Ismail Kadaré s’est attaché au personnage de Scanderbeg dans trois genres d’écrits, à savoir, sauf oubli de ma part, le roman, avec Kështjella2 (1970) — rebaptisé Rrethimi dans son ultime édition3 — et Kamarja e turpit, la poésie, avec la pièce Portreti i Skënderbeut, incluse dans le recueil Koha (1…

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

Every anniversary of events or of big national personalities is always a good impetus to further reflect and deepen more in their study, to extract new point-of views in their less illuminated sides.The 550 anniversary of Gjergj Kastrioti's death is such a great motive. Scanderbeg's war against the …

"Gjergj Kastrioti-Scanderbeg (1405-17.01.1468) is the most important national hero and the greatest strategist and statesman of Albanians who led the war for freedom against the Ottoman occupation for the political-national union of the Albanians.2The many frequent military victories glorified Scand…

Fan Noli, this Albanian eminent personality in the field of politics, literature and religion tells us in his Autobiography that when was still a student at the Adrianopolis Greek high school, during the summer holidays in his village Ibrik – Tepe, read two of the most precious books recommended by …

It is of great interest to report a synthesized profile of the social status of Albanian women in the XIV – XV century, in the main civilization centers, such as Shkodra, Durrës, Ulqin, Tivar etc. In distinction from the data of the customary law, typical of the rural and mountainous areas of the Al…

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

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

I take the title of this essay from the poem by Padraic Colum, entitled “Scanderbeg”, which I will be quoting in its entirety at its conclusion. Judged at least from a strictly grammatical perspective, the phrase “battling at the name of Scanderbeg” might perhaps appear to be a somewhat dubious one,…

The reason I have been invited to this symposium dedicated by Albania to the important personality of George Kastriotis the so-called Scanderbeg is a recent discovery I made, an unknown biography in Greek, half a century older than the one known until now as “the first Greek biography of Kastriotis”…

The History of the Life and Deeds of Scanderbeg, Prince of the Epirotes (Historia De Vita Et Gestis Scanderbegi Epirotarvm Principis) by Marin Barleti (Marinus Barletius Scodrensis), was published in Rome in 1508. This basic work was translated from Latin into a number of European languages. Barleti…

George Kastriot Skanderbeg is well-known World figure. In the Middle Ages he was the undisputed leader in the struggle against Ottomans not only in the territories of present-day Albania and northwestern parts of Macedonia but throughout the Balkans and even wider at least in Italy and Vatican. With…