, from Pollog
3) Bulgarian, possibly a princess.
But still, Skanderbeg was Albanian, he spoke Albanian, and he fought for a united Albania, hence why the League of Lezha was held. Why did he raid Vuk Branković's domains if Vuk was his grand-father? See how stupid you sound?
@burri jote2 Po pra, po këta karat e Serbisë nuk dinë akoma të lexojnë, e jo më të dinë historinë....
"An example is the money donated by the Turkish government to build the biggest Mosque in Europe at the central Skenderbeg square in Tirana-the Ethem Beu Mosque, which before it’s closure in February 2018, had a capacity of no more than 60 people to now enable four and a half thousand people to pray at the same time once its finished. Next to this Mosque, in 2017, during the celebration of Kurban Bajram, at the Skenderbeg square, the monument of Skenderbeg WAS FENCED by large screen panels provided by the Albanian Islamic Community. The disappointment culminated with comments of the Albanian Imam Armand Aliu on the media; stating that Albanian Muslims SHOULD NOT BE PROUD OF SKENDERBEG who ruthlessly fought Islam"
Perparim Xhaferi, 2019 "Albanian National Identity in the twenty-first century: Escaping from the Ottoman heritage?", University of Sydney, pp.198
Could you pss off, kurvë muti, se na rrove lesht me budalliqe. Ik pordhu në Greqi shkerdheu me priftat tubthyes. Meçkë muti