@@aliakdemir9526 I. Selim, Mehmed, Murad, Bajezid was bigger and more succesful warlord. Suleiman "lived" their result. Suleiman' s alone (half) succesful campaign against the weakened hungarian kingdom. Thats all. With Suleiaman' s rule started the osman empire slowly decline.
Yes, they 'almost"... if Europe must helped a little..... Albania never had help from Europe. Austro - Hungary was the only ally we ever had during our dark periods.
Ethnicity = Skanderbeg himself defined himself as Albanian ( Ethnicity ) (handwritten letter). Ex : " Ioannes Antonius princeps Taranti Georgio Albano salutem " = Georgio the Albanian 🇦🇱 salutes the prince Giovanni of Taranto . Source : (Pope Pius II , Commentarii) The same prince Giovanni Antonio described Skanderbeg as "Georgio Albano".. Geography = Skanderbeg always signed himself as "Dominus Albaniae" (Albanian: Zot i Arbërisë, English: Lord of Albania🇦🇱) Source : Frazee, Charles A. (22 June 2006). Catholics and Sultans: The Church and the Ottoman Empire 1453-1923. Cambridge University Press. p. 33. Even the Serbs of the time considered Skanderbeg as Albanian, his father (Gjon) was buried in an Orthodox monastery, the Serbs named the tower where he is buried "Albanian tower🇦🇱"... Source : ( Himelstir. p. 45 )
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.
Moreover, even the descendants of Skanderbeg from the Arbëresh community qualify as Albanians and not as Serbs ... Example : Shopie Castriota, loris Castriota etc ... 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
Ethnicity = Skanderbeg himself defined himself as Albanian ( Ethnicity ) (handwritten letter). Ex : " Ioannes Antonius princeps Taranti Georgio Albano salutem " = Georgio the Albanian 🇦🇱 salutes the prince Giovanni of Taranto . Source : (Pope Pius II , Commentarii) The same prince Giovanni Antonio described Skanderbeg as "Georgio Albano".. Geography = Skanderbeg always signed himself as "Dominus Albaniae" (Albanian: Zot i Arbërisë, English: Lord of Albania🇦🇱) Source : Frazee, Charles A. (22 June 2006). Catholics and Sultans: The Church and the Ottoman Empire 1453-1923. Cambridge University Press. p. 33. Even the Serbs of the time considered Skanderbeg as Albanian, his father (Gjon) was buried in an Orthodox monastery, the Serbs named the tower where he is buried "Albanian tower🇦🇱"... Source : ( Himelstir. p. 45 )
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.
Moreover, even the descendants of Skanderbeg from the Arbëresh community qualify as Albanians and not as Serbs ... Example : Shopie Castriota, loris Castriota etc ... 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
Thank you bro i repsect a serb like you who doesent spread propoganda about Skanderbeg. Do Not misunderstand me there Are albanians who spread propoganda too 🇦🇱🤝🇷🇸
@@bleblebleble25 Serbian legends are lies. 1)Vuk Brankovic fight to end against turks if you ask hystorians,, in legend he was traitor. 2)Knez Lazar who fight in battle in Kosovo was hero, he refuse to help other serbians states in Macedonia against turks, when Lazar was captures in Kosovo, serbian army run away from batle together with Brankovic who was wery efective in battle.Now some serbs say Skendeberg was serbian hahaha.Who know maybe Karadjordje was chinesse.
@@Aeneas-sg2rt It's really hard to find serbs like you who accept the truth and dont believe in stupid lies. If you are really a serbian I would like to talk with you more
@@bleblebleble25 He is not a Serb. In recent times, it has become a frequent occurrence that Albanians present themselves as Serbs and write that they agree with the fact that Skanderbeg is an ethnic Albanian, which of course is not true.
I was first introduced to Skandebeg on my visit to Tirana about 7 years ago. You can't miss the big statue of him on the main road through Tirana. Thanks for the additional information.
@@PANTER1389 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.
Thank you for making this video. Skanderberg deserves more recognition. Not enough people know how interesting the history of the balkans is. Can’t wait for more of your videos!
One movie that was produced in 1950's between Albanians and Soviet Union and won a prize at the Cane Festival in France. But, definitely needs a Hollywood style movie. This is Albanian version with English subtitles. th-cam.com/video/xj7IT1bxto8/w-d-xo.html
@@valley6824 whats better than having his name and doings spread all over the world and i totally disagree with you, the american movies are way better their cinematpgraphx is decades ahead of an other country so they if possible would do a great movie
He was the greats General, and the greats King never lived! All Europe, should be a greatfull to him because Skenderbeg, safe them all from Turkish, expansions! Lavdi a Gjergj Kastrijot, Skenderbeg 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙏🏻⛪️
You should watch acts 17 apologetics and pfander films and dcci ministries and christian prince and cira international on TH-cam and watch all the channels on TH-cam robert 😀😀😀
@@wrecked8746 first of all Muhammad did have black slaves so Muhammad is a racist pagan prophet and why Allah speech has dementia because the sentence in the Quran jumps from different sentences at the same time why wrecked
@@wrecked8746 then which Quran hafs-shu-bah or khalaf-kahallad or al-duri-al-susl or warsh-al-azzraq or al-bazzi-qunbul or al-laith-al kisai or ibn-jamaz-ibn wardan or qaloon or ibn-shanboodh or al-asbahaani and theres more which one wrecked
I just watched two videos of one Albanian historian and another politician saying how Skenderbegs parents were Serbian and how Skenderbeg should bring the us together... Is this possible?
@@not-much-but-enoughThe historians is Adrian Klosi Adrian Klosi (like Olsi Jazexhi) is an anti-Albanian who has been called a traitor of the nation by many Albanians because he told anything for profit. But the most important is that is the so-called "historians" are totally recognized as unreliable! Just look at their reputations! But Ardian Klosi will feel guilty about his lies. Adrian Klosi (translator of Olivier Schmitt's book) and Olsi were inspired by Olivier Schmitt's book (a totally false book). You give me historians and writers who are not qualified for their reliability (ask about these characters) Example : The book of Olivier Schmitt (book completely admitted as false, by the recognized historians!) By the way Olivier Schmitt declared HIMself later that his book was full of mistakes (in fact untrue), he declared that skanderbeg was Albanian on both sides (father, MOTHER) etc... Martin barleti never said that skanderbeg was a Serb! Give me the source where Martin Barleti said that Skanderbeg was Serbian! I want the source in the official book of Martin Barleti and not in the book of Olivier Schmitt because it is Olivier Schmitt who invented this quote! SOURCES !!!! = Vizion Plus TH-cam channel. "Skënderbeu" tërhiqet Schmitt - Vizion Plus - News - Lajme. Statement by Schmmit: 0/27 - 1/03 Olivier Schmitt wanted to make a buzz by declaring that the mother of Skanderbeg (Albanian hero) was Serbian, knowing perfectly well the tense relationship between Albanians and Serbs... It worked, the Serbs bought in mass his book full of lies... And when he filled his pockets well, he declared later that his book is false ... So if Olivier Schmitt told anything in his book (and later assumed it), then Adrian Klosi also tell anything because they were inspired by Olivier Schmitt's book... It's mathematical. The Serbs were inspired by Olivier Schmitt's book full of lies (still today)...
@@ПредрагНиколић 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
@@ПредрагНиколић The House of Kastrioti (Albanian: Dera e Kastriotëve) was an Albanian noble family, active in the 14th and 15th centuries as the rulers of the Principality of Kastrioti. At the beginning of the 15th century, the family controlled a territory in the Mat and Dibra regions. Exemple : Great grandfather = Kostandin Kastrioti Mazreku (died ca. 1390) was an Albanian 🇦🇱 regional ruler in parts of the wider Mat and Dibër areas. Grandfather = Pal Kastrioti was an Albanian 🇦🇱 medieval ruler in the latter part of the 14th century in northern Albania. Source : Genealogy of the Kastrioti family, Du Cange (1680), Historia Byzantina duplici commentario Ethnicity = Skanderbeg himself defined himself as Albanian ( Ethnicity ) (handwritten letter). Ex : " Ioannes Antonius princeps Taranti Georgio Albano salutem " = Georgio the Albanian 🇦🇱 salutes the prince Giovanni of Taranto . Source : (Pope Pius II , Commentarii) The same prince Giovanni Antonio described Skanderbeg as "Georgio Albano".. Geography = Skanderbeg always signed himself as "Dominus Albaniae" (Albanian: Zot i Arbërisë, English: Lord of Albania🇦🇱) Source : Frazee, Charles A. (22 June 2006). Catholics and Sultans: The Church and the Ottoman Empire 1453-1923. Cambridge University Press. p. 33. Skanderbeg's father etc ... (Gjon) was buried in Hilandar... In his honor St. George, the tower of the monastery in Hilandar was known as the "Albanian tower🇦🇱" in reference to its Albanian origins . Source: Slijepčević, Đoko M. (1983). Srpsko-arbanaški odnosi kroz vekove sa posebnim osvrtom na novije vreme (in Serbian). Himelstir. p. 45 .
SKANDERBEG - The last crusader It is simple to arrange facts on words, but making it so simple for everyone to understand needs a hard work. Thank you for this brilliant documentary video, your work is always on point.
@@tw3ist what do you mean I didn’t understand sorry..? Saladin - 12th Century and Skanderbeg - 15th Century. Don’t be confused “crusader” and the age of “crusades” are totally different part of history.
Skanderbeg was also undoubtedly The Most Successful commander amongst the entire Balkan resistance against the Ottomans and caused them the most difficulty of all, If we compare him to other legends like Hunyadi, Stephan lezarovich, Vlad Dracul & Michael the Brave, then Skanderbeg could easily be put on top with his amount of Military engagements won
Funny bit of trivia: Skanderbeg and Vlad Dracul knew each other, they were hostages together at Edirne. Vlad was traumatized by his time there, but Skanderbeg was the oldest among the hostages so he was something of an older brother figure to those princes and noblemen from all around the Balkans.
Interesting episode.. The history of the Balkans was not talked about much here in the western world. Thanks for enlightening me as I've been enjoying your videos focusing on the history in this part of the world! Thanks Oscar and look foreward to watching your next video! Keep up the great work!! 😀
Thank you Gary. Thanks to taking the time to learn how to animate these videos I can finally create quality content about Medieval and Ancient periods without risking it being too descriptive without footage. I plan to delve more into the Balkan, Ottoman Empire and ancient China throughout this year.
@@Adamu-h2r About your comment = Adrian Klosi (like Olsi Jazexhi) is an anti-Albanian who has been called a traitor of the nation by many Albanians because he told anything for profit. But the most important is that is the so-called "historians" are totally recognized as unreliable! Just look at their reputations! But Ardian Klosi will feel guilty about his lies. Adrian Klosi (translator of Olivier Schmitt's book) and Olsi were inspired by Olivier Schmitt's book (a totally false book). You give me historians and writers who are not qualified for their reliability (ask about these characters) Example : The book of Olivier Schmitt (book completely admitted as false, by the recognized historians!) By the way Olivier Schmitt declared HIMself later that his book was full of mistakes (in fact untrue), he declared that skanderbeg was Albanian on both sides (father, MOTHER) etc... Martin barleti never said that skanderbeg was a Serb! Give me the source where Martin Barleti said that Skanderbeg was Serbian! I want the source in the official book of Martin Barleti and not in the book of Olivier Schmitt because it is Olivier Schmitt who invented this quote! SOURCES !!!! = Vizion Plus TH-cam channel. "Skënderbeu" tërhiqet Schmitt - Vizion Plus - News - Lajme. Statement by Schmmit: 0/27 - 1/03 Olivier Schmitt wanted to make a buzz by declaring that the mother of Skanderbeg (Albanian hero) was Serbian, knowing perfectly well the tense relationship between Albanians and Serbs... It worked, the Serbs bought in mass his book full of lies... And when he filled his pockets well, he declared later that his book is false ... So if Olivier Schmitt told anything in his book (and later assumed it), then Adrian Klosi also tell anything because they were inspired by Olivier Schmitt's book... It's mathematical. The Serbs were inspired by Olivier Schmitt's book full of lies (still today)...
@@Adamu-h2r 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 inscription, addressed to Skanderbeg himself, means : "Iesus Nazarenus Principi Emathie Regi Albaiae Terrori Osmanorum Regi Epirotarum Benedictat Te" ("Jesus of Nazareth bless you, prince of Mat, king of Albania, terror of the Ottomans, king of Epirus")
Friend can you give me an argument/document/folder, whatever, that the name (Sqipetar) is mentioned in the balkan before the year 1043 AD you think that you are someone and something "Old people of the Balkans" but the truth is that you are nobody and nothing newcomers, and before 1043 you were not in the Balkans,
@@greatpower8147 First of all I open a parenthesis about the name of Albania or Albanians quoted by Strabo (around 58-21/25) in the 1st century BC and Claudius Ptolemy (around 100 - 170 AD) in the 2nd century AD. It derives from the name of an Illyrian tribe, the Albanoi, which was located around the city of Albanopolis (now Zgërdhesh located in the region of Krujë). Moreover, even today, a region of Albania, from the north of Tirana (between the rivers Mat and Erzen), is called Albëni (gheg dialect) or Arbëri (tosk dialect). But this name Albanoi with its various variants (Arbanites, Arvanites, Arvanitis, Arvanos, Arban, Arbani, Arbanon, Arnavuts, Arnauts, Arbëri, Arbër, Arbëni, Arbën, Albën, Albanois, or Albanians) really began to spread when the Albanian territories became a field of hostility and a buffer zone between Byzantines and the new Slavic invaders (Serbs, Croats etc.. ...) towards the beginning of the seventh century AD. Several writers of the eleventh century, including Michel Attaliate and Jean Skyltzes, have recounted this kind of confrontation and widely spoken of these Albanian mountain tribes. It is the Angevin chancelleries (Charles I of Anjou, brother of St Louis, proclaimed himself king of Albania in 1272) which, in the 13th century, conveyed the name of Albanian or Albanians, which spread rapidly, like wildfire, throughout Europe. It should be noted that the Albanians never use this name (Albanian) to designate their own ethnic group: they call themselves Shqiptar, that is to say son or child of the eagle. Source : Albanais: histoire du Moyen Age au XXe s, P.54, Mathieu AREF (Histoire et langue) ou l'incroyable Odyssée d'un peuple préhellénique.
@@greatpower8147 Origin of the name "Shqiptar" =. 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)!
@@greatpower8147 From the beginning of the Paleolithic the territory of Illyria (formerly, from the two banks of the Danube to Epirus) was occupied by men as proven by numerous discoveries of which the Karprina caves dating from approximately 160.000 years (currently in Croatia), the Gjatan cave (in Albania near Shkodër), etc. . Eugene Pittard (🇫🇷) affirmed in 1916: "I have already said elsewhere that Albania seems to me to contain the most important archaeological and anthropological documents for what concerns the origins of the MOST ANCIENT POPULATIONS OF THE BALKAN PENINSULA; populations that, at the dawn of history, we see appear under the name of Illyrians! Sources : (The peoples of the Balkans, antropological sketches, Neuchâtel / Paris)
There was an idea to make a Hollywood movie based on this Albanian warrior deeds, but it would cost millions of dollars, so let's hope they can put the money together and make a great movie.
Battle of Albulena was a masterpiece , when the battle was over Albanian army surrended 10.000 Ottoman soldiers a debate took place between Skanderbeg and his commanders Skanderbeg wanted to spare the life of Ottomans but Lek Dukagjini disagreed and gave the command 'Mbi ta' ENG 'on them' and a massive slaughter took place
"Battle of Albulena" Skanderbeg had 7,000 Albanian solders, his nephew Hamza who betrayed him and knew all his tactics, together with great Ottoman general Isak Bey Evrnoz had 80,000 solders, and it resulted with Albanian victory, casualties = 30,000 killed Ottoman solders.
We Bosniaks ,most of us,love Albania and Albanians. Kosovo is not Serbia.Sadly thousands of our Bosniak women and young girls suffered during the aggression ,(RAPED In Brutal Ways).We should be little devils also back then and stretched out Serbian women and girls but there is always time for that in the other round ( if it comes to it ).Srebrenica was also very sad and a war crime against us Bosnian Muslims.
@@bojanpavlovic5489 Letter from Skanderbeg to the Prince of Taranto: ÒGiorgio, gentleman of Albania, to Giovanni Antonio, Prince of Taranto, greeting. Having made a truce with the enemy of my religion I have not wanted that my friend remain (fraudato) of my aid. (Spesse?) times, Alfonso, his father, invited my help while I waged war against the Turks. Therefore I would be very ungrateful if I had not resisted (lÕistesso?) service to his son. I remember what your king did because now (non deve vedere succedergli? ) this who is his son? You adored his father, and why now do you try to throw out his son? Where did this power come from? Who has the power to set up the King of Sicily, you or the Roman Pontiff? I came to aid Ferrante, son of the king and seat of the Apostolica. I came opposing your unfaithfulness and innumerable great betrayals in this kingdom. (NeÕ?) will you ever be unpunished for your perjury. This is the reason for my war against you. I merit this no less than I merited making war against the Turks, nor are you less Turk than them. (ImperoccheÕ vi sono alcuni?) that guide you in a straight line not to be of some sect. You my opponents the French and the names of those people, and those for the religion wage grand war. I do not want to dispute ancient matters with you, matters that perhaps were much less than what was told about them. Certainly in our times the Aragonese armadas have often coursed the Aegean Sea, have plundered the Turkish coasts, have (riportata?) the prey of the enemies; and even today the Aragonese armies defend Troja from the jaws of the enemy. Why do I remember the old things and leave the new parts? If they change the family costumes and the plowmen of the kingdom, and the kings of the plowmen return? (NeÕ troverai nobilitaÕ piuÕ antica della virtuÕ.) Nor can I deny that you are not with the obnoxious French nation, (imperoccheÕ) you being mainly in aid of King Alfonso, you hunted the French of this kingdom. I do not know now what new virtue shines in this. Perhaps it is some new star that you have now seen among the French? Moreover, you scorned our people, and compared the Albanese to sheep, and according to your custom think of us with insults. Nor have you shown yourself to have any knowledge of my race. My elders were from Epirus, where this Pirro came from, whose force could scarcely support the Romans. This Pirro, who Taranto and many other places of Italy held back with armies. I do not have to speak for the Epiroti. They are very much stronger men than your Tarantini, a species of wet men who are born only to fish. If you want to say that Albania is part of Macedonia I would concede that a lot more of our ancestors were nobles who went as far as India under Alexander the Great and defeated all those peoples with incredible difficulty. From those men come these who you called sheep. But the nature of things is not changed. Why do your men run away in the faces of sheep? In the past the Albanese have (fatto?) experience if the Pugilese were armed; (neÕ) I would again find some who would have been able to aspired to my nature. I have well noted from the back how many of your soldiers are well armed but have never been able to see their helmets or (tanpoco?) the face except those that have become prisoners. (NeÕ?) I seek your house (Bastandomi? ) my own. Besides, it is well known that you often would have shot your neighbors for their possessions, as now you would force out the king of your house and your kingdom. (Che se?) If I fall in the difficult task I have embarked on I will be buried as (mi vai?) wishing in your letter, will bring back my soul as a reward from the Chancellor of the universe, of God. Not only will I have perfected my intention, but also I will have planned and attempted some distinguished deed. Good bye....Ó "
I remenber reading the newspaper, 50 years ago, and Albania was always ranked as the lowest income in the world. SOMEONE has hated Albania for some reason for a looong time.
Yes, that's very true! I'm glad you understood. But why this hatred "? A mystery. An Albanian free mason said before he died inexplicably very important words in an interview on Albanian TV.
Thank you for this video you did a great job, Gjergj Kastrioti Skdenberbeu was the greatest Albanian europian hero ever, i wonder why eurpoeans don't mention him much more...He was a lion! Kicked the ottomans ass really hard. So proud being an Albanian and having him as my hero and inspiration!
Infact, Skanderbeg was one of the most prominent and famous figures in Europe during his lifetime AND after his death, there were books made for him in German, Italian, French, Spanish, English and much much more. His fame died out due to the fact the modern people remember figures due to movies rather than books. And im 100% guaranteed if a hollywood director makes an incredible movie for Skanderbeg he will be talked about alot more.
For a short video, this is well done. It still gives an idea against what odds he fought and won. To fully appreciate Skenderbeg’s military genius you have to read about his tactics on the battlefield more in detail
basically it's a hybrid of heavy fortifications and guerilla warfare / he would divide his entire army into Two Half's / the first half (all infantry) would be split up into many garrisons that would defend all heavily fortified major cities, causing a difficult siege for each of them / the Other half (all Cavalry) which Skanderbeg would lead himself, split up into many small mobile guerilla bands which Would constantly Ambush, raid & Charge Ottoman supply lines, camps & unprepared troops both during the Day & Night & would also constantly aid the cities that were under siege by constantly charging the Ottoman rear at an opportune moment, foccussing on destroying provisions and siege equipment which would prolong the siege until Winter, which in turn would force that Ottoman army to retreat again
My Albanian pride I will not hide. My Pelasgian ancestors I will not disgrace. My illyrian blood flows hot and true. My Albanian people I will stand by you. Through thick and thin till the day we die, our Albanian flag 🇦🇱 WILL ALWAYS FLY HIGH
CASTRIOTA E BRANAI(GRANAI) Castriota - First of Kastrioti kin "Der Serbe Branilo" written in Book "Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste, in alphabetischer Folge von genannten Schriftstellern", year 1868 Gjon Muzaka: "Skanderbeg is Serbian nature" 1573 in Sansovinova, "Historia univeryale racolta di Francesco Sansovino" clearly writes in Italian: "Very brave man, of serbian nation" Writed by Theodoro Spandugino in 16th century. Count Leopold Ranke History of the Servian People 1848 Leipzig, Germany: "Skanderbeg's family is of Serbian origin ... he married Danica, the daughter of Duke Golem." First man in history recorded with Castriot(ich) surname was called Branilo! This medieval noble who served serbian emperor Dushan, clearly beared serbian-slavic name. Tzar Stephan Dushan gave area of Jannina in Epirus to his servant Branilo to rule there. Thus, FIRST historical documents about Scanderbeg family origins are confirming his serbian origins from his father side. Walter Laqueur (1976): ,,The most successful of the opponents to Turkish rule was George Castriota - Skanderbeg. A SERBIAN by birth, he had served with distincion with Turkish army for many years and was a governor of a sanjak" Jireček, Konstantin (1876): "Skanderbeg's familie war Slavischen Ursprung. Seinen väterlichen Urgrossvater Branilo finden wir 1368 an dem Hofe Alexander's, des Herrn von Valona" ----------------- Konstantin Jiricheck (1876): "Scanderbeg's family was of slavic origin. His grandfathers name was Branilo!"
@@dl7790 First of all, your authors were not admitted for their reliability because they did not show any work on the ancestry of the Skanderbeg lineage. So that's why they were not admitted! ( You just have to inform yourself about your authors) Then Muzaka never wrote in his book that Skanderbeg was of Serbian nature! Never! This quote was invented by chauvinists. Give this quote from Muzaka that is supposedly said in his book! (You will not find this quote because he never wrote it in his book!) Give us solid archives, not chauvinism or authors who have done NO WORK on the ancestry of Skanderbeb!
@@dl7790 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.
@@dl7790 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.
Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg's letter to the Prince of Taranto, Giovanni Orsini, who insulted the Albanians, claiming they were nothing more than sheep. The letter is dated 31 October 1460: "...Moreover, you scorned our people, claiming the Albanians as nothing more than sheep, and according to your customs think of us with only insults. Nor have you shown yourself to have any knowledge of my race. Our elders were 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 your Tarantini, a species of wet men born only to catch fish. And since you proclaim Albania a part of Macedonia, then you grant also our elders as nobles who went as far as India under Alexander the Great, defeating all the people that came before them with great ease. From those men descend these who you call sheep. But the nature of things has not changed. Why do your men run away in the faces of sheep?"
@@LuckyLupen The fact that part of Northern Epirus is occupied by Albania does not mean that the people that lived there 2,000 years ago where albanians. It is stated in every source and ancient text that the majority of the people there were Greeks. The sources about their bloodline and ancestry still says the same The first reference in Albania Albanians and Albanian language is after the 11th century. Try to look at the sources from European universities for example or from places around the world and not from books with nationalistic Albanian propaganda
Skanderbeg actually was Serbian. According to documents of this time Skanderbeg didn’t spoke albanian but Serbian. All of his letters were written in Serbian-Cyrillic. His father and his brother were buried in Serbian monastery Hilandar on mount Athos, where his brother lived as a monk. All of his siblings had Slavic-Serbian names and his mother was Vojsava from Brankovic dynasty. His great grandfather Branilo (Serbian name), was the first mentioned Kastrioti and according to historians he was without doubt of Serbian origin. He was part of serbian Crnojevic noble family. They have even the same coat of arms.
As an Albanian I thank you for this video that is very informative and factual. I think, so far, this is the best description of Skanderbeg, without Albanian lore, and without the depreciative language used by anti-Albanian individuals. Skanderbeg was an Albanian lord, but his wars and his loyalty was with the other Balkan people and the rest of Europe. Several Popes called him "Athleta Christi" for his role in fighting for his Albanian homeland and Christianity.
Lol "anti Albanian individuals". Why you dont got any name like "Skenderbeg" brothers or sisters,why that names aint popular in Albania,show respect to Skenderbeg and give your kids Slavic names which is used by Serbs in this whole region...Names like Staniša,Repoš,Mara,Jelena,Jela,all this names is directly from his brothers,sister and mother...
@@gloopdogg1145 It is not worth arguing with you; Skandebeg's name was George, last name Kastrioti - we still have both those names; George is spelled as "Gjergj" in Albanian; it is mostly a Christian name, but Muslims also name their sons Gjergj in Albania along with Catholics and Orthodoxs. Yes, Stanisha and others feld to Serbia after Ottomans took over Medieval Albania; George's father, John (Gjon) was a Medieval Albanian Prince (Arberia) and he was vassal to Serbian king; Principality of Arber had Serbia as their closest ally. Albanians and Serbs became enemies only after 1911.
@@gloopdogg1145 Also, Skander is a popular name among Muslim Albanians. I know one Orthodox Albanian who is named Skender, but that was done because two families; one Muslim and one Orthodox were friends so the Muslim named his son Kristo (yes Christ), and the Orthodox named his son Skender (a Muslim name in honor of Alexander the Great of Macedonia).
@@gloopdogg1145 Not sure if I told you that Russians made a movie about Skanderbeg - they said he was Albanian, never mentioned any relationship to Serbia. Part of my family is Muslim, but they celebrate Saint George Day.
@@xhoi96 Yeah, and was formed by smurfs and existed in parallel dimension, because in this dimension, Albania is first time formed in 1912. under the patronate of Austro-Hungarian and British empires. And about Skenderbeg, what language he spoke and wrote? Do you have or know any document from that epoch in albanian? A single book, chrysobule, anything? Because there is plenty of those in Serbian. Not to speak about topology.
@@Epimahos "Moreover you scorn our people, claiming the Albanians are nothing more than sheeps, and according to your customs think of us with only insults. It would seem you know of the origin of our race. Our elders were Epirotes (Shqipetars) 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 exist 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 as part of Macedonia, you grant also then, our elders as nobles who went as far as India under Alexander the great, defeating all the people that came before them with great erase. From those men descend these who you call sheep, but the natures of things is not changed. Why do your men run away in the face of sheep?" 31, October, 1460. Letter to Prince of Taranto. -Gjergj Kastrioti "Skenderbeg".
People forget something very important. Our hero was always in the field fighting alongside his men, unlike many famous generals that always stood behind their man and just had to point fingers to give orders. Now that's quite a difference right?
Hey Oscar, lets celebrate 100.000 aubscribers my friend....you are nearly there. Congrats for another great video, I know how much effort you put to make this one with all the new technics you have learnt recently. Kudos to you.
@@shanebrown2009 He has received the title from the Vatican "Athlete of Christ" defender of Christianity what are you saying ??? He deserves a movie more than a few fictional characters
The only movie that was done about the ottoman empire was "The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683". And even that one was not done by Hollywood but was a cooperation of Italy and Poland.
So basically the Serbs blocked Albanians under Skanderbeg twice from helping the crusaders? Once in the Battle of Varna and the second time in the Second Battle of Kosova... This just goes to show who was fighting the Ottomans and who was collaborating with the Ottomans!!! REMEMBER THAT
@@ПредрагНиколић The House of Kastrioti (Albanian: Dera e Kastriotëve) was an Albanian noble family, active in the 14th and 15th centuries as the rulers of the Principality of Kastrioti. At the beginning of the 15th century, the family controlled a territory in the Mat and Dibra regions. Exemple : Great grandfather = Kostandin Kastrioti Mazreku (died ca. 1390) was an Albanian 🇦🇱 regional ruler in parts of the wider Mat and Dibër areas. Grandfather = Pal Kastrioti was an Albanian 🇦🇱 medieval ruler in the latter part of the 14th century in northern Albania. Source : Genealogy of the Kastrioti family, Du Cange (1680), Historia Byzantina duplici commentario Ethnicity = Skanderbeg himself defined himself as Albanian ( Ethnicity ) (handwritten letter). Ex : " Ioannes Antonius princeps Taranti Georgio Albano salutem " = Georgio the Albanian 🇦🇱 salutes the prince Giovanni of Taranto . Source : (Pope Pius II , Commentarii) The same prince Giovanni Antonio described Skanderbeg as "Georgio Albano".. Geography = Skanderbeg always signed himself as "Dominus Albaniae" (Albanian: Zot i Arbërisë, English: Lord of Albania🇦🇱) Source : Frazee, Charles A. (22 June 2006). Catholics and Sultans: The Church and the Ottoman Empire 1453-1923. Cambridge University Press. p. 33.
@@ПредрагНиколић Even the Serbs of the time considered Skanderbeg as Albanian, his father was buried in an Orthodox monastery, the Serbs named the tower where he is buried "Albanian tower🇦🇱"... source : ( Himelstir. p. 45 )
What did Albanians 🇦🇱 have before the Ottoman invasion? 1. Albanians had a University in 1380 in Durrës. To give you an idea: Germany opened its first university, 6 years after Durrës (Heidelberg University). 2. Albanians had 6 fully developed cities as much as Florence, Venice, Marseille or Paris. (Durrës, Shkodra, Drishti, Lezha, Berat and Preveza). 3. Albanians had the aristocratic class with 8 noble families (Balshaj, Topiaj, Muzakaj, Kastrioti, Arianiti, Zebenishta, Spataj and Dukagjini) connected by marriage even with the Habsburgs and the Bourbons. 4. Albanians had the humanist philosophers, who with their genius ideas, were advisers to the imperial families in Hungary, Italy and Austria (Gjon Gazhuli, Pal Ungjëlli, Leonik Tomeo and Gjon Durrsaku). 5. Albanian cities had statutes and were governed by democracy while at the same time America for example it was governed by the Cherokee Indians or the Aztec tribes who still drank human blood and lived as cannibals. 6. In Durrës, intellectualism was so high that we have documented in the 12th century for the first time the note of protest of an Orthodox Metropolitan, who writes to Constantinople, against slavery, 300 years before it started as a debate in Europe. 7. In Durrës, trade was done even with Tunisia, Ukraine and France, since the 5th century. While at the same time for example the Scandinavian countries still lived by worshiping the tree or the mountain. 8. The Church of Albania had issued a Cardinal (and a cardinal was no small thing then). What happened next? The Ottomans just came and for 500 years made that every Albanian forgot who they really were.
Well based on the information about Marie Bala ( Mary Ball ) was from the same region as the Lekë Dukagjini which was Skendeberg's right hand. As a child of an Albanian mother l can see why Washington would have been influenced to study Skenderbeg's strategy and later on applied similar strategies himself. Of course the information of his mother's identity is still kept off public since mainstream still doesn't confirm her roots.
There is only one country who's always been with us and that's Hungary. We have a great connection between but we never talk about it. But we all love u Hungary and we never forget.
Curious fact - Albania and Hungary are the only countries in Europe surrounded, in nearly their entirety, by their own populations, Albanians and Hungarians.
Just a history fact: When the Arabs asked "what is his name?" , pointing to the figure of Alexander, they thought that the Christians told them "Al Eksander", since "al" in their language is the equivalent of "the" (e.g. the emperor)... Then they also misspelled the x, and instead of pronouncing it "eks" they wrote "esk"... So from then onwards they call Alexander "Iskander", or even Skender/Skander, until this day....
fun fact: but there is no meaning in arabic nor turkish for eskender. it is a pronouncing matter. they may have mispelled it because it doesn't pass their language. in turkey the greeks are called as "yunanlılar". "yunanlı" or "yunan" for greek and "yunanlılar" for greeks. "-lar" ending makes it plural in turkish. it comes from "yunan" which was first used by persians referring to "ionian". it is a pronouncing style of a different language. mika is michael in nordic languages which comes from mikail. marry is a different pronounce of marriam . jesus is mispelling of isa. "istanbul" is also a different pronounce of constantinapolis. there is no meaning for "istanbul" in turkish. early pronounce of it was "istanpol" and more early versions were "asitane". they used the name how they first heard it. make a little research for the animal sounds and how they reflected from each languages. for example for dog sound, all the countries have different sounds. hav hav, graw, wow wow, nom nom...etc it is not because there is a different meanings in each languages, it is because what they hear when it makes that sound. japanese cannot understand difference between "r" and "l", arabs cannot understand "p" "b" and "f" difference, turks sometines use "k" "g" and "kh" for each other. west cannot understand "kh" or "ch" or "x" voice. so the christianity is spelled with "k" in west but it is with "h which comes from throat" in original. russians say "varvara" for "barbara". turks say "farfara". germans understand it as "fau" sound when it starts with "v". by the way another fun fact: the "voldemort" in harry potter fiction is a variation for "wladimir" in russion. they use the different variation of russian names for the bad characters in their tales.
@@OK-ok2cw so r u offended cause i said "misspelled" instead of "misheard"?... There is a town called Iskenderun in the southern border of modern Turkey which was formerly known as Alexandretta... Also, Constantinople is an entirely different issue... It was emperor's Konstantinos the Great City... Constantino's Poli (Polis in Greek means City, that's where Police comes from as well)....... But the Turks probably didn't want their great conquest to have the name of an emperor, and they changed it.. the legend says that they heard the Byzantines saying in Greek "Εις την Πόλη" aka "is tin poli" which meant "to the City", and City with a capital letter was only the greatest city of all, Constantinople... So from the phrase "is tin Poli" came "Is-tan-bul"... As for the Japanese and Russian, I don't even have a clue, maybe you are right.....
@@konstantinosserres3598 I know the city Iskenderun(Alexandretta) since it is my hometown. A small city in Antioch. Also there is Alexanderia in Eygpt which is prounounced same way. I am not offended but I say it is not because of the meaning, it is because of the pronouncing. in arabic, "x" is pronounced as "isk" not as "iks". These cities have hellenistic culture and most of them protect their original names. For example there is also a city called Defne in Antioch which takes its roots from Daphne the Greek mitologic figure.
@@OK-ok2cw both of you have forgotten to mention that the term hellen elen and the term Greek they are not of Greek origin...according to Aristotle the term (grai graikos) is a word of Illyro Albanian origin . used in epir for a Doric tribe...instead the term elen helen it seems to have Semitic origins
@@lagjescuni5482 Aristotle never ever mentions anywhere the word ALBANIAN cause at his time Albanians as we know them today did not exist . 2 nd , could you tell us what in modern Albanian or in Illyrian grai or grekos means ? Of curse not ,,, because it does not translate in youre language . 3 Elen -Helen seems to be of Semitic origin ? Where did you find this ? in Semitic languages it means nothing because there is no meaning . The word Hellene is the derivative of the word HELLAS witch is compromised of two words ( HENSE THE DOUBLE LL ) HEL-LAS HEL means high and, LAAS witch means stone,,, in other words ,,, people of stones or mountain people or , people born from the earth ( it has to do with with Greek mythology the story of Deukalion and Pyrra ) . Could you please tell us what the word HELLAS means in Semitic ? of course not because it means nothing . Stop spreading nonsense in matters beyond youre understanding and don't believe all the idiotic literature that Greek haters are righting ,,, read and you will find the truth , and then you will be a better man
Hello sir, some inaccuracies of this video have to be noted: 1-The first thing that gets into the eye its the inaccuracy of the map, where many venetian posessions are not shown correctly like the city of Durrazzo/Durres wich at the time and still today it is the most important coastal city in albania and didn't fall untill 1501. The city of Scutari/Shkoder its not shown in the map while it was the most important city of the northern albanian venetian held fortifications. Some southern albanian towns like Himara supported Skanderbeg and aren't shown in the map. The northern italian venetian state was much larger at the time controlling cities as far as Brescia and Bergamo in Lombardy and many greek islands like Corfu, Negroponte (Euboea), Naxos ecc. were venetian held islands . 2- Costantinople didn't fall until 1453 while in the video during the time of the early rebellion(1443-1448) its shown as an ottoman city, after Murad II retreated to Edirne(Adrianople) after failing in the siege of Kruja (1450) he passed away that winter and was succeded by Mehmet II who turned his attention to Costantinople and conquered it in 1453. Events to be noted: The first Ottoman-Venetian war of 1463-1479 was a crucial event in the area not mentioned in the video where after the death of Skanderbeg in 1468 the Serene Republic took over albanian fortesses like Kruja and Lezhe wich both fell in 1478 where in the video it is said that it fell 10 years after Kruja. Then followed Shkodra wich fell in 1479 and the last albanian bastion would remain Durres held by Venice wich fell in 1501. Overall the video has good graphics quality however the historic details and events have to be accurate in order for people to better undertand the geopolitical events that shaped the area in the way we know it today. Thank you for your content sir and I hope in the future more high quality videos will be released, as im interested in further historic content. Have a good day. (:
Hey Blendi, thank you for taking the time to write such an insightful comment. I appreciate you pointing out things that could be improved. This channel is just me, and being only human I occasionally overlook certain things (such as the Venetian coastal cities) or think omitting details will not matter to the narrative (Adding Shkoder to the map, or since I mentioned the 1453 conquest of Constantinople in the first section, since the video is long I did not want to draw too much attention to it later on, when it was chronologically fitting). Still, I strive to improve every video. As much as I want my videos to be informative and entertaining, I also learn a lot from the comment section after upload thanks to people like yourself. Take care, Oscar
@Andrej Serbia the nation of stolen lands and history. Now it wants to steal heroes of other countries. Nice. What’s next. You gonna claim Jesus Christ as well.
@Andrej you Will Never find a Document of 14-15-16 Century where he is described as a Serbian or Even Namen with IC or VIC in the end of the Name. But Kopili !
"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
It’s true. A lot of imams and traitors talk bad on Skenderbeu but the government usually deals with them nice and swiftly. The mosque part is true also. Erdogan doesn’t like the fact that when he visits Albania he has to be reminded by a massive statue of Skenderbeu so he though building a giant mosque within close proximity of it would make him feel better. The truth is only 2% of Muslims in Albania attend mosque or are practising Muslims. And everyone in Albania from Orthodox to Muslim respect and love him. Albania takes it very seriously when you talk bad on nationalistic heroes 😅 as an example, Albanian police have arrested imams who have publicly spoke bad about Skenderbeu or any nationalistic heroes.
Vermont's successful rebellion against the crown colonies to become an independent republic, and their role in helping the rebelling Colonials to achieve their first victories against the crown forces, turning the tide of the Revolutionary War would be a interesting topic to cover! It is not taught in schools and not enough good videos about it imo!
@@ChevyChase301 Yorktown? First victory at Ticoneroga led to British defeat in Boston. Then, Battle of Bennington was the turning point, as Vermonters and the rebelling Colonials, led by Stark defeated the Brits, who were invading from Canada and NY. Vermont Capitol never fell 💪
Skender Beg was a Serb. Born in a noble Serbian family. In 14 century the territory of present day Albania was part of Car Dushan's Serbian empire. After his death his son Uros (known as Uros the weak) allowed local noble families to take the power and fragment the empire. Skenderberg was an orthodox christian, which is the fate of the Serbs. His identity was later stolen by Albanians and they claim that he was an Albanian. The English explicitly wrote in the "Encyclopedia Britannica": "Djuradj Kastriot(ic) or Skender-beg is of Serbian ethnic origin." Oliver Schmitt, a famous Viennese albanologist, wrote in his recent study that not only was Kastriot of Serbian origin, but he did not fight for the Albanian state and people, but to renew his father's homeland. Oliver is accused in Albania of "committing sacrilege and insulting Albanian national pride!" The charter of Jovan Kastriotić, Skenderbeg's father, to the Hilandar monastery from 1426. The chronicle is called "The Second Hilandar Act", it was written in Cyrillic in the Serbian language. In the document, along with father Jovan, his sons Repos, Stanisa and Djuradj are also mentioned - namely, this is the second historical mention of Skenderbeg's name in Serbian form. The first, also in Serbian form, is in the "First Hilandar Act". Along with the Serbian form, history remembers the Latin George, Georgius - but it is never written anywhere under the Arnaut name "Gjergj". He also had a brother Kostadin, sisters Jelena, Mara, Vlajka, Angelina and Marica - also all of them are remembered and written in history only under the Serbian or Latin forms of his name.
The Serbs called Skanderbegs father theyre Self albanian. When Gjon kastrioti died and was burried in Hilandar the serbs give the name of the saint George tower "albanian tower", ". In his honor, the Saint George Tower of the monastery of Hilandar was known as the Albanian Tower (Serbian: Арбанашки пирг, romanized: Arbanaški pirg)
@@narthyseni8250 No real history? Whose monuments dating back to 9th century are in Kosovo? Serbian or Albanian? Show me one monument from 10th or 11th century that is Albanian on Kosovo? There are none. Whose army did fight the Turks in Kosovo in 1389? Albanian? Where is Skenderbeg father buried? Do you know? I bet you do not. So here is the answer for you. He is buried in the most famous Serbian orthodox monastery, Hilandar, on Mount Atos, present day Greece. Only Serbs of Orthodox Christian fate can be buried in a Serbian monastery. There are letters kept there form Skendereg. They are written in Serbian language using Serbian letters. So, the father was unquestionable a Serb. How about the son? Albanian? Give me a break.
We Bosniaks ,most of us,love Albania and Albanians. Kosovo is not Serbia.Sadly thousands of our Bosniak women and young girls suffered during the aggression ,(RAPED In Brutal Ways).We should be little devils also back then and stretched out Serbian women and girls but there is always time for that in the other round ( if it comes to it ).Srebrenica was also very sad and a war crime against us Bosnian Muslims.
The same country that loves turkey... He would be ashamed of you! Unless you are one of the good ones that actually know how turkey ruined the Balkans and the great ancient Hellenes and Illyrians!
Gjergj Kastrioti Skenderbeu is the only hero Albania has and will have..A great warrior intelligent and strong and makes us Albanians proud of been his people....It's a shame that the rest of Europe don't talk about him more in history books coz he definitely played a big role to protect Europe from the invasion of ottoman empire. We are europians and proud to be Albanians and descendent of Gjergj Kastrioti Skenderbeu 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱
Please man stop spreading bs Albania got more heros than Gjergj Kastrioti .. leka dukagjini keept Albania free from The ottomans even when gjergji died .. Alexander the Great Troy king agron king bardhyll king Justinian and more
@@dukagjini6610 Constantine the great/ saint Constantine sa well was Albanian/ Illyrian … he was born in naissus( nish) around 280 BS he moved to Rome, where he become Roman Emperor… Jakup Ferri was Albanian Millosh obiliq ose kopiliq vas Albanian too… Serbs stole this history.. And many more great kings and generals that Albania produced
@@dukagjini6610 we should clam them back because that will effect our history, identity… example: of we deny Constantine the great which the world knows/ it’s well documented in Rome that he was Albanian/ Illyrian/ born in naissus then we denying that we existed in those lands… and Serbs will gain from this
Says alboturk who steals Skenderbeg from Serbs, Alexander the great from Greeks and who knows from who you steal... You even say Illyrians and Etruscans were Albanians hahahahahahahha.
@@ЂурађКастриот-ю2э 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
@@ЂурађКастриот-ю2э 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.
@@ЂурађКастриот-ю2эHis 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.
@@ЂурађКастриот-ю2э 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.
Imagine what Skanderberg could have done with more support from the more powerful nations. Seems like Skanderberg did the impossible over and over again yet got little help. I wonder why they helped Hunyadi so much but not Skanderberg?
Don't forget = The title of Athleta Christi (in Latin: Champion of Christ). The popes gave a political character to this title from the 15th century, by attributing it to military leaders defending Christianity, especially against the Ottoman Empire. Among these leaders, we can cite: 🇭🇺 John Hunyad of Transylvania, representing the kingdom of Hungary. 🇦🇱 the Albanian hero Skanderbeg named Athleta Christi by popes Pius II and Nicholas V. 🇲🇩 the voivode Stephen III the Great of Moldavia, named Athleta Christi by Pope Sixtus IV. And the Serbs? So-called resistant? Where are they ? That's why the Serbs would dream to have such a hero !
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"..
Even the Serbs of the time considered Skanderbeg as Albanian, his father was buried in an Orthodox monastery, the Serbs named the tower where he is buried "Albanian tower🇦🇱"... source : ( Himelstir. p. 45 ).
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..
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..
bro at the time serbia not exist .. at the time the dalmatian soldiers and ungary soldiers living at the time not serbian moneyfacec .. long life great albania
Victory has a thousand fathers, defeat is an orphan. No body is trying to claim the serbian brankovic, who sold his daughter to the sultan and tried to Stop Skanderbeg from joining the Crusade.
Jhezus Nazarenus * Principi Emathie * Regi Albaniae * Terrori Osmanorum * Regi Epirotarum * Benedictat Te Jesus Nazarene Blesses Thee, Prince of Emathia, King of Albania, Terror of the Ottomans, King of Epirus.
Great warrior. They almost change the history with Hunyadi. Greetings from Hungary. 🇭🇺🇦🇱🇧🇦
you are a lion till The Suleiman borns 😅
@@aliakdemir9526 I. Selim, Mehmed, Murad, Bajezid was bigger and more succesful warlord. Suleiman "lived" their result. Suleiman' s alone (half) succesful campaign against the weakened hungarian kingdom. Thats all. With Suleiaman' s rule started the osman empire slowly decline.
Yes, they 'almost"... if Europe must helped a little..... Albania never had help from Europe. Austro - Hungary was the only ally we ever had during our dark periods.
Greetings to you! Greetings to Hungary! Glory to Kastrioti and to Huniady !
scanderbeg is serbian not albanian, he killed muslim albanians in Polog region in the west of the Skopje
One of the historical figures that definitely should be more widely known.
Ethnicity = Skanderbeg himself defined himself as Albanian ( Ethnicity ) (handwritten letter).
Ex :
" Ioannes Antonius princeps Taranti Georgio Albano salutem "
= Georgio the Albanian 🇦🇱 salutes the prince Giovanni of Taranto .
Source : (Pope Pius II , Commentarii)
The same prince Giovanni Antonio described Skanderbeg as "Georgio Albano"..
Geography = Skanderbeg always signed himself as "Dominus Albaniae" (Albanian: Zot i Arbërisë, English: Lord of Albania🇦🇱)
Source : Frazee, Charles A. (22 June 2006). Catholics and Sultans: The Church and the Ottoman Empire 1453-1923. Cambridge University Press. p. 33.
Even the Serbs of the time considered Skanderbeg as Albanian, his father (Gjon) was buried in an Orthodox monastery, the Serbs named the tower where he is buried "Albanian tower🇦🇱"...
Source : ( Himelstir. p. 45 )
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.
Moreover, even the descendants of Skanderbeg from the Arbëresh community qualify as Albanians and not as Serbs ...
Example : Shopie Castriota, loris Castriota etc ...
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
ATATURK’s left leg > skanderbeg :)
@@EtruscanTURK-fs9nn Ataturk was Albanian
Always outnumbered but never outmatched, what a Mad Lad.
that contry was always out numbered in every war they fought and somehow they managed to win/survive
well.. the best advantage he had was that he grew up among them and so he knew his adversary and their tactics very well.
Ethnicity = Skanderbeg himself defined himself as Albanian ( Ethnicity ) (handwritten letter).
Ex :
" Ioannes Antonius princeps Taranti Georgio Albano salutem "
= Georgio the Albanian 🇦🇱 salutes the prince Giovanni of Taranto .
Source : (Pope Pius II , Commentarii)
The same prince Giovanni Antonio described Skanderbeg as "Georgio Albano"..
Geography = Skanderbeg always signed himself as "Dominus Albaniae" (Albanian: Zot i Arbërisë, English: Lord of Albania🇦🇱)
Source : Frazee, Charles A. (22 June 2006). Catholics and Sultans: The Church and the Ottoman Empire 1453-1923. Cambridge University Press. p. 33.
Even the Serbs of the time considered Skanderbeg as Albanian, his father (Gjon) was buried in an Orthodox monastery, the Serbs named the tower where he is buried "Albanian tower🇦🇱"...
Source : ( Himelstir. p. 45 )
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.
Moreover, even the descendants of Skanderbeg from the Arbëresh community qualify as Albanians and not as Serbs ...
Example : Shopie Castriota, loris Castriota etc ...
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
As Serbian i think he was one of greatest caracter in Balkan even if he was albanian. A true hero.
ATATÜRK 🇹🇷 defeated total 800,000 coachraches 🇪🇺 :)
Thank you bro i repsect a serb like you who doesent spread propoganda about Skanderbeg. Do Not misunderstand me there Are albanians who spread propoganda too
🇦🇱🤝🇷🇸
@@bleblebleble25 Serbian legends are lies.
1)Vuk Brankovic fight to end against turks if you ask hystorians,, in legend he was traitor.
2)Knez Lazar who fight in battle in Kosovo was hero, he refuse to help other serbians states in Macedonia against turks, when Lazar was captures in Kosovo, serbian army run away from batle together with Brankovic who was wery efective in battle.Now some serbs say Skendeberg was serbian hahaha.Who know maybe Karadjordje was chinesse.
@@Aeneas-sg2rt It's really hard to find serbs like you who accept the truth and dont believe in stupid lies. If you are really a serbian I would like to talk with you more
@@bleblebleble25 He is not a Serb. In recent times, it has become a frequent occurrence that Albanians present themselves as Serbs and write that they agree with the fact that Skanderbeg is an ethnic Albanian, which of course is not true.
I was first introduced to Skandebeg on my visit to Tirana about 7 years ago. You can't miss the big statue of him on the main road through Tirana. Thanks for the additional information.
SKENDERBEG big SERBIAN WARIOR.
@@PANTER1389 What drugs are you using kid. Skanderbeg was 100% Albanian
@@PANTER1389 Don't know the english spoken here, in this documentary?
@@albostone6102 wtf?
@@PANTER1389 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.
Thank you for making this video. Skanderberg deserves more recognition.
Not enough people know how interesting the history of the balkans is. Can’t wait for more of your videos!
He needs a movie
He’s got one (a Soviet movie from the 50s) but could definitely use a new one!
One movie that was produced in 1950's between Albanians and Soviet Union and won a prize at the Cane Festival in France. But, definitely needs a Hollywood style movie. This is Albanian version with English subtitles.
th-cam.com/video/xj7IT1bxto8/w-d-xo.html
@@deciusx9720 Never saw that one. It any good?
Actually, Atatürk Movie is more appropriate.
and Name = Cries of Armenians :)
@@valley6824 whats better than having his name and doings spread all over the world and i totally disagree with you, the american movies are way better their cinematpgraphx is decades ahead of an other country so they if possible would do a great movie
He was the greats General, and the greats King never lived!
All Europe, should be a greatfull to him because Skenderbeg, safe them all from Turkish, expansions!
Lavdi a Gjergj Kastrijot, Skenderbeg 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙏🏻⛪️
This channel is really good. Hope that the algorithm rewards y'all!
Thank you James!
Proud to be Albanian 🇦🇱
You should watch acts 17 apologetics and pfander films and dcci ministries and christian prince and cira international on TH-cam and watch all the channels on TH-cam robert 😀😀😀
@@wrecked8746 first of all Muhammad did have black slaves so Muhammad is a racist pagan prophet and why Allah speech has dementia because the sentence in the Quran jumps from different sentences at the same time why wrecked
@@wrecked8746 so what the first chapter of the Quran the virgin Mary and the cow has to do with salvation wrecked
@@wrecked8746 then which Quran are you reading which one wrecked
@@wrecked8746 then which Quran hafs-shu-bah or khalaf-kahallad or al-duri-al-susl or warsh-al-azzraq or al-bazzi-qunbul or al-laith-al kisai or ibn-jamaz-ibn wardan or qaloon or ibn-shanboodh or al-asbahaani and theres more which one wrecked
Well done! National hero Skanderbeg is our pride 🇦🇱🇽🇰❤
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA SURE🤣
I just watched two videos of one Albanian historian and another politician saying how Skenderbegs parents were Serbian and how Skenderbeg should bring the us together... Is this possible?
@@not-much-but-enoughThe historians is Adrian Klosi
Adrian Klosi (like Olsi Jazexhi) is an anti-Albanian who has been called a traitor of the nation by many Albanians because he told anything for profit.
But the most important is that is the so-called "historians" are totally recognized as unreliable!
Just look at their reputations!
But Ardian Klosi will feel guilty about his lies.
Adrian Klosi (translator of Olivier Schmitt's book) and Olsi were inspired by Olivier Schmitt's book (a totally false book).
You give me historians and writers who are not qualified for their reliability (ask about these characters)
Example : The book of Olivier Schmitt (book completely admitted as false, by the recognized historians!)
By the way Olivier Schmitt declared HIMself later that his book was full of mistakes (in fact untrue), he declared that skanderbeg was Albanian on both sides (father, MOTHER) etc...
Martin barleti never said that skanderbeg was a Serb!
Give me the source where Martin Barleti said that Skanderbeg was Serbian!
I want the source in the official book of Martin Barleti and not in the book of Olivier Schmitt because it is Olivier Schmitt who invented this quote!
SOURCES !!!! = Vizion Plus TH-cam channel. "Skënderbeu" tërhiqet Schmitt - Vizion Plus - News - Lajme. Statement by Schmmit: 0/27 - 1/03
Olivier Schmitt wanted to make a buzz by declaring that the mother of Skanderbeg (Albanian hero) was Serbian, knowing perfectly well the tense relationship between Albanians and Serbs...
It worked, the Serbs bought in mass his book full of lies...
And when he filled his pockets well, he declared later that his book is false ...
So if Olivier Schmitt told anything in his book (and later assumed it), then Adrian Klosi also tell anything because they were inspired by Olivier Schmitt's book...
It's mathematical.
The Serbs were inspired by Olivier Schmitt's book full of lies (still today)...
@@ПредрагНиколић 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
@@ПредрагНиколић The House of Kastrioti (Albanian: Dera e Kastriotëve) was an Albanian noble family, active in the 14th and 15th centuries as the rulers of the Principality of Kastrioti. At the beginning of the 15th century, the family controlled a territory in the Mat and Dibra regions.
Exemple :
Great grandfather = Kostandin Kastrioti Mazreku (died ca. 1390) was an Albanian 🇦🇱 regional ruler in parts of the wider Mat and Dibër areas.
Grandfather = Pal Kastrioti was an Albanian 🇦🇱 medieval ruler in the latter part of the 14th century in northern Albania.
Source : Genealogy of the Kastrioti family, Du Cange (1680), Historia Byzantina duplici commentario
Ethnicity = Skanderbeg himself defined himself as Albanian ( Ethnicity ) (handwritten letter).
Ex :
" Ioannes Antonius princeps Taranti Georgio Albano salutem "
= Georgio the Albanian 🇦🇱 salutes the prince Giovanni of Taranto .
Source : (Pope Pius II , Commentarii)
The same prince Giovanni Antonio described Skanderbeg as "Georgio Albano"..
Geography = Skanderbeg always signed himself as "Dominus Albaniae" (Albanian: Zot i Arbërisë, English: Lord of Albania🇦🇱)
Source : Frazee, Charles A. (22 June 2006). Catholics and Sultans: The Church and the Ottoman Empire 1453-1923. Cambridge University Press. p. 33.
Skanderbeg's father etc ... (Gjon) was buried in Hilandar...
In his honor St. George, the tower of the monastery in Hilandar was known as the "Albanian tower🇦🇱" in reference to its Albanian origins .
Source: Slijepčević, Đoko M. (1983). Srpsko-arbanaški odnosi kroz vekove sa posebnim osvrtom na novije vreme (in Serbian). Himelstir. p. 45 .
SKANDERBEG - The last crusader
It is simple to arrange facts on words, but making it so simple for everyone to understand needs a hard work. Thank you for this brilliant documentary video, your work is always on point.
Crusaders got rekt by Saladin
@@tw3ist what do you mean I didn’t understand sorry..?
Saladin - 12th Century and Skanderbeg - 15th Century.
Don’t be confused “crusader” and the age of “crusades” are totally different part of history.
Skanderbeg was also undoubtedly The Most Successful commander amongst the entire Balkan resistance against the Ottomans and caused them the most difficulty of all, If we compare him to other legends like Hunyadi, Stephan lezarovich, Vlad Dracul & Michael the Brave, then Skanderbeg could easily be put on top with his amount of Military engagements won
Funny bit of trivia: Skanderbeg and Vlad Dracul knew each other, they were hostages together at Edirne. Vlad was traumatized by his time there, but Skanderbeg was the oldest among the hostages so he was something of an older brother figure to those princes and noblemen from all around the Balkans.
@@deciusx9720 Yeah that is true and amongst them was the son of sultan as well.
Interesting episode.. The history of the Balkans was not talked about much here in the western world. Thanks for enlightening me as I've been enjoying your videos focusing on the history in this part of the world! Thanks Oscar and look foreward to watching your next video! Keep up the great work!! 😀
Thank you Gary. Thanks to taking the time to learn how to animate these videos I can finally create quality content about Medieval and Ancient periods without risking it being too descriptive without footage. I plan to delve more into the Balkan, Ottoman Empire and ancient China throughout this year.
@@HoH congratulations for 100k subs
th-cam.com/video/yhb4SaECGbk/w-d-xo.html Something about Skenderbeg
@@Adamu-h2r About your comment =
Adrian Klosi (like Olsi Jazexhi) is an anti-Albanian who has been called a traitor of the nation by many Albanians because he told anything for profit.
But the most important is that is the so-called "historians" are totally recognized as unreliable!
Just look at their reputations!
But Ardian Klosi will feel guilty about his lies.
Adrian Klosi (translator of Olivier Schmitt's book) and Olsi were inspired by Olivier Schmitt's book (a totally false book).
You give me historians and writers who are not qualified for their reliability (ask about these characters)
Example : The book of Olivier Schmitt (book completely admitted as false, by the recognized historians!)
By the way Olivier Schmitt declared HIMself later that his book was full of mistakes (in fact untrue), he declared that skanderbeg was Albanian on both sides (father, MOTHER) etc...
Martin barleti never said that skanderbeg was a Serb!
Give me the source where Martin Barleti said that Skanderbeg was Serbian!
I want the source in the official book of Martin Barleti and not in the book of Olivier Schmitt because it is Olivier Schmitt who invented this quote!
SOURCES !!!! = Vizion Plus TH-cam channel. "Skënderbeu" tërhiqet Schmitt - Vizion Plus - News - Lajme. Statement by Schmmit: 0/27 - 1/03
Olivier Schmitt wanted to make a buzz by declaring that the mother of Skanderbeg (Albanian hero) was Serbian, knowing perfectly well the tense relationship between Albanians and Serbs...
It worked, the Serbs bought in mass his book full of lies...
And when he filled his pockets well, he declared later that his book is false ...
So if Olivier Schmitt told anything in his book (and later assumed it), then Adrian Klosi also tell anything because they were inspired by Olivier Schmitt's book...
It's mathematical.
The Serbs were inspired by Olivier Schmitt's book full of lies (still today)...
@@Adamu-h2r 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 inscription, addressed to Skanderbeg himself, means :
"Iesus Nazarenus Principi Emathie Regi Albaiae Terrori Osmanorum Regi Epirotarum Benedictat Te"
("Jesus of Nazareth bless you, prince of Mat, king of Albania, terror of the Ottomans, king of Epirus")
pah ok bro
Friend can you give me an argument/document/folder, whatever, that the name (Sqipetar) is mentioned in the balkan before the year 1043 AD
you think that you are someone and something "Old people of the Balkans" but the truth is that you are nobody and nothing newcomers, and before 1043 you were not in the Balkans,
@@greatpower8147 First of all I open a parenthesis about the name of Albania or Albanians quoted by Strabo (around 58-21/25) in the 1st century BC and Claudius Ptolemy (around 100 - 170 AD) in the 2nd century AD.
It derives from the name of an Illyrian tribe, the Albanoi, which was located around the city of Albanopolis (now Zgërdhesh located in the region of Krujë).
Moreover, even today, a region of Albania, from the north of Tirana (between the rivers Mat and Erzen), is called Albëni (gheg dialect) or Arbëri (tosk dialect).
But this name Albanoi with its various variants (Arbanites, Arvanites, Arvanitis, Arvanos, Arban, Arbani, Arbanon, Arnavuts, Arnauts, Arbëri, Arbër, Arbëni, Arbën, Albën, Albanois, or Albanians) really began to spread when the Albanian territories became a field of hostility and a buffer zone between Byzantines and the new Slavic invaders (Serbs, Croats etc.. ...) towards the beginning of the seventh century AD.
Several writers of the eleventh century, including Michel Attaliate and Jean Skyltzes, have recounted this kind of confrontation and widely spoken of these Albanian mountain tribes.
It is the Angevin chancelleries (Charles I of Anjou, brother of St Louis, proclaimed himself king of Albania in 1272) which, in the 13th century, conveyed the name of Albanian or Albanians, which spread rapidly, like wildfire, throughout Europe.
It should be noted that the Albanians never use this name (Albanian) to designate their own ethnic group: they call themselves Shqiptar, that is to say son or child of the eagle.
Source : Albanais: histoire du Moyen Age au XXe s, P.54, Mathieu AREF (Histoire et langue) ou l'incroyable Odyssée d'un peuple préhellénique.
@@greatpower8147 Origin of the name "Shqiptar" =.
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)!
@@greatpower8147 From the beginning of the Paleolithic the territory of Illyria (formerly, from the two banks of the Danube to Epirus) was occupied by men as proven by numerous discoveries of which the Karprina caves dating from approximately 160.000 years (currently in Croatia), the Gjatan cave (in Albania near Shkodër), etc. .
Eugene Pittard (🇫🇷) affirmed in 1916: "I have already said elsewhere that Albania seems to me to contain the most important archaeological and anthropological documents for what concerns the origins of the MOST ANCIENT POPULATIONS OF THE BALKAN PENINSULA; populations that, at the dawn of history, we see appear under the name of Illyrians!
Sources : (The peoples of the Balkans, antropological sketches, Neuchâtel / Paris)
Great video and full of great info. Keep it up bud 👍🇬🇧
There is a statue of him in London too
The King!🇦🇱 Thank you for the video!🙂
The story of Kruje sounds like something out of a video game
Im surprised Koei hasnt made a Dynasty Warriors style game about this story :P
There was an idea to make a Hollywood movie based on this Albanian warrior deeds, but it would cost millions of dollars, so let's hope they can put the money together and make a great movie.
Battle of Albulena was a masterpiece , when the battle was over Albanian army surrended 10.000 Ottoman soldiers a debate took place between Skanderbeg and his commanders Skanderbeg wanted to spare the life of Ottomans but Lek Dukagjini disagreed and gave the command 'Mbi ta' ENG 'on them' and a massive slaughter took place
Albulena o mor prita prita hehehe
@@trigerrdeadshady6173 E çfare ka me qeshe ketu ?!
"Battle of Albulena"
Skanderbeg had 7,000 Albanian solders, his nephew Hamza who betrayed him and knew all his tactics, together with great Ottoman general Isak Bey Evrnoz had 80,000 solders, and it resulted with Albanian victory, casualties = 30,000 killed Ottoman solders.
@@erickbehari6740 muslimane tevdekur, kjo eshte pjesa me e mire
The incident you're talking about is the Second Siege of Kruje in 1467. The Battle of Albulena was 10 years earlier.
We Bosniaks ,most of us,love Albania and Albanians. Kosovo is not Serbia.Sadly thousands of our Bosniak women and young girls suffered during the aggression ,(RAPED In Brutal Ways).We should be little devils also back then and stretched out Serbian women and girls but there is always time for that in the other round ( if it comes to it ).Srebrenica was also very sad and a war crime against us Bosnian Muslims.
Dont go in without nato support..Without nato bosnian girls will be stretched out again
This is amazing! Thank you for making a video about our people’s history.
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@HoH Awesome brother
And your people is?
@@zeljkoljiljak7256 did you at least watch the video and go straight to the comments lmao? What kind of question is that
@@zeljkoljiljak7256 his people are aLbANiAn
Serbs relax: Skanderbeg wrote letters where he says he is Albanian. You don't need to cry please. Have some dignity
On which language he wrote that latter?
@@bojanpavlovic5489 Latin, and Italian
@@bojanpavlovic5489
Letter from Skanderbeg to the Prince of Taranto:
ÒGiorgio, gentleman of Albania, to Giovanni Antonio, Prince of Taranto, greeting.
Having made a truce with the enemy of my religion I have not wanted that my friend remain (fraudato) of my aid. (Spesse?) times, Alfonso, his father, invited my help while I waged war against the Turks. Therefore I would be very ungrateful if I had not resisted (lÕistesso?) service to his son. I remember what your king did because now (non deve vedere succedergli? ) this who is his son? You adored his father, and why now do you try to throw out his son? Where did this power come from? Who has the power to set up the King of Sicily, you or the Roman Pontiff?
I came to aid Ferrante, son of the king and seat of the Apostolica. I came opposing your unfaithfulness and innumerable great betrayals in this kingdom. (NeÕ?) will you ever be unpunished for your perjury. This is the reason for my war against you. I merit this no less than I merited making war against the Turks, nor are you less Turk than them. (ImperoccheÕ vi sono alcuni?) that guide you in a straight line not to be of some sect. You my opponents the French and the names of those people, and those for the religion wage grand war.
I do not want to dispute ancient matters with you, matters that perhaps were much less than what was told about them. Certainly in our times the Aragonese armadas have often coursed the Aegean Sea, have plundered the Turkish coasts, have (riportata?) the prey of the enemies; and even today the Aragonese armies defend Troja from the jaws of the enemy. Why do I remember the old things and leave the new parts? If they change the family costumes and the plowmen of the kingdom, and the kings of the plowmen return? (NeÕ troverai nobilitaÕ piuÕ antica della virtuÕ.)
Nor can I deny that you are not with the obnoxious French nation, (imperoccheÕ) you being mainly in aid of King Alfonso, you hunted the French of this kingdom. I do not know now what new virtue shines in this. Perhaps it is some new star that you have now seen among the French?
Moreover, you scorned our people, and compared the Albanese to sheep, and according to your custom think of us with insults. Nor have you shown yourself to have any knowledge of my race. My elders were from Epirus, where this Pirro came from, whose force could scarcely support the Romans. This Pirro, who Taranto and many other places of Italy held back with armies.
I do not have to speak for the Epiroti. They are very much stronger men than your Tarantini, a species of wet men who are born only to fish. If you want to say that Albania is part of Macedonia I would concede that a lot more of our ancestors were nobles who went as far as India under Alexander the Great and defeated all those peoples with incredible difficulty. From those men come these who you called sheep. But the nature of things is not changed. Why do your men run away in the faces of sheep?
In the past the Albanese have (fatto?) experience if the Pugilese were armed; (neÕ) I would again find some who would have been able to aspired to my nature. I have well noted from the back how many of your soldiers are well armed but have never been able to see their helmets or (tanpoco?) the face except those that have become prisoners. (NeÕ?) I seek your house (Bastandomi? ) my own. Besides, it is well known that you often would have shot your neighbors for their possessions, as now you would force out the king of your house and your kingdom.
(Che se?) If I fall in the difficult task I have embarked on I will be buried as (mi vai?) wishing in your letter, will bring back my soul as a reward from the Chancellor of the universe, of God. Not only will I have perfected my intention, but also I will have planned and attempted some distinguished deed.
Good bye....Ó "
I remenber reading the newspaper, 50 years ago, and Albania was always ranked as the lowest income in the world. SOMEONE has hated Albania for some reason for a looong time.
Yes, that's very true! I'm glad you understood. But why this hatred "? A mystery. An Albanian free mason said before he died inexplicably very important words in an interview on Albanian TV.
The forgers of history,turks,bizantines and serbs.
@@albanialbania7068 God bless you.
Grande Skanderbeg 🇮🇹❤️🇦🇱
Thank you for this video you did a great job, Gjergj Kastrioti Skdenberbeu was the greatest Albanian europian hero ever, i wonder why eurpoeans don't mention him much more...He was a lion! Kicked the ottomans ass really hard. So proud being an Albanian and having him as my hero and inspiration!
Infact, Skanderbeg was one of the most prominent and famous figures in Europe during his lifetime AND after his death, there were books made for him in German, Italian, French, Spanish, English and much much more.
His fame died out due to the fact the modern people remember figures due to movies rather than books.
And im 100% guaranteed if a hollywood director makes an incredible movie for Skanderbeg he will be talked about alot more.
Atatürk kicked the ass of all Christians well
Gallipoli 😂
Great Offensive 😂
Armenia 😂
and he was a slav !
@@orion5813 no he wasnt.
@@orion5813 🤣🤣🤣
For a short video, this is well done. It still gives an idea against what odds he fought and won. To fully appreciate Skenderbeg’s military genius you have to read about his tactics on the battlefield more in detail
basically it's a hybrid of heavy fortifications and guerilla warfare / he would divide his entire army into Two Half's / the first half (all infantry) would be split up into many garrisons that would defend all heavily fortified major cities, causing a difficult siege for each of them / the Other half (all Cavalry) which Skanderbeg would lead himself, split up into many small mobile guerilla bands which Would constantly Ambush, raid & Charge Ottoman supply lines, camps & unprepared troops both during the Day & Night & would also constantly aid the cities that were under siege by constantly charging the Ottoman rear at an opportune moment, foccussing on destroying provisions and siege equipment which would prolong the siege until Winter, which in turn would force that Ottoman army to retreat again
@@aburoach9268 yes
Skanderbeg's life cannot be compressed into a 17 minute video without omitting military and political dealings.; which are most interesting.
My Albanian pride I will not hide.
My Pelasgian ancestors I will not disgrace.
My illyrian blood flows hot and true.
My Albanian people I will stand by you.
Through thick and thin till the day we die,
our Albanian flag 🇦🇱 WILL ALWAYS FLY HIGH
CASTRIOTA E BRANAI(GRANAI) Castriota -
First of Kastrioti kin "Der Serbe Branilo" written in Book "Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste, in alphabetischer Folge von genannten Schriftstellern", year 1868
Gjon Muzaka: "Skanderbeg is Serbian nature"
1573 in Sansovinova, "Historia univeryale racolta di Francesco Sansovino" clearly writes in Italian: "Very brave man, of serbian nation"
Writed by Theodoro Spandugino in 16th century.
Count Leopold Ranke History of the Servian People 1848 Leipzig, Germany:
"Skanderbeg's family is of Serbian origin ... he married Danica, the daughter of Duke Golem."
First man in history recorded with Castriot(ich) surname was called Branilo! This medieval noble who served serbian emperor Dushan, clearly beared serbian-slavic name. Tzar Stephan Dushan gave area of Jannina in Epirus to his servant Branilo to rule there. Thus, FIRST historical documents about Scanderbeg family origins are confirming his serbian origins from his father side.
Walter Laqueur (1976): ,,The most successful of the opponents to Turkish rule was George Castriota - Skanderbeg. A SERBIAN by birth, he had served with distincion with Turkish army for many years and was a governor of a sanjak"
Jireček, Konstantin (1876): "Skanderbeg's familie war Slavischen Ursprung. Seinen väterlichen Urgrossvater Branilo finden wir 1368 an dem Hofe Alexander's, des Herrn von Valona"
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Konstantin Jiricheck (1876): "Scanderbeg's family was of slavic origin. His grandfathers name was Branilo!"
@@dl7790 First of all, your authors were not admitted for their reliability because they did not show any work on the ancestry of the Skanderbeg lineage.
So that's why they were not admitted!
( You just have to inform yourself about your authors)
Then Muzaka never wrote in his book that Skanderbeg was of Serbian nature! Never!
This quote was invented by chauvinists.
Give this quote from Muzaka that is supposedly said in his book!
(You will not find this quote because he never wrote it in his book!)
Give us solid archives, not chauvinism or authors who have done NO WORK on the ancestry of Skanderbeb!
@@dl7790 Send source (page, book) not just name of autors
@@dl7790 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.
@@dl7790 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.
Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg's letter to the Prince of Taranto, Giovanni Orsini, who insulted the Albanians, claiming they were nothing more than sheep. The letter is dated 31 October 1460:
"...Moreover, you scorned our people, claiming the Albanians as nothing more than sheep, and according to your customs think of us with only insults. Nor have you shown yourself to have any knowledge of my race. Our elders were 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 your Tarantini, a species of wet men born only to catch fish. And since you proclaim Albania a part of Macedonia, then you grant also our elders as nobles who went as far as India under Alexander the Great, defeating all the people that came before them with great ease. From those men descend these who you call sheep. But the nature of things has not changed. Why do your men run away in the faces of sheep?"
Brilliant
Sources pls? Thanks.
Sounds more greek than albanian. Plus Pyrrhus go italy to help greeks against romans, at least this is the excuse to start a war.
@@johnnyt4282 Pirro was from Epirus so he was Albanian don’t forget that.
@@LuckyLupen The fact that part of Northern Epirus is occupied by Albania does not mean that the people that lived there 2,000 years ago where albanians.
It is stated in every source and ancient text that the majority of the people there were Greeks.
The sources about their bloodline and ancestry still says the same
The first reference in Albania Albanians and Albanian language is after the 11th century.
Try to look at the sources from European universities for example or from places around the world and not from books with nationalistic Albanian propaganda
I've never been so interested in history before!
So why didn’t Serbia help skenderbeg,because they wanted his land and didn’t want him to become strong
Fax
they are Serbs and they didn't Trust Albanians, that's why
They were and are inborn servants of turks, it’s written in their name “srbi - servi - servants”.
Skanderbeg actually was Serbian. According to documents of this time Skanderbeg didn’t spoke albanian but Serbian. All of his letters were written in Serbian-Cyrillic. His father and his brother were buried in Serbian monastery Hilandar on mount Athos, where his brother lived as a monk. All of his siblings had Slavic-Serbian names and his mother was Vojsava from Brankovic dynasty. His great grandfather Branilo (Serbian name), was the first mentioned Kastrioti and according to historians he was without doubt of Serbian origin. He was part of serbian Crnojevic noble family. They have even the same coat of arms.
@@Mikij92 Cyrillic is the illyric stolen by srbi, this is fact
We want a movie with him!
you have a film playd by russians and albanians(Gjergj Kastrioti Skenderbeg movie 1954 with English subtitles)
Mel Gibson should play him
Make Albania/Shqipëria great again!
As an Albanian I thank you for this video that is very informative and factual. I think, so far, this is the best description of Skanderbeg, without Albanian lore, and without the depreciative language used by anti-Albanian individuals.
Skanderbeg was an Albanian lord, but his wars and his loyalty was with the other Balkan people and the rest of Europe. Several Popes called him "Athleta Christi" for his role in fighting for his Albanian homeland and Christianity.
Lol "anti Albanian individuals". Why you dont got any name like "Skenderbeg" brothers or sisters,why that names aint popular in Albania,show respect to Skenderbeg and give your kids Slavic names which is used by Serbs in this whole region...Names like Staniša,Repoš,Mara,Jelena,Jela,all this names is directly from his brothers,sister and mother...
@@gloopdogg1145 It is not worth arguing with you; Skandebeg's name was George, last name Kastrioti - we still have both those names; George is spelled as "Gjergj" in Albanian; it is mostly a Christian name, but Muslims also name their sons Gjergj in Albania along with Catholics and Orthodoxs.
Yes, Stanisha and others feld to Serbia after Ottomans took over Medieval Albania; George's father, John (Gjon) was a Medieval Albanian Prince (Arberia) and he was vassal to Serbian king; Principality of Arber had Serbia as their closest ally. Albanians and Serbs became enemies only after 1911.
@@gloopdogg1145 Also, Skander is a popular name among Muslim Albanians. I know one Orthodox Albanian who is named Skender, but that was done because two families; one Muslim and one Orthodox were friends so the Muslim named his son Kristo (yes Christ), and the Orthodox named his son Skender (a Muslim name in honor of Alexander the Great of Macedonia).
@@gloopdogg1145 Not sure if I told you that Russians made a movie about Skanderbeg - they said he was Albanian, never mentioned any relationship to Serbia.
Part of my family is Muslim, but they celebrate Saint George Day.
Great ALBANIAN hero....
Yeah, older than Albania... And with Serbian parents and descendants.
@@Epimahos 😂😂😂 Albania is 900BC Skenderbeu is 15century learn history first ...
@@xhoi96
Yeah, and was formed by smurfs and existed in parallel dimension, because in this dimension, Albania is first time formed in 1912. under the patronate of Austro-Hungarian and British empires. And about Skenderbeg, what language he spoke and wrote? Do you have or know any document from that epoch in albanian? A single book, chrysobule, anything? Because there is plenty of those in Serbian. Not to speak about topology.
@@Epimahos "Moreover you scorn our people, claiming the Albanians are nothing more than sheeps, and according to your customs think of us with only insults. It would seem you know of the origin of our race. Our elders were Epirotes (Shqipetars) 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 exist 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 as part of Macedonia, you grant also then, our elders as nobles who went as far as India under Alexander the great, defeating all the people that came before them with great erase.
From those men descend these who you call sheep, but the natures of things is not changed. Why do your men run away in the face of sheep?"
31, October, 1460. Letter to Prince of Taranto.
-Gjergj Kastrioti "Skenderbeg".
@@blockie9706
False. And even so, what does it have to do with questions I proposed?
Biggest hero who ever has lived 🙏❤️❤️
Fun fact:
There was a similar rebellion in Ottoman Bosnia, led by Husein Gradaščević who was known as the 'Dragon of Bosnia'
This is very interesting! It warrants a video on its own... I'll get to reading!
Also Vuk Grgurević Branković "Zmaj Ognjeni Vuk" (Vuk the fiery dragon) who ruled as despot in northern Serbia and fought the Ottomans.
Never heard of him until now, why is that? 😯
Imagine a movie on this dude! 🤴
Very informative video! 🔥
People forget something very important. Our hero was always in the field fighting alongside his men, unlike many famous generals that always stood behind their man and just had to point fingers to give orders. Now that's quite a difference right?
Hey Oscar, lets celebrate 100.000 aubscribers my friend....you are nearly there. Congrats for another great video, I know how much effort you put to make this one with all the new technics you have learnt recently. Kudos to you.
Thank you Canthama - it is very exciting indeed! Happy to have you with the channel for such a long time.
SKANDERBEG HERO 🇦🇱 OF ALBANIA AND EUROPEANS
Too bad Hollywood would never produce a movie about this guy
Yep. Too politically incorrect. Can't have have the Muslims as the imperialists. Would upset the narrative.
@@shanebrown2009 He has received the title from the Vatican "Athlete of Christ" defender of Christianity what are you saying ??? He deserves a movie more than a few fictional characters
The only movie that was done about the ottoman empire was "The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683". And even that one was not done by Hollywood but was a cooperation of Italy and Poland.
he was born a orthodox grew up as a muslim and died as a catholic, the true albanian face🙌🏻🇦🇱
🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷
@@jamustabella9775 🦃🦃🦃
Amazing! Thank you very much for this video!🇦🇱
Always love to learn more about history, subbed!
So basically the Serbs blocked Albanians under Skanderbeg twice from helping the crusaders? Once in the Battle of Varna and the second time in the Second Battle of Kosova...
This just goes to show who was fighting the Ottomans and who was collaborating with the Ottomans!!! REMEMBER THAT
Skanderbeg is Serb, remember that.
@@ПредрагНиколић what did you smoke?! Did you not hear the documentary?? He clearly said that Skanderbeg is Albanian!
@@ПредрагНиколић Albanians are thracians so no my friend he is not a serbian.
@@ПредрагНиколић The House of Kastrioti (Albanian: Dera e Kastriotëve) was an Albanian noble family, active in the 14th and 15th centuries as the rulers of the Principality of Kastrioti. At the beginning of the 15th century, the family controlled a territory in the Mat and Dibra regions.
Exemple :
Great grandfather = Kostandin Kastrioti Mazreku (died ca. 1390) was an Albanian 🇦🇱 regional ruler in parts of the wider Mat and Dibër areas.
Grandfather = Pal Kastrioti was an Albanian 🇦🇱 medieval ruler in the latter part of the 14th century in northern Albania.
Source : Genealogy of the Kastrioti family, Du Cange (1680), Historia Byzantina duplici commentario
Ethnicity = Skanderbeg himself defined himself as Albanian ( Ethnicity ) (handwritten letter).
Ex :
" Ioannes Antonius princeps Taranti Georgio Albano salutem "
= Georgio the Albanian 🇦🇱 salutes the prince Giovanni of Taranto .
Source : (Pope Pius II , Commentarii)
The same prince Giovanni Antonio described Skanderbeg as "Georgio Albano"..
Geography = Skanderbeg always signed himself as "Dominus Albaniae" (Albanian: Zot i Arbërisë, English: Lord of Albania🇦🇱)
Source : Frazee, Charles A. (22 June 2006). Catholics and Sultans: The Church and the Ottoman Empire 1453-1923. Cambridge University Press. p. 33.
@@ПредрагНиколић Even the Serbs of the time considered Skanderbeg as Albanian, his father was buried in an Orthodox monastery, the Serbs named the tower where he is buried "Albanian tower🇦🇱"...
source : ( Himelstir. p. 45 )
I can not hear his history without having gooebumps. For me he is a mix between God and King. Kofte lavdu Gjergj Kastrioti 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱
He was never King
You are right, he was God
Skanderbeg and Vlad of Wallachia should be considered heroes of Europe.
Vlad a hero the one who butchered is own people
@@shqiperia60 Hey, sometimes you have to take out the trash in your midst.
What did Albanians 🇦🇱 have before the Ottoman invasion?
1. Albanians had a University in 1380 in Durrës. To give you an idea: Germany opened its first university, 6 years after Durrës (Heidelberg University).
2. Albanians had 6 fully developed cities as much as Florence, Venice, Marseille or Paris. (Durrës, Shkodra, Drishti, Lezha, Berat and Preveza).
3. Albanians had the aristocratic class with 8 noble families (Balshaj, Topiaj, Muzakaj, Kastrioti, Arianiti, Zebenishta, Spataj and Dukagjini) connected by marriage even with the Habsburgs and the Bourbons.
4. Albanians had the humanist philosophers, who with their genius ideas, were advisers to the imperial families in Hungary, Italy and Austria (Gjon Gazhuli, Pal Ungjëlli, Leonik Tomeo and Gjon Durrsaku).
5. Albanian cities had statutes and were governed by democracy while at the same time America for example it was governed by the Cherokee Indians or the Aztec tribes who still drank human blood and lived as cannibals.
6. In Durrës, intellectualism was so high that we have documented in the 12th century for the first time the note of protest of an Orthodox Metropolitan, who writes to Constantinople, against slavery, 300 years before it started as a debate in Europe.
7. In Durrës, trade was done even with Tunisia, Ukraine and France, since the 5th century. While at the same time for example the Scandinavian countries still lived by worshiping the tree or the mountain.
8. The Church of Albania had issued a Cardinal (and a cardinal was no small thing then).
What happened next? The Ottomans just came and for 500 years made that every Albanian forgot who they really were.
Interesting that George Washington's mother is said to be Albanian. And Washington's fighting style was similar to Skanderbeg's
Well based on the information about Marie Bala ( Mary Ball ) was from the same region as the Lekë Dukagjini which was Skendeberg's right hand. As a child of an Albanian mother l can see why Washington would have been influenced to study Skenderbeg's strategy and later on applied similar strategies himself. Of course the information of his mother's identity is still kept off public since mainstream still doesn't confirm her roots.
I didn't believe it, but I found the sources of Uni of California Berkeley and Institute of biochemistry and genetics Schaffhausen, Switzerland
She was Albanian single Mom in America :) He was only half Albanian
@@TheAlien101 There is no evidence I could find she was Albanian.
I’ve heard that too bro. But when we admit it , we get laughed at !
Skanderbeg was albanian 🇦🇱
Greetings from Flash Point History
I like this video it is my favourite I will never forget this in my life it is mesmerising. Very nice work thanks
There is only one country who's always been with us and that's Hungary. We have a great connection between but we never talk about it. But we all love u Hungary and we never forget.
Curious fact - Albania and Hungary are the only countries in Europe surrounded, in nearly their entirety, by their own populations, Albanians and Hungarians.
Just a history fact:
When the Arabs asked "what is his name?" , pointing to the figure of Alexander, they thought that the Christians told them "Al Eksander", since "al" in their language is the equivalent of "the" (e.g. the emperor)... Then they also misspelled the x, and instead of pronouncing it "eks" they wrote "esk"... So from then onwards they call Alexander "Iskander", or even Skender/Skander, until this day....
fun fact:
but there is no meaning in arabic nor turkish for eskender. it is a pronouncing matter. they may have mispelled it because it doesn't pass their language. in turkey the greeks are called as "yunanlılar". "yunanlı" or "yunan" for greek and "yunanlılar" for greeks. "-lar" ending makes it plural in turkish. it comes from "yunan" which was first used by persians referring to "ionian". it is a pronouncing style of a different language. mika is michael in nordic languages which comes from mikail. marry is a different pronounce of marriam . jesus is mispelling of isa.
"istanbul" is also a different pronounce of constantinapolis. there is no meaning for "istanbul" in turkish. early pronounce of it was "istanpol" and more early versions were "asitane". they used the name how they first heard it.
make a little research for the animal sounds and how they reflected from each languages.
for example for dog sound, all the countries have different sounds.
hav hav, graw, wow wow, nom nom...etc
it is not because there is a different meanings in each languages, it is because what they hear when it makes that sound.
japanese cannot understand difference between "r" and "l", arabs cannot understand "p" "b" and "f" difference, turks sometines use "k" "g" and "kh" for each other. west cannot understand "kh" or "ch" or "x" voice. so the christianity is spelled with "k" in west but it is with "h which comes from throat" in original.
russians say "varvara" for "barbara". turks say "farfara". germans understand it as "fau" sound when it starts with "v".
by the way another fun fact:
the "voldemort" in harry potter fiction is a variation for "wladimir" in russion. they use the different variation of russian names for the bad characters in their tales.
@@OK-ok2cw so r u offended cause i said "misspelled" instead of "misheard"?...
There is a town called Iskenderun in the southern border of modern Turkey which was formerly known as Alexandretta...
Also, Constantinople is an entirely different issue... It was emperor's Konstantinos the Great City... Constantino's Poli (Polis in Greek means City, that's where Police comes from as well)....... But the Turks probably didn't want their great conquest to have the name of an emperor, and they changed it.. the legend says that they heard the Byzantines saying in Greek "Εις την Πόλη" aka "is tin poli" which meant "to the City", and City with a capital letter was only the greatest city of all, Constantinople... So from the phrase "is tin Poli" came "Is-tan-bul"...
As for the Japanese and Russian, I don't even have a clue, maybe you are right.....
@@konstantinosserres3598 I know the city Iskenderun(Alexandretta) since it is my hometown. A small city in Antioch. Also there is Alexanderia in Eygpt which is prounounced same way. I am not offended but I say it is not because of the meaning, it is because of the pronouncing. in arabic, "x" is pronounced as "isk" not as "iks". These cities have hellenistic culture and most of them protect their original names. For example there is also a city called Defne in Antioch which takes its roots from Daphne the Greek mitologic figure.
@@OK-ok2cw both of you have forgotten to mention that the term hellen elen and the term Greek they are not of Greek origin...according to Aristotle the term (grai graikos) is a word of Illyro Albanian origin . used in epir for a Doric tribe...instead the term elen helen it seems to have Semitic origins
@@lagjescuni5482 Aristotle never ever mentions anywhere the word ALBANIAN cause at his time Albanians as we know them today did not exist .
2 nd , could you tell us what in modern Albanian or in Illyrian grai or grekos means ? Of curse not ,,, because it does not translate in youre language .
3 Elen -Helen seems to be of Semitic origin ? Where did you find this ?
in Semitic languages it means nothing because there is no meaning .
The word Hellene is the derivative of the word HELLAS witch is compromised of two words ( HENSE THE DOUBLE LL ) HEL-LAS HEL means high and, LAAS witch means stone,,, in other words ,,, people of stones or mountain people or , people born from the earth ( it has to do with with Greek mythology the story of Deukalion and Pyrra ) . Could you please tell us what the word HELLAS means in Semitic ? of course not because it means nothing .
Stop spreading nonsense in matters beyond youre understanding and don't believe all the idiotic literature that Greek haters are righting ,,, read and you will find the truth , and then you will be a better man
Respect for Skenderbeg from Macedonia 🇲🇰
Im proud for my country hero
You got a new fan!! I’m Albanian so I love this video
Glad i found this channel again.
I knew the name but not the deeds. Thanks for this great video!
That's our guy ✊
Hello sir, some inaccuracies of this video have to be noted:
1-The first thing that gets into the eye its the inaccuracy of the map, where many venetian posessions are not shown correctly like the city of Durrazzo/Durres wich at the time and still today it is the most important coastal city in albania and didn't fall untill 1501. The city of Scutari/Shkoder its not shown in the map while it was the most important city of the northern albanian venetian held fortifications. Some southern albanian towns like Himara supported Skanderbeg and aren't shown in the map. The northern italian venetian state was much larger at the time controlling cities as far as Brescia and Bergamo in Lombardy and many greek islands like Corfu, Negroponte (Euboea), Naxos ecc. were venetian held islands .
2- Costantinople didn't fall until 1453 while in the video during the time of the early rebellion(1443-1448) its shown as an ottoman city, after Murad II retreated to Edirne(Adrianople) after failing in the siege of Kruja (1450) he passed away that winter and was succeded by Mehmet II who turned his attention to Costantinople and conquered it in 1453.
Events to be noted:
The first Ottoman-Venetian war of 1463-1479 was a crucial event in the area not mentioned in the video where after the death of Skanderbeg in 1468 the Serene Republic took over albanian fortesses like Kruja and Lezhe wich both fell in 1478 where in the video it is said that it fell 10 years after Kruja. Then followed Shkodra wich fell in 1479 and the last albanian bastion would remain Durres held by Venice wich fell in 1501.
Overall the video has good graphics quality however the historic details and events have to be accurate in order for people to better undertand the geopolitical events that shaped the area in the way we know it today.
Thank you for your content sir and I hope in the future more high quality videos will be released, as im interested in further historic content.
Have a good day. (:
Hey Blendi, thank you for taking the time to write such an insightful comment.
I appreciate you pointing out things that could be improved. This channel is just me, and being only human I occasionally overlook certain things (such as the Venetian coastal cities) or think omitting details will not matter to the narrative (Adding Shkoder to the map, or since I mentioned the 1453 conquest of Constantinople in the first section, since the video is long I did not want to draw too much attention to it later on, when it was chronologically fitting).
Still, I strive to improve every video. As much as I want my videos to be informative and entertaining, I also learn a lot from the comment section after upload thanks to people like yourself.
Take care,
Oscar
@@HoH Thank you to you too Oscar, I really appreaciate your reply.
thank you for this beautiful part of our history
Just imagine what happend if brankovic accept Skanderbeg to get into serbia land and unite with Huniadi .
SKANDERBEG IS SHIELD OF EUROPE
The brankovic gave Even his daughter to the Sultan. The Serbs are the traitors of the Balkan
Imagine what he could have done if he comanded a big army like the ottoman army...
Imagine his army were trained in military warfare like he was 🐉
Very good video! You really deserve more for your work!
Thanks a lot!
@@HoH Thank you too for these amazing documentaries! Greetings from Albania!
The Most underrated and unknown Patriot Fighter of all time I mean he was an absolutely Legend. Proud to have the roots of him ! 🇦🇱
Lol
@@CaptainHarlock-kv4zt jealous much Jorgo?
@Andrej Serbia the nation of stolen lands and history. Now it wants to steal heroes of other countries. Nice. What’s next. You gonna claim Jesus Christ as well.
@Andrej Kobil/Kopil in Albanian means Bastard. I am also not sure he was a Serb. So you know sht. You weren’t alive back then.
@Andrej you Will Never find a Document of 14-15-16 Century where he is described as a Serbian or Even Namen with IC or VIC in the end of the Name. But Kopili !
thank you very much for this video 🇦🇱❤🙏🇺🇲
as someone with Albanian heritage thank you very much
Congrats on 100k
Thank you Gavin!
Who else is here because of history marche?
What a great video dude, respect and keep it up with this good content 👏👍
"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
It’s true. A lot of imams and traitors talk bad on Skenderbeu but the government usually deals with them nice and swiftly. The mosque part is true also. Erdogan doesn’t like the fact that when he visits Albania he has to be reminded by a massive statue of Skenderbeu so he though building a giant mosque within close proximity of it would make him feel better. The truth is only 2% of Muslims in Albania attend mosque or are practising Muslims. And everyone in Albania from Orthodox to Muslim respect and love him.
Albania takes it very seriously when you talk bad on nationalistic heroes 😅 as an example, Albanian police have arrested imams who have publicly spoke bad about Skenderbeu or any nationalistic heroes.
Lord of all Albania Gjergj Kastrioti 🇦🇱🇽🇰
Srbin 💪
@@majkasrbija6063Albanian*
Amazing video!
GLORY TO KING AGRON ILLIRYA GLORY TO KING KARL TROPOJA ARBANON GLORY TO KASTRIOTI ILLIRYA WILL CAME BACK
Vermont's successful rebellion against the crown colonies to become an independent republic, and their role in helping the rebelling Colonials to achieve their first victories against the crown forces, turning the tide of the Revolutionary War would be a interesting topic to cover! It is not taught in schools and not enough good videos about it imo!
“Turn the tide” stfu the north was lost due to just how large the British presence was in Canada and New York. Yorktown won the war
@@ChevyChase301 Yorktown? First victory at Ticoneroga led to British defeat in Boston. Then, Battle of Bennington was the turning point, as Vermonters and the rebelling Colonials, led by Stark defeated the Brits, who were invading from Canada and NY. Vermont Capitol never fell 💪
You’re the most specific informative I’ve heard of ,from the foreign videos 🇦🇱👐🇦🇱
Most be the most famous albanian along Mother Theresa 🧐
He is not Albanian, he is Serb, his ancestors are Serbs, Pavle, Jovan, Djuradj.
@@ПредрагНиколић a what about Mother Theresa? ;)
@@HistoriaenCeluloide She's an Albanian from Macedonia.
@@ПредрагНиколић yeh right everyone is serb
@@ПредрагНиколић Jezuzoviç is Serboviç godoviÇ
Europe would be Ottoman if it wasn't for him. And of course Hunyadi and Dracul. There are no more men like these guys. Huge balls. 🎩
FR, we are in soft times!
Thanks a lot for this amazing. Thank you so much. I never forget your kind help. Very nice work
It's my pleasure!
@@HoH thank you again
Skender Beg was a Serb. Born in a noble Serbian family. In 14 century the territory of present day Albania was part of Car Dushan's Serbian empire. After his death his son Uros (known as Uros the weak) allowed local noble families to take the power and fragment the empire. Skenderberg was an orthodox christian, which is the fate of the Serbs. His identity was later stolen by Albanians and they claim that he was an Albanian.
The English explicitly wrote in the "Encyclopedia Britannica": "Djuradj Kastriot(ic) or Skender-beg is of Serbian ethnic origin." Oliver Schmitt, a famous Viennese albanologist, wrote in his recent study that not only was Kastriot of Serbian origin, but he did not fight for the Albanian state and people, but to renew his father's homeland. Oliver is accused in Albania of "committing sacrilege and insulting Albanian national pride!"
The charter of Jovan Kastriotić, Skenderbeg's father, to the Hilandar monastery from 1426. The chronicle is called "The Second Hilandar Act", it was written in Cyrillic in the Serbian language. In the document, along with father Jovan, his sons Repos, Stanisa and Djuradj are also mentioned - namely, this is the second historical mention of Skenderbeg's name in Serbian form. The first, also in Serbian form, is in the "First Hilandar Act". Along with the Serbian form, history remembers the Latin George, Georgius - but it is never written anywhere under the Arnaut name "Gjergj". He also had a brother Kostadin, sisters Jelena, Mara, Vlajka, Angelina and Marica - also all of them are remembered and written in history only under the Serbian or Latin forms of his name.
The Serbs called Skanderbegs father theyre Self albanian. When Gjon kastrioti died and was burried in Hilandar the serbs give the name of the saint George tower "albanian tower",
". In his honor, the Saint George Tower of the monastery of Hilandar was known as the Albanian Tower (Serbian: Арбанашки пирг, romanized: Arbanaški pirg)
@@Dukgjin 👈 🤣🤣🤣
Albanian historian Olsi Jazexhi on the fake history of Albania: th-cam.com/video/WHJAE0pttfw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=PBga59q7SlJt0Gow
big dreams for a nation with no real history that tries to steal Albanian legacy
@@narthyseni8250 No real history? Whose monuments dating back to 9th century are in Kosovo? Serbian or Albanian? Show me one monument from 10th or 11th century that is Albanian on Kosovo? There are none. Whose army did fight the Turks in Kosovo in 1389? Albanian? Where is Skenderbeg father buried? Do you know? I bet you do not. So here is the answer for you. He is buried in the most famous Serbian orthodox monastery, Hilandar, on Mount Atos, present day Greece. Only Serbs of Orthodox Christian fate can be buried in a Serbian monastery. There are letters kept there form Skendereg. They are written in Serbian language using Serbian letters. So, the father was unquestionable a Serb. How about the son? Albanian? Give me a break.
Albanian historian Olsi Jazexhi on the fake history of Albania: th-cam.com/video/WHJAE0pttfw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=PBga59q7SlJt0Gow
King of Albanians🇦🇱
If Serbians let Skenderbe unite with Yunyadi the balkan will by stronger then and today.
We Bosniaks ,most of us,love Albania and Albanians. Kosovo is not Serbia.Sadly thousands of our Bosniak women and young girls suffered during the aggression ,(RAPED In Brutal Ways).We should be little devils also back then and stretched out Serbian women and girls but there is always time for that in the other round ( if it comes to it ).Srebrenica was also very sad and a war crime against us Bosnian Muslims.
Skanderbeg our pride 🇦🇱🇽🇰
The same country that loves turkey... He would be ashamed of you! Unless you are one of the good ones that actually know how turkey ruined the Balkans and the great ancient Hellenes and Illyrians!
@@geodim3904 its not that simple as it looks like ur talkin about things u dont know well
Gjergj Kastrioti Skenderbeu is the only hero Albania has and will have..A great warrior intelligent and strong and makes us Albanians proud of been his people....It's a shame that the rest of Europe don't talk about him more in history books coz he definitely played a big role to protect Europe from the invasion of ottoman empire. We are europians and proud to be Albanians and descendent of Gjergj Kastrioti Skenderbeu 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱
Please man stop spreading bs Albania got more heros than Gjergj Kastrioti .. leka dukagjini keept Albania free from
The ottomans even when gjergji died .. Alexander the Great Troy king agron king bardhyll king Justinian and more
@@dukagjini6610 Constantine the great/ saint Constantine sa well was Albanian/ Illyrian … he was born in naissus( nish) around 280 BS
he moved to Rome, where he become Roman Emperor…
Jakup Ferri was Albanian
Millosh obiliq ose kopiliq vas Albanian too… Serbs stole this history..
And many more great kings and generals that Albania produced
@@ofcourse4105 his name was marash nikoll kopliqi from drenica bro Albanians created all these kings and prince but we gave them out because of Islam
@@dukagjini6610 we should clam them back because that will effect our history, identity… example: of we deny Constantine the great which the world knows/ it’s well documented in Rome that he was Albanian/ Illyrian/ born in naissus then we denying that we existed in those lands… and Serbs will gain from this
@@dukagjini6610 can you please write about marsh nikoll kopiliqi? Little is known for this national hero
Donald Tumpovic =. Ist serbian origin 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Serbian. Logic
Says alboturk who steals Skenderbeg from Serbs, Alexander the great from Greeks and who knows from who you steal... You even say Illyrians and Etruscans were Albanians hahahahahahahha.
@@ЂурађКастриот-ю2э 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
@@ЂурађКастриот-ю2э 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.
@@ЂурађКастриот-ю2эHis 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.
@@ЂурађКастриот-ю2э 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.
Great video 👌
Let’s hope for a better future of Albania and all Balkans to EU soon
All Balkans besides Serbia.
Congratulations to 100 000K subs Oskar! :D
Thanks! 😃
By this video not only i learned more about skender beg but i also learned the real reason why Serbs are trying to claim skender beg and his family
Beacuse the orthodox church have always faked the Albanian history and destroyed all our Pagan-Churches and build orthodox churches on them.
Imagine what Skanderberg could have done with more support from the more powerful nations. Seems like Skanderberg did the impossible over and over again yet got little help. I wonder why they helped Hunyadi so much but not Skanderberg?
Im thankful Im albanian, and Gjergj Kastrioti Skenderbeu its my national hero! ❤🖤
Fantastic video, new subscriber! Would you consider doing a video about Starina Novak? Thank you
Dont listen to the serbians trying to claim every balkan hero remeber he called himself the king of arbaron and never spoke serbian
Don't forget = The title of Athleta Christi (in Latin: Champion of Christ).
The popes gave a political character to this title from the 15th century, by attributing it to military leaders defending Christianity, especially against the Ottoman Empire.
Among these leaders, we can cite:
🇭🇺 John Hunyad of Transylvania, representing the kingdom of Hungary.
🇦🇱 the Albanian hero Skanderbeg named Athleta Christi by popes Pius II and Nicholas V.
🇲🇩 the voivode Stephen III the Great of Moldavia, named Athleta Christi by Pope Sixtus IV.
And the Serbs? So-called resistant?
Where are they ?
That's why the Serbs would dream to have such a hero !
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"..
Even the Serbs of the time considered Skanderbeg as Albanian, his father was buried in an Orthodox monastery, the Serbs named the tower where he is buried "Albanian tower🇦🇱"...
source : ( Himelstir. p. 45 ).
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..
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..
bro at the time serbia not exist .. at the time the dalmatian soldiers and ungary soldiers living at the time not serbian moneyfacec .. long life great albania
Thank You For This Great Video.
He was the greatest of all time for humanity
I thought only Greece claimed him to be Greek now Serbia also claim him who know maybe in the future China will claim him too
Victory has a thousand fathers, defeat is an orphan. No body is trying to claim the serbian brankovic, who sold his daughter to the sultan and tried to Stop Skanderbeg from joining the Crusade.
All those he did look like Chinese lol 😂😂😂
Jhezus Nazarenus * Principi Emathie * Regi Albaniae * Terrori Osmanorum * Regi Epirotarum * Benedictat Te
Jesus Nazarene Blesses Thee, Prince of Emathia, King of Albania, Terror of the Ottomans, King of Epirus.
An incredible figure in history! RROFT SHIPRIA! RROFT KOSOVA!