Ottoman Wars: Skanderbeg and Albanian Rebellion DOCUMENTARY

Previously within our animated historical documentary series on the Ottoman Wars, we have covered the battles of Kosovo (bit.ly/2JI3F0p), Nicopolis (bit.ly/2zUNRre), Ankara (bit.ly/2uW7r0D), Varna (bit.ly/2JIK2VG), Second Kosovo, Constantinople (bit.ly/2uELWlI), Belgrade, Targoviste and Otlukbeli (bit.ly/2JOBlcQ), Vaslui and Valea Alba (bit.ly/2C9Cm0l). However, we deliberately omitted the rebellion and resistance of the Albanian leader Gjergj Kastrioti - Skanderbeg, as his war against the Ottoman sultans Murad II and Mehmed II stretched for more than 25 years. In this new video, we describe the overall rebellion and the battles of Torvioll, Kruje, Albulena, and Ohrid.
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Sources:
Franz Babinger - Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time
John van Antwerp Fine - The Late Medieval Balkans
Н. Н. Розова - Повесть о Скандербеге
Uzunçarşılı İsmail Hakkı - Osmanlı Tarihi
Finkel, Caroline - Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire
İnalcık, Halil - Osmanlı İmparatorluğu Klasik Çağ (1300-1600)
Necdet Sakaoğlu - Bu Mülkün Sultanları - 36 Osmanlı Padişahı
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[@KingsandGenerals]

Thank you very much for being with us! 300k! It is such an unbelievable number, we are honestly lost for words. Just know that, we appreciate you and will work even harder to provide more and better content! Participate in the survey and let us know what you think goo.gl/AxhqhA On September 7, we will be conducting a quiz among our viewers. This event will test your historical knowledge and put you up against other like-minded enthusiasts. Check it out here: facebook.com/events/1660241587419320/ Regarding this video: Many events that happened during the rebellion of Skanderbeg were covered in our the past videos (bit.ly/2osUuZw), so we decided not to repeat them again. This series is really hard to make - a million little things should be accounted for.

[@ahmedmehmood8462]

The way you show the Armies in your videos have you maybe thought about making that into an app game at all??

[@gianlucaborg195]

The video is excellent and anyone whom watched the others, or has any knowledge of the history of the time, would easily understand. These documentaries are excellent in that way!

[@dizzywizard9771]

not even enough subscribers for your channel

[@christermi]

I wonder why the Turks keep asking for more Ottoman videos lmao

[@christermi]

I don't like tests , but i love history lmao 🤣

[@lastlord312]

As a Turk i would like to say that Skenderbeg is a very respected figure in Turkish history books, he covers more place than most of the Turkish rulers, it is written that upon learning about his passing 2. Mehmed said "europe lost its shield" to show his respect to him. He died undefeated even though he was facing the biggest force of that time. Rest in Peace Skenderbeg and greetings to all Albanians reading this.

[@farijeleka2890]

😊👏👏👏🙏

[@Narrowcros]

Modern Turks want to kiss all Europeans asses, we get it

[@user-xt6mf1wk8w]

Albanians are a people enslaved by the Turks and brought from the Caucasus to the Balkans as a Turkish vassal... of course they rebelled at one point, for a short time...

[@Tunurhf]

he is lying

[@adlmnop1147]

Thank you, Like wise. Respect is mutual.

[@Thoradim]

He is almost a national hero in Hungary too, respect.

[@CitizenAgim]

@Saint Scanderbeg he already has, the title of champion of Christ comes with sainthood

[@LB-fz1if]

@L P your comments are hilarious. You are everywhere. Skanderbeg got married to a girl called Donika. She was the daughter of Gjergj Arianiti. She was ALBANIAN. And that "siptar" is one of the oldest languages of Europe, the language of the people you stole lands from. Be careful who your trying to offend.

[@claillyrian1554]

Thoradim Respect Hungary from Albania! 🇦🇱🇭🇺

[@luciusartoriuscastus3960]

@@Lost7one ohhhh he fucked you up

[@GimPukaleshi-Kurtishi]

L P Calling us Albanians the word “Siptar” is provocation with big hate of jealousy. Gjergj Kastrioti knew many language... boy...what else you got? Haha

[@gringo521]

How many victories do you want? Skanderbeg: Yes

[@nikostselempertzidis8943]

How many years should the albanians remain Slaves Of Turks Ottoman Turks: yes😍🇦🇱❤🇹🇷😘😂

[@gringo521]

@@nikostselempertzidis8943 lol greek talking.

[@nedstark3566]

@@gringo521 Greek with Albanian flag? What is wrong with this ppl?

[@gringo521]

@@nedstark3566 No clue mate maybe Albanian wannabe 😂

[@banivlore202]

@@nedstark3566 jane keta qe jane shkolluar "ne skola greku" Shqipet e pensjoneve edhe te xaxiqit

[@ragael1024]

wtf? never heard of this guy in my history books back in school. Skanderbeg deserved a whole book, not just a chapter. yet not even his name was mentioned. stupid school

[@lagjescuni5482]

Ragael... there are hundreds of books about him written by his contemporaries to this day...but yes it is true in European schools nothing is taught about big balls Gjerg kastrioti Scanderbeg

[@altin_3135]

Agree with you

[@Jurgen_Ibro]

Which country are you talking about?

[@arbensallaku]

Appart from German scholars Albanians did not get credit due to being sorrounded by the Greek and Serbian propaganda.

[@skenderbegshala3247]

@@arbensallaku and because albanians became muslim , that was unfavorable

[@bsmartr806]

How have I never heard of him before!?!? We praise "great" generals who always had numerical superiority and more advanced weapons but this man had neither AND STILL WON EVERY BATTLE!

[@ilirjantavmepatligjona8591]

Hes not the others

[@zeninimoni4205]

He is the ultimate master of Martial Arts , the embodiment of Sun Tzu's Art of War.....Alexander, Hannibal , Ceaser and Napoleon should bow in front of Skanderbeg---God of War....even Achilles and Hercules are envious at his achievements.....just saying

[@nickname8619]

@@zeninimoni4205 okay, Albanian, geez. He is an insanely good tactician but not a god.

[@andi07able]

Because whatever belongs to albania must be hiden from the world, history language and everything connected to the past because albania has the oldes language and the greatest history

[@erickbehari6740]

Ottomans called him Iskanderbey , Iskanderbey mean Lord Alexander

[@MuhammetAliOdabas]

After death of Skanderbeg, Mehmed II said "Europe lost it’s sword and shield."

[@MuhammetAliOdabas]

Also you should thanks man who poisoned Mehmed II. He was probably going to Rome with his 100 thousand man

[@g.h.3061]

Harry Paul no no no if Albanian reistance were not there in that time all Europe would be fallen on Ottomans hands. remember we Albanian didnt just not join tham but even fought tham ,if we would join the Ottomans for sure all europe would have been called Ottoman empire.

[@g.h.3061]

Harry Paul we have our history too if you think that we have been just som savage people you ARE SO WRONG. we have our history books that prove and explain everything even in istanbul archives we have our history books even in viena we have albanian history books even in venice and vatican archives we have albanioan history books. go and check it. Albanians have been always fighting with Turks for 500 houndred of years and with no real allies because Turks had allies like Egypt ,Syria , Iraq,Palestine ,Saudi Arabia etc. even Serbs hd been allies with Turks to many times against Albanians . i think that serbs are the problem of all the problems in europe . servbs even created world war one remember. after all europe was coward to support Albanians so stupid we needed help but whoo from whoo we resist so hard so hard.

[@g.h.3061]

Harry Paul then go check it out the truth go in viena we even have the true clothes of Skanderbeg . Then you can judge me or Albania history . Remember that the truth always comes. And yes you im being pissed from everyone who judge the Albanian history like we have been living like kings and Europeans were fighting for existence against the Ottomans.

[@skenderbegshala3247]

Harry Paul just use your logic mate , Skanderbeg died 1468 and after that Vinicians took over for Albania so for resistance over a decade so lets say around 1478 when albania has fallen totally under ottoman rule. So just count the amount of Man Power (that Skanderbeg alone + the decade with Vinicians after his death) took from the ottomans. Just use the Video to count them. And then think what would have happen to Vienna and Europe (200 years later) , if those Numbers of Ottoman Men back then were not decimated by Skanderbeg (of course not to forget the work that the other balkan people did, but Skanderbeg did clearly most) . They would have then much more Man Power because those thousands of thousands of men would have made many babies who then would later make more babies , plus Turks took Kids from other nations to raise them as Ottomans . They would have like more than double or trice of Manpower against Vienna as they had in reality . Vienna no chance Plus just think would would have happen if Skanderbeg would still fight for the Ottomans instead of going back to Albania against them . With his genius of warfare Ottomans would have been more successful

[@BranBran241]

From a Serb big respect to Skanderbeg! 3 decades repelling Ottoman expansion. Him and many other hero’s changed the fate of Europe!

[@sumax-nz1je]

Wow respect from a serb wow

[@joejabib8359]

Thank you. Too bad all of these great Christian people at the time couldn't get together to fight the Turk. It would have changed Balkan history for the better if they could have kept the Turk out.

[@albarmy1]

he would have expelled Ottomans totally if Serbs would have joined him and Hunyadi but you chose to stay loyal to the Sultan

[@santinorocco497]

@@tomgu2285you Serbs people are really something else I never seen such delusional people well mabey north Macedonia 😂😂😂😂. How the fuck is he Serb you got Turks, Venice, Vatican all stating he is Albanian. There are 100s of letters he was writing to Venice back and forth and Vatican with his seal he says himself is Albanian. The only thing Slavic about him could be his mother but still there isn’t evidence that she is part of the brankovic family as she isn’t mentioned in any of their history.

[@katerpese]

@@albarmy1 Why wouldn't they? The Serbian lord gave his sister to the Sultan to warm his harem. Serbs were tactical geniuses where they would hand their sisters and daughters to Turks right off the bat and that made the Turks weak on the knees. Thus they kept Serbs close to them for two centuries. The mofos even fought for the Turks in Anatolia. The level of commitment...

[@abc-yn4yl]

More than 21 000 comments about scanderbeg His life needs to be in Hollywood movie

[@dorart7255]

true

[@aydakutay3280]

Or GHAZi OSMAN NURİ PASHA 🇹🇷😉

[@Grudabased1911]

@@aydakutay3280 wtf,he wasn’t turskih he was Albanian Christian who saved Europe from Turkish occupation for 25 years...

[@MarkoMarkovic-wn2ww]

Movie about Yellow house in burelj is the next movie to be made.. or about depleted uranium that NATO/USA dropped (15 tons) on our sacred, currently occupied Kosovo and Metohija.. you are just talking nonsense- laughing stock glowing from depleted uranium...

[@Universal..]

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.

[@AKDanUb]

Fun fact : Arm wrestling in romanian means skandenberg :)) , Just that you can see how much respect we have for this man !!

[@AronBlox1]

Scanderbeg chose his best soldiers by arm wrestling thats why

[@AronBlox1]

@@albertsadiku2499 yes is a well known fact

[@AronBlox1]

@@albertsadiku2499 you have to study Marlin Barleti hi wrote about his life. And watch documentary about his life and you will find everything there. Have a nice life

[@kosovaisalbania3720]

Well done frate we love you

[@kosovaisalbania3720]

Alberto Carlo he was gladiator of course he fought the toughest. The history says so! Why you doubt it?!?!

[@lyonvensa]

This guy managed to survive an attack from Murad II, defeated or survived against more or less 10 Ottoman armies over the years that outnumbers him, and even hold back Mehmed II, the one that conquered Constantinople. He basically gave a lot of time to Europe to prepare against a very powerful empire. It's not an exaggeration that Mehmed II called him 'a shield of Europe'.

[@albanischernationalist4733]

Gazda the Tower where they are Burried is albanska pirga so no his mother was montenegrin but the rest of his family are Albanians

[@ronukaj8968]

@Gazda Those aren't Serb names, those are christian orthodox names, majority of the Balkans was orthodox because of influences from the Byzantine empire. Scanderbeg was born orthodox, became muslim when the Ottomans took him from his family in Albania, and died a catholic.

[@zeroabsolut3488]

@Gazda what to discuss you know hitler made some researches and for albaninas are pure race,,,we albanians are the missing piece that everyone says iliryan extinguish,,,,as for serbs the came from russia occupied balkan as the do with chechens,dagistan ect,,,as for greek(the troyan horse explain evrything)the lie lie lie lie(lied the europian parlament to enter in EU) and thats all,,,ancient greek were albaninas creta epiri athena sparta,,,,modern greeks are gypsies came from egyp the rest of them modern power its controlled by england (more land more money more power)to all who says we came from asia its a lie from serbs they have copied our tradition,our culture but past its exact no need for interpretation ,,,there will be no world history without albanians,,,those who are really interested to seek the truth how did the world civilisation evole should pass throught albanina history,,,the rest will says lies for more money land power as the human greedy its all about

[@zeroabsolut3488]

@Gazda kosovo free independent country dont behave bad serbs,,,,or the tax will go to 200%

[@zeninimoni4205]

@Gazda sultan Murad ll gave him the name Arnaut Iskender bey which in turkish language means Lord Alexander the ALBANIAN......l guess sultan Murad knew better then all of us who he really was....just saying

[@atanasiovinceformosa38]

Unë jam Arbëreshë. I am Arbëreshë. We are the Descents of Skanderbeg's Army living in Italy. Our major group of villages are in Calabria. My Town is Santa Sofia d'Epiro. 🇦🇱☦🇮🇹 We preserve a 600 year old Language, the customs, traditions, cuisine, clothing, and Above All, the Faith of Christ ☦ Mirumpfashim, Thanasi 🇦🇱☦🇮🇹

[@bld7549]

Qofshi jetegjate. Long live 🇦🇱🇽🇰🇮🇹

[@DF-oc1dl]

Ju dua arberesh ❤

[@imperatoralbanie7668]

We Malesor Albanians too are descent of Skanderbeg army that was led by Leke Dukagjini. Im from Shoshi of Dukagjini and one of my anchestor is somehow related to Leke Dukagjini

[@Eastern_Truck_Driver]

Respect but r not arbreshe catholic Respect ☦✝️☪️❤

[@wolpertinger7277]

This is so interesting

[@arche8229]

Without a doubt, Skanderbeg was a great warrior to not only Albanians, but to Europe itself. Even if his small Kingdom would fall, it sat together because of him. That is how powerful and great this man was to a degree.. Huge respect

[@sadalbo]

Yeah but Europe didn't give a damn about our people. Looks how it treated us and still is treating us. One of the oldest ethnicity in Europe and yet they despise us like we are some kind of dirt. Divided us, murdered us. Done us dirty many times and here we are. Still standing up and proud.

[@valley6824]

@@nezperce2767 Gjon Kastrioti (Father) Voisava Kastrioti (Mother)

[@valley6824]

@@nezperce2767 juat because she had a slavic name doesn’t mean she was a “Serb”. Why are you Serbs so slow to ubderstand this simple fact. Back then Albanians were all Christians and during baptism tgere were only two Kind of Churches. Those Byzantine-Greek Churches & Slavic (Bulgarian & Serbian) churches. So again tell me wtf were they suppossed to be named after baptism if they went to a slavic church. Princess Aurora?

[@valley6824]

@@nezperce2767 yes in his letter sent to Pope he called himself “George Kastrioti Albanese” “Gjergj Kastrioti the Albanian”. I don’t see where tf does the serb come in this topic though? Keep reading and ask yourself again wtf am I saying.

[@valley6824]

@@nezperce2767 he wrote it in Latin but you are too slow to comprehend a simple fact. You just gotta claim the entire world as Serbian when Serbians weren't even a thing before 7th century.

[@amirmili7407]

When Skanderbeg died Mehmed the 2 said "Europe lost their shield".

[@jurikurthambarskjelfir3533]

Still have Poland

[@scarfan35]

@@jurikurthambarskjelfir3533 1683

[@lemontree6686]

@@jurikurthambarskjelfir3533 thank God for Poland and Hungary, true patriots. I hope don't let go and fall into multiracial and diversity quotas Europe has been losing themselves to.

[@jurikurthambarskjelfir3533]

@@lemontree6686 It's a shame. But, we will win.

[@amirmili7407]

@Dr. Mr. Pr. po kari po

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

Skenderbeg needs a movie. Edit: How did I get this many likes?

[@aegis5536]

Fuck yes

[@moroccanalmoravid1510]

He was nicknamed "Iskander" which means Alexander in turkish.

[@Vitalis94]

There is one, made in 1953.

[@christermi]

No movie for you and your conquests , Napoleon Bonaparte ?

[@mevlanisufi2100]

Actually there is a russian-albanian movie about Skanderbeg. But it was made in 1953.

[@godivezer]

Long live our brothers. Support and love from Hungary! 🇭🇺❤️🇦🇱

[@godivezer]

@Bmf Bmf Viktor Orban, yeah yeah. He stole the idea from Mi Hazánk mozgalom . Long live Albania! Kosovo is Albania! 🇭🇺❤️🇦🇱

[@jemand7488]

🇦🇱 🇭🇺 ❤️

[@chrisalbania7419]

Long live the brotherhood of Albania 🇦🇱 and Hungary 🇭🇺

[@godivezer]

@enver pasha ?

[@godivezer]

@enver pasha why would I be ignorant?

[@TheAustrianAnimations87]

One of the greatest and most underrated European commanders in history. Respect Albania from Austria! 🇦🇱🇦🇹

[@avitiusrufinus6980]

Love you back 🇦🇱🇽🇰🇦🇹

[@caucasusalbania]

Aahahahahhahahaha

[@albaniansoldier8179]

@@caucasusalbania Cry jealous beach

[@popushimikhito8872]

He was serb

[@popushimikhito8872]

@@caucasusalbania nice name hahahah

[@Conosis]

In central London (Bayswater), Skanderbeg has a statue saying his full name and birth-death date along with this “invincible Albanian national hero, defender of western civilization.”

[@drlu3823]

There is almost a houndred statues of Skanderbe around the world

[@iamwhoyoucall2329]

@Sasuke Uchiha serbs used to sell their doughters to ottomans..... their history is just starting wars and pathetic in general

[@user-hurasaddeen]

He don't give a fuck about your western civilization 😂 He defend his own country and nation

[@mogabriel5238]

Fuck skanderberg

[@mogabriel5238]

@Saint Scanderbeg fuck ⛪

[@matthewboyle2641]

Note to self: never give a guy the nickname "lord Alexander" and expect to beat him in battle.

[@zeninimoni4205]

Ha ha ha truth be told....thats an epic statement......funny too, in a way......

[@landilapaj7398]

Such underrated comment.

[@finalfrontier001]

alexdra sucked at warfare and used nothin brute force.

[@arminddzemajli7845]

@@finalfrontier001 first of its alexander second about which one are you talking alexander the great or skanderbeg because alexander had way less units than the persian empire yet destroyed it as a young guy within 1 generation try that!

[@belgianfabian2216]

@@finalfrontier001 he won less than 30 battles the maximum was 46 by Napoleon

[@Sigismondus]

Respect for a great warrior. Greetings from Italy, albanian friends! 🇮🇹🇦🇱

[@ivanarandjelovic9979]

Dont lie you are siptar not italian

[@garrynewman6211]

⁠@@ivanarandjelovic9979Siptar? Shqiptar.

[@ivanarandjelovic9979]

Genauso, richtige italianer sagt nie so etwas.was für eine dumme bist du albanian frends 🤣

[@Sigismondus]

@@ivanarandjelovic9979 let me check ... No, I'm italian

[@geri3815]

in belgium in brussels more precisely schaerbeek, there is a statue of him in his honor mentioned his date of birth and his death, because this man was really a warrior and a strategist. respect to the strong and proud Albanian people

[@zottirgen]

Why would the Belgians have a statue of him

[@elisujka8694]

@@zottirgen becouse he stopped ottomans for 25 years

[@Albanian_History]

@@zottirgen cause all of Europe celebrates European heros

[@Anakin66x]

*doesn't take Kruje* Murad II:"Guess i'll die"

[@christermi]

PewDiePie reviewed it already

[@HomoChomsky]

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicolvocano- coniosis , classic meme don't die.

[@kubat552]

jovan cigan Don't forget winter. Same reasons why Suleiman the Magnificent retreat from Vienna. Not because of failed to take city but winter came.

[@kubat552]

DeSPoTNemanjaS Suleiman not retreated because of heavy losses or failed attacks. Chronicles clear. Suleiman and Ibrahim pasha agreed to retreat because of winter.

[@kubat552]

DeSPoTNemanjaS Dude u know what is fail ? Second siege of vienna was failure but first siege of vienna was not failure. Ottomans were able to take city it was withdrawn regularly because of winter. Not lost anything in this withdrawn. Also first aim of this siege was not take vienna but threaten germans.

[@klodiandodani2731]

Scanderbeg needs a Hollywood movie.. He's the parallel of William Wallace "Braveheart". What George Kastrioti did, is LEGENDARY.

[@klackon1]

Klodian Dodani. "Braveheart" was not a documentary: it was a Hollywood film and mostly fiction. As usual, Hollywood created it's own version of history. Skanderbeg appears to have been a real life hero and should not be compared to William Wallace.

[@klodiandodani2731]

@@klackon1 that's what would make it easier for Hollywood to make a movie out of my country's biggest real life hero. And yeah, he did all this for real.

[@CowVigilante]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYvVn52kjMaekLs fuck hollywood

[@klackon1]

Klodian Dodani. I would pay to watch it, provided Hollywood did not alter your history the way they always alter ours. Modern muslims always go on about the crusades into the Middle East by Christian armies, but never mention the Islamic incursions and invasions of Europe in the three centuries prior to the First Crusade; or those of the 14th century and later.

[@boob3370]

@@Miki85271 *SERBIAN WET DREAM MODE ACTIVATED*

[@denissaliaj9459]

Besa is the Albanian Code of Honour. Janos Hunyadi was a man of Besa to Skanderbeg 🇦🇱❤🇭🇺

[@kunta-kinte0904]

Here not trying be bad or anything but where is your courage in last 700years?? U didnt defend ur country and u ran to croatia to hide...u resistet to ottoman empire yet ur afraid of serbs.....i dont really belive in history..all this sounds nice but the man was only from that geographical location thats all...that wasnt albania back then....plus ur muslims same as them...dont be ego involved but do more research

[@denissaliaj9459]

@@kunta-kinte0904 ran to croatia? Afraid of serbs? Muslim as them? Wasnt albania? This is what they still teach you in ur cave?

[@imperatoralbanie7668]

@@kunta-kinte0904 we didn’t defend? Are you joking?My family always fought against Turks. Im from the Pepaj family. The great grandfather of my great grandfather Kol Marashi and his friend Deli Ndue killed Hasem Aga Pasha in the pazar of Shkoder. Then many Albanians escaped because they didn’t have choice. No one helped us, and we fought with what we had. Also Serbs supported a lot Ottomans against us. Before that Ali Pasha Tepeleni(1800) came to power Albania was always full of rebel attacks. Then when Ali Tepeleni rebelled rebellions restarted.

[@imperatoralbanie7668]

@enver pasha yeah sure meanwhile during Ottoman empire you conquered all of our zones but you controlled just 30% of it.

[@nenaddjuric5564]

@enver pasha just like serbia .....if noone jump in. Serbia will free kosovo and destroy albania in a week.

[@Kokinos45]

Skanderbeg is on of the greatest warriors, a hero, love to our brothers 🇦🇱🇬🇷

[@kozibau.2053]

Thanks my bro❤🇬🇷

[@mikeny5020]

respect 🇦🇱🇬🇷🇦🇲

[@popushimikhito8872]

He was serb

[@santinorocco497]

@@popushimikhito8872 his mother was Slavic but his father is Albanian 100% so he was half/half

[@nenaddjuric5564]

@@santinorocco497 Gjergj Kastriota, Scanderbeg was born on month day 1405, at birth place , to Jovan (Ivan, Gjon) Kastrioti and Vojislava Kastrioti (born Tribalda) . Jovan was born After 1350. Vojislava was born between 1369 and 1372. Gjergj had 8 siblings: Mara Marija Crnojević (born Kastrioti) , Staniša Kastrioti and 6 other siblings . Gjergj married Andronika Arianiti Kastriota, Scanderbeg (born Comnenos) on month day 1451, at age 45 at marriage place . They had 2 children: Jovan (Ivan) Kastrioti and one other child . Gjergj passed away of cause of death on month day 1468, at age 62 at death place .

[@federicofilpo1595]

As Italian of albanian origins I am content that You have dedicated an episode on hero of mine second nation.

[@illyriamacedonia6285]

yes

[@koqeluajtje7117]

what do you say about these comments that skanderbeg was serb and that arbresh people that went in italy speak serbian and not albanian?

[@qoqqoq124]

You are the true descend of skanderbeg

[@federicofilpo1595]

koqeluajtje : sorry I see this comments now . They are idiots. Skanderbeg was born in Albany, he has fight for Albany, the rest is chatter.

[@g.h.3061]

Federico Filpo im Albanian and muslim im from Kosovo we all are proud of our history of Skenderbg . My advice to you is learn Albanian because there are a lot Albanians living out side of Ilyria or Great Albania most of them speak Albanian so if you have your grandmother or grandfather Albanian you are Albanian and you should speak proud Albanian . Albania the first and after your living country.

[@HZTV1]

What a hero! Greetings from bulgaria🇧🇬🇧🇬

[@greywolf8921]

GAZİ OSMAN PAŞA 👑😂

[@HZTV1]

@@greywolf8921 ?

[@HZTV1]

@Kristian Pepaj Thank you🥰

[@HZTV1]

@Kristian Pepaj yup

[@user-hr9jy8ru1g]

@Kristian Pepaj Bolgars was Turkic tribe branch of Great Oguria

[@That1HotMF]

Skanderbeg is so underrated one of the most underrated general of all time he deserves a movie to be made for him. Even Mehmed the 2nd the ottoman sultan at the time when Skanderbeg died he said "Europe lost it's shield" and said that "i dont think another man like him will walk again on this earth"

[@albatrapstar9030]

He wasn’t wrong he slayed every army they sent a supreme general with minimum troops with insane strategy!

[@HotMan1]

Gjergj Kastrioti (skenderbeu) was a great warrior and motivator for the Albanian people. And as an Albanian I thank you for your video about it. I hope some director like Oliver Stone or Ridley Scott can make a film about the history of Skënderbeu because it would be a great story to tell.

[@imthatOlivia]

Armwrestling in Hungary is called Skander. It showes how much he was respected.

[@jahoshkoza9523]

Is it so?

[@aveliiu]

well Skanderbeg choose his best soldiers by arm wrestling

[@jahoshkoza9523]

@@aveliiu E di, por nuk e dija qe edhe ne Hungary e Rumani kjo quhet Skander.

[@aminasherazee749]

AH YEAH A COMMENT ABOVE SAID SO

[@Mark-uh3un]

This is the ultimate example of quality over quantity

[@Fidellio369]

Supreme commander

[@tonib9328]

Bcs he was a supreme commander plus he didnt have slaves he treated his troops well he respected their religion and thats what made him great

[@ChildrenOfTheEagle]

For those who wonder about the badass Goat Helmet that Skenderbeg wore.. It was a tribute to Alexander the Great and Pirro of Epirus, who also wore similar pagan symbolism, wich stems from the goat god Pan.

[@sociolog1000]

"It wasn't me that brought you the liberty. The liberty, I found it here, among you" Scanderbeg's great speech to albanian warriors at Kruja Castle!

[@jiiiigsaw]

Who ever made Gladiator should make Skenderbeg!!

[@zeninimoni4205]

Skanderbeg needs a series of 25 sequals....one movie can not tell the truth

[@ardionduckollari5575]

@Kidsaw scanderbeg needs a serial in netflix like the spartacus serial

[@klajvertgjoka5346]

Ridley scot with rosell crowe😂😂

[@fluz2222]

@@klajvertgjoka5346 he's a grandpa now! That wouldn't work lol

[@ymbyoun6646]

They can’t make a movie for real stuff unlike mythology history is hard to be portrayed in a movie exactly how it happened + many countries would he upset of it

[@EndOfSmallSanctuary97]

You know you're a legend when not even 100,000 troops can defeat you when you have barely a quarter of that. Skanderbeg was a great man, one of the greatest resistance fighters in history. Every Christian and European should pay their respect to him.

[@drlu3823]

Don't put religion on this , Skenderbe only made himself Christian to have a religion that Ottomans did not like not because we liked it anyway he or any Albanians out there never cared about their Religion

[@georgekastrioti1405]

👏👏👏

[@themfavocadogod6389]

Andy This seems a little racist.

[@madaranotsoanonymousnowuch1539]

john smith respect to you sir for trying to reason with the brain dead, but I have come to learn that it’s a fruitless job......

[@jeffdid9117]

@@drlu3823 he lunched a fucking crusade, that's the most Christian thing ever

[@indyri2928]

The Albanian prince that got kidnapped by the strongest empire of the time, became a hero to all western civilization, not only an Albanian hero!!! LAVDI MBRETIT!!! 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱

[@geoousp]

George kastriotis sounds "albanian" to u??

[@biornihy8187]

@@geoousp this is how he said it but the real name was Gjergj Kastrioti

[@geoousp]

@@biornihy8187 Yes but he's english speaker. Kastriotis himself in his letters would sign as Georgius Castriotus or Castrioto. As far as i know -otis isn't an "albanian" surname ending and his name is obviously christian. Most "albanians" were cooperators of the Ottomans and had accepted Islam. That's why it is weird for Albanians of today to talk abt resistance to the Ottomans by the majority of arvanites of the time.

[@indyri2928]

@@geoousp a lot!!!! And it's Kastrioti!!! Kastriotis sounds gay!!!

[@geoousp]

@@indyri2928 -is is a male name/surname ending and -i is female in Greek. U r probably confusing with the female ending -is as in Bronchitis. What makes sth sound gay is the way someone pronounces and not the orthography.

[@martinl2756]

Thank you for this video. A great figure in Europes history but not very well known apart from Albanians and scholars. The fact that armwrestling in Hungary and Romania literally is his name shows a lot. When the Pope declared his crusade chose Scanderbeg as the Commander of the Holy Army of Christ, forged his helmet in Milan with the inscription INPERATORE, ultimate commander', and the initials refering to * IN * PE * RA * TO * RE * BT *: Jhezus Nazarenus * Principi Emathie * Regi Albaniae * Terrori Osmanorum * Regi Epirotarum * Benedictat Te ( Jezus of Nazareth blesses the Prince of Emathie, King of Albanians, Terror of the Ottomans, King of Epirus ). If he was from a larger country, his figure would be glorified so much more.

[@theunknownfragment5473]

Principe Emathie you know based on Albanian legends carried on for Generations Alexander the great was in fact born on Emathie city modern Mati region ...

[@filanfistiku7419]

You're spot on

[@miliiboy]

Skanderbeg did so much for Europe Something that Europe failed to do for Skanderbeg and Albanians.

[@ertijakupi6759]

yes thats right

[@arawn1061]

Arent Albanians muslims?

[@saltysalad7782]

@@arawn1061 Albania has Muslims, Christian's, orthodox, Jewish, and more And we live in peace ;) In Albania we say nobody cares what religion you belong to we Albanians

[@pizzo6367]

@@arawn1061 No We were mostly Catholic but when turkey fucked us over we got blended and so we are now a Muslim country with more than 60% being Muslim (idk the exact number) but we are mixed we have Muslims, Catholics, Jewish, evangelists etc.!

[@alberthayman1770]

But the US did ! They saved Albanians twice and we are forever grateful.

[@robolinoschmidt8676]

When skanderbeg visits your house... you're the guest

[@valbonapasho]

😂😂😂

[@robolinoschmidt8676]

@DiscordChaos skanderbeg can Draw two parallel lines that cross each other

[@07blerim07]

Haha 🤣🤣😋

[@robolinoschmidt8676]

@DiscordChaos skanderbeg once did Push ups...all of them

[@robolinoschmidt8676]

@DiscordChaos skanderbeg counted till Infinity...twice

[@michaeldiebold8847]

I never heard of this bad ass before. I like him

[@michaeldiebold8847]

@Zenel Gjoleka I am ashamed to say I was ignorant of his contributions to western society. I am enjoying learning about him

[@lazarduke6596]

@@michaeldiebold8847 Sqippy do not pretend:):):)

[@michaeldiebold8847]

@@lazarduke6596 I pretend not

[@lazarduke6596]

@@michaeldiebold8847 Right:):):)

[@michaeldiebold8847]

@@lazarduke6596 yup

[@norcofreerider604]

Could you imagine what a man like Skanderbeg could have done with Venitian and Neapolitan support? Imagine if he had 50,000 troops and financial backing, he could have brought the Ottomans to their knees and halted their European expansion for half a century.

[@MartinQ-bl6co]

Skenderbeg with that support could have probably reached the walls of Constantinople easily thus changing the entire Balkan history and Balkan as we know it today.

[@hotjani809]

True he could con the world 🌎

[@ahmetturkmen0011]

Skanderbeg avoided open battles. He was limited to defending the Albanian highlands. It would be impossible for him to make it through Thrace, let alone Istanbul and Anatolia.

[@madflaka4087]

@@ahmetturkmen0011 Because we were outnumbered 1:8, equal numbers and proper equipment would’ve been a slaughterhouse.

[@Optimusturk]

@@madflaka4087 Not really the Ottomans were superior in plain fields battles and would have stopped Skan's advance, do not forget that Mehmet II was the sultan as well

[@illezt]

my father that is a history professor in lund university (Sweden)he liked this video, and said that he will use this video in school.

[@petrophillyboy70]

This is true raw history. The Western tried to bend Balkan history but the truth always reveals itself. God bless.

[@ifrazali3052]

LUND UNIVERSITY!!! HAHAHHA Lund in Indian languages mean Penis

[@nasimulhaque726]

Wait! What university?

[@ifrazali3052]

@@nasimulhaque726 I study in Choot university

[@Jamalball36]

Illezt säg till din pappa att allting är sant Jag är alban , min pappa har studerat och varit history professor i hela sitt liv Skanderbeg var en riktig bad ass

[@n.b.zh.52]

a statue of scanderbeg exists in switzerland in geneva and one in england. The Helmet and sword are in Austria.

[@avitiusrufinus6980]

I'm from Kosovo and I love Austria and Hungary and Germany you are the true Europeans that I can call brothers and be proud to be European. France russia and UK are such a pity.

[@avitiusrufinus6980]

@arapYalamasi osmanli ataturk was Albanian his name in Albanian means At te turk (Father of the turks). And I know that turkish word for father is baba, but in Albanian it is At= Father.

[@user-rw8vz7qe9c]

@@avitiusrufinus6980 Lol yeah everyone was Albanian sure

[@avitiusrufinus6980]

@@user-rw8vz7qe9c what ataturk is Albanian you can't handle the truth then bye

[@milandjordjevic2336]

@@avitiusrufinus6980 Skenderberg is half Serb half Albanian. He is not only Albanian

[@hulguiniiiadolfo]

The national hero of Albania Skanderbeg ......

[@blockie9706]

The best Albanian hero that greeks couldn't steal...

[@rayu5603]

@@blockie9706 hahahahahahahah true

[@Universal..]

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 . (Pope Pius II , Commentarii) The same prince Giovanni Antonio described Skanderbeg as "Georgio Albano".

[@Universal..]

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"... ( Himelstir. p. 45 )

[@Universal..]

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.

[@droiddrei]

Romania sends it's respects

[@droiddrei]

@Zenel Gjoleka you're welcome, God bless

[@thegjok3268]

Romananians also have my respect for Vlad the Impaler / Dracula. 🇦🇱🇷🇴💪

[@Universal..]

The original name of the family of Kastrioti (Castriota) was Merzeku. Kastriot, Kastrat in Has (🇦🇱), Kastrat in Dibra (🇦🇱) or the microtoponym "Kostur" near the village of Mazrek in the Has region. Source :Bela 2019, p. 229. In connection to the Kastrioti family name, it is very likely that the name of one the different Kastriot or Kastrat which were fortified settlements as their etymology shows (castrum = Latin) was as their family name. The Kastrioti may have originated from this village (🇦🇱) or probably had acquired it as pronoia. Source : Omari 2014, p. 44 Angelo used the cognomen Meserechus in reference to Skanderbeg and this link to the same name is produced in other sources and reproduced in later ones like Du Cange's Historia Byzantina (1680). Source : Malaj 2013, p. 43 These links highlight that the Kastrioti used Mazreku as a name that highlighted their tribal affiliation (farefisni). Source : Malaj 2013, p. 44 The name Mazrek(u), which means horse breeder in Albanian, is found throughout ALL Albanian regions 🇦🇱. Source : Malaj 2013, p. 45. The Kastrioti themselves where organised in a tribal structure and formed a fis or clan/tribe. Source : Gall, Timothy L.; Hobby, Janeen (2009). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life: Europe. p. 27.

[@Universal..]

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 )

[@Universal..]

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.

[@edg5468]

Hollywood should make a movie about Skanderbeg

[@amz8966]

Edward G Yeah but he wasnt a french or german / english man thats why they dont make a movie about him 😢

[@mikeoxsmal8022]

@Anton Babani they don't make movies about paedophiles and how does being a homosexual disqualify someone from being a good man

[@mikeoxsmal8022]

@Anton Babani nö ich glaube nicht

[@brhm4468]

There are many better than him

[@a.o155]

Brhm tell me a leader who won a battle with 5% odds on his side

[@roniverjoni1072]

“Keni harru kush jemi kon na ?! Jemi kon ata qe i kena shptu kta”

[@xhimbelushi3365]

Ashtu eshte, i mbushen breket kur i pane turqit perball Otrantos.

[@richardroberts5552]

Unikkatili duhet tja mesoj ktyre historin😂🤣

[@roniverjoni1072]

Unikkatili njish 😂😂😂

[@universalpage9591]

Mos mirenjohesit Skenderbeu i shpetoi nga Turqia ndersa neve na ndane ne 100 pjese kur na paten ne duar sikur ti kishte lene Skenderbeu te va qishin ropt europjanve karit.

[@rose-go3yd]

po turku ju bani mysliman 😂 apo jo?

[@xhoshi509]

I’ve heard that Joe Dioguardi might do a movie about Skanderbeg with Russell Crowe but I’m not too sure tho.

[@based.skupian]

🇦🇱 wee need a new movie about our national hero 🙏🙏

[@artenisdhjaku8171]

Russell Crowe is a grandpa now my dear friend. 😂 But lets hope a new movie will be filmed for our great hero. The world should know his name.

[@fluz2222]

@@artenisdhjaku8171 I'd love Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth or Henry Cavil to play the lead role.

[@artenisdhjaku8171]

@@fluz2222 Every one of them would be perfect for the role.

[@jemand7488]

@@fluz2222 gerard Butler would be perfect

[@avitiusrufinus6980]

A movie about Gjergj Kastrioti and a series about illyrians would be fire🔥🌠

[@illyrianal6681]

in Albanian passport is Scanderbeg and everytime when i show passport to in Hungarian border they always welcome me and have big respect , respect to Hungarian brothers 🇦🇱🇭🇺

[@PSGSQUAD]

U bete vllezer me hungarezet or race e flliqt nennen et enver hoxha jau qift

[@obitouchiha5365]

@@PSGSQUAD me mir me hungarezet se sa turqin e karit

[@mariobross8399]

@Dinaroid * most stupid comment

[@speeddemon8977]

@@PSGSQUAD shko mer pall kari

[@sroldlsbey3239]

🤮🖕🖕

[@FubbleSmurf]

How is this dude not as famous as Vlad the Impaler or any other general who opposed the Ottomans? He achieved much more, with less resources, against greater odds at the height of Ottoman's strenght while they were being led by some of the greatest leaders that any Islamic nation has ever had. Dude should be canonized as a saint, "defender of christianity" or something.

[@avitiusrufinus6980]

He is sainted ""protector of christ". I can answer your question, the reason why he is not famous as other generals is because Albanian history is being hidden. You would be surprised if you knew that Illyria is older and greater then Roman empire or ancient greece. And so is Albanian illyrian language

[@FubbleSmurf]

@@avitiusrufinus6980 Just read up a bit more about your country, and I think that the exploits of this man are largely forgotten because your country has a muslim majority. And muslims do not tend to celebrate the exploits of people who are famous for downright humiliating celebrated muslim leaders. A shame that the exploits of this man have been forgotten by the people he so ferosciously defended, a real shame.

[@leonardmana241]

He is far more famous the fact that you don’t know doesn’t mean that he was not !!! Hundreds of books have been written about him in all languages of Europe!

[@javigabis5367]

He is, we've heard of him. Look i'm here as a Romanian. He is in the history of balkans and he did good job in his era. Any christian leader who fought against the ottomans is well known in this parts. Vlad and Stefan fought against the ottomans, but Vlad is well known by that book writed by a irish guy.

[@leonardmana241]

javi gabis none of the other leaders have been compared to Gjergj kastrioti (skenderbeg) and I am not the one who says that but Historians, he resisted forever, others were killed by the Ottomans and they did not win the battle while SKENDERBEG he won every single battle and died proud and old man in his royal chair, not like some others whom they head been cut off in the battle lol!

[@santiagom3616]

Great video as always! It's amazing the massive quantity of soldiers and armies that the Ottomans used in continuity during centuries.

[@imreungor7232]

Skanderbeg was a true hero. Brave, honest. He is also a hero for Hungary.

[@Universal..]

The original name of the family of Kastrioti (Castriota) was Merzeku. Kastriot, Kastrat in Has (🇦🇱), Kastrat in Dibra (🇦🇱) or the microtoponym "Kostur" near the village of Mazrek in the Has region. Source :Bela 2019, p. 229. In connection to the Kastrioti family name, it is very likely that the name of one the different Kastriot or Kastrat which were fortified settlements as their etymology shows (castrum = Latin) was as their family name. The Kastrioti may have originated from this village (🇦🇱) or probably had acquired it as pronoia. Source : Omari 2014, p. 44 Angelo used the cognomen Meserechus in reference to Skanderbeg and this link to the same name is produced in other sources and reproduced in later ones like Du Cange's Historia Byzantina (1680). Source : Malaj 2013, p. 43 These links highlight that the Kastrioti used Mazreku as a name that highlighted their tribal affiliation (farefisni). Source : Malaj 2013, p. 44 The name Mazrek(u), which means horse breeder in Albanian, is found throughout ALL Albanian regions 🇦🇱. Source : Malaj 2013, p. 45. The Kastrioti themselves where organised in a tribal structure and formed a fis or clan/tribe. Source : Gall, Timothy L.; Hobby, Janeen (2009). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life: Europe. p. 27.

[@Universal..]

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 )

[@Universal..]

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.

[@Universal..]

Moreover, even the descendants of Skanderbeg from the Arbëresh community qualify as Albanians. Example : Shopie Castriota, loris Castriota etc ...

[@Universal..]

Gjergj Kastriot Scanderbeg ( 31, October, 1460 ) : Moreover, you scorn our people, claiming the Albanians 🇦🇱 as nothing more than sheep, and according to your customs think of us with only insults. It would seem you know nothing of the origins of our race. Our elders were the Epirotes from whence Pyrrhus himself came forth, the might of whom the Romans could barely withstand. Those very Epirotes whom with their weapons set forth and conquered Taranto and much of Italy. There exists no challenge to their might from the likes of the Tarentines, a species of wet men born only to catch fish. And since you proclaim Albania 🇦🇱 a part of Macedonia, you grant also then, our elders as nobles who went as far as India under Alexander the Great, defeating all the peoples that came before them with great ease. From those men descend these who you call sheep. But the nature of things is not changed. Why do your men run away in the faces of sheep?" Source : Book VI or Pope Pius the II's Comentaries.

[@Codiggity369]

What a badass! Brilliant commander. I visited Tirana and I love his statue in Skanderbeg Square--it's so cool. I really enjoyed Tirana and the Albanian people. They were very friendly and appreciative of visitors. I highly recommend a visit. I will be back one day! Beautiful women too ;)

[@jg-xi9rz]

Corrance Richard Thanks friend, you are welcome back to Albania anytime.

[@alboking6314]

Be carefuk with women because you get killed and times are changing in Albania we do not like foreigners anymore like we used to

[@Codiggity369]

fuck off dork@@alboking6314

[@Lonystal]

@@Codiggity369 don't mind him, he's probably like 12

[@enthusiham]

@@alboking6314 yo what killed bro take it easy. And wwhatt ???? We love foreigners. It's in our tradition to welcome foreigners. U must be from some village where u get all ur education from the imam(hoxha). 😂

[@gyzlug]

Had heard of Skanderberg before, but hadn't known about him in this much detail. Great general and great warrior, respect where it's due, greetings from Turkey.

[@shoibakhtar1911]

@@gametestinglab8861 common man Christianity and Islam will always be fighting with each other but humanity also exist dear

[@gametestinglab8861]

Ramazan C They don’t asked to. What ottomans wanted in albanian land? They didn’t came with olive branch in hand but with sword and fire. So should we tell about ottomans hallall for slaughtering and killing us? Every enemy is not venerated but opposed with any manner. The most efficient one I’m asking to my albanian brothers is to renounce from oppressor religion. Islam. Coming back to religion of our forefathers and tradition that we kept for 2000 years. Christianity. They were forcefully integrated to Ottoman Empire. Ottoman Empire used elites of occupied countries for it’s own interest. Given that they were coming from Asian steppes and they were merely nomadic savages. Coming to a region with consolidated elites and over 2000 years of state tradition they will absorb that elite and culture for their own gains. Don’t tell me that Islam don’t promote discrimination of non Muslims. Being an albanian I know history of ny country better than you. So don’t try to deceive me and the others. Reading Koran it’s written on it this bias toward non Muslims. If you want the citations let me know I’ll provide to you by chapter and verse. Till then look this video about “religion of peace” or better religion of hate. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYjKh5Rpi7d5mJY. Jesus is the only savior and the only hope. Repent and you’ll be saved.

[@SCARFACE07OWNER]

Grigor Kosta HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH bro most ottoman empire’s elite was consisting of albanians greeks bulgarians serbs hungarians know why? Because there was no such thing as nationalism or discrimination idiot. Only discrimination was that other religions than islam had to accept islam’s superiority just like rome did because ottomans continued their traditions. Now go sleep

[@shitpostbelike7375]

@Cor Kalom Hmmm, I dont know either 🤔

[@gjergjikastrioti00]

Grigor Kosta may jesus bless you 🙏🏻 you are stating true facts.such a shame that nobody in our ignorant country wants tp hear the truth

[@theinternationalmedia]

For those who don't know, Vivaldi composed an opera named "Scanderbeg"

[@darwinism14]

And for those who don't know Scanderbeg has another opera entitled to his name by Francois Francouer.

[@spartan2186]

As an Hellene, I support that Skanderberg was Albanian because historical evidence proves it. Respect to Albania🦾🦾

[@spartan2186]

@Edi Ahm and what we are? You think we dont have relation with Ancient Greeks?

[@spartan2186]

@Juventus FAN Greeks actually never claimed it as their hero because he was just Orthodox. Yes Serbians did but Greeks never

[@leo2277]

@@spartan2186 yes they unfortunately did buddy, there are many Greeks who claim Skenderbeu as a Greek, which is just sad.

[@user-zv6ce1ss2j]

Yeah from mother which is proved being Serb(daughter of Triballian noblemen (only Serbs were refers as Triballian by Greek and Latin historians in that period and nobody else)), all his family members having Serbian names except Constantine, himself using Serbian language in letters, buried in Serbian monastery. Everything historical says he was an Albanian, definitely.

[@leo2277]

@@user-zv6ce1ss2j DUDE its not proven Voisava was a serb, stop it.

[@BADBOY-rq8py]

Mehmed the second himself said for scanderbeg “There won’t be another Lion like him in this earth”

[@BADBOY-rq8py]

@PEPAJ yes But he said also that After scanderbeg defeated him in the siege of kruje

[@KJ-is5ug]

Spanish: blocked ottomans vessels from entering the alboran straits to Asia for trades British: blocked ottomans from entering Suez Canal to Asia for trade

[@KJ-is5ug]

Ottomans: *OoF*

[@BADBOY-rq8py]

@theGreek deal albania is not muslim or christian It’s albanian Yes it is true that scanderbeg fought ottomans but we wasn’t anti islam Many muslim albanians were in the albanian army fought against the ottomans scanderbeg cared more about albania than who was muslim or christian That’s why we don’t have a cross or a moon and star in our flag Because it’s albania and not an islamic or christian state

[@Ziggyziggy1]

Put this way, Religion is pretty much irrelevant in the context of a nation's history, What matters more is Your national identity, Religion can easily change if a country is part of an empire for a certain nr of decades or centuries... Does that make sense to you!

[@ardaaslan1923]

As a Turkish citizen and a history lover, I can say that Skanderbeg or İskender Bey(The lord Alexander) is one of the very few non-Turkic figures that our high school history books mention with respect. As far as I remember from those books, he was taken as a devshirme and trained hard that he quickly ranked up and became high rank commander. Later he decides to turn against Ottomans and he was never defeated. He was really good at commanding his local armies against outnumbered Ottoman forces. As he knew the tactics of Ottoman army, he sometimes openly fought and sometimes he was using guerrilla tactics by retreating to hills surrounded with the forests. He used all the advantage of the area. Even Mehmet II said the old wolf was unbeatable that they were going to wait for him to die and then take the lands under their control again. After he died, rumour has it that Mehmed II said "Europe lots their shield". I hope anytime soon I can visit Kruja. PS: I want to clarify sth since I've seen a lot of awkward nationalist comments. Guys, Ottoman history is Albanian history since Albanians are known to be the real Ottomans. Don't get it wrong but it is similar with Bosnians in the Balkans. They were both the majority in the army as infantry units, Janissaries, and military administrators as Pashas. Later, local notables at the end of the 18th century were again mostly Albanians and Bosnians in the Balkans. Commander of Castle of Vidin, Pazvantoğlu Osman Pasha for example was arguably Albanian origin. He was frequently taking arms against the central state in order to strengthen his position in the region. He was giving aid to local gangs to plunder region from Moldavia and Wallachia to Belgrad. State was unable to end his actions since they had no power at all. He involved on the side of rebellious Janissaries during the conflict between Serbian notables and Belgrade janissaries. Later with the help of other local notables including Ali Pasha of Ioannina, Alemdar Mustafa Pasha state formed an army of 100k and sieged Vidin in 1798. There is an epic written on it as Pazvand managed to defend for 3 month with 15k. Later siege was lifted as Napoleon conquered Egypt and Pazvand was given Vizeer title before army went there. As you can see state was even unable to defeat a local notable and protect its citizens. Later, Pazvandoglu Osman Pasha continued what he was doing. Pazvantoglu acted as an autonomous political actor between 1792 and 1804, not only in the course of the Ottoman regional politics but also in the course of the international politics. It was recorded that France and Russia, who had certain ambitions of Ottoman territories, in some point, directly made a contact with Pazvantoglu via sending an envoy discussing his activities in the region This is why for those who don't know Sultan gave permission to the elites of Serbia and the region to take arms against the rebellious Janissaries and gangs. Later, armamant in the region was going to pave the way for independence movement. Yet, we need to remember that Miloš Obrenović who later managed to get an autonomy was actually loyal to the Sultan(it was political indeed but you can see the Sultan Mahmud IIs medallion on his chest if you search his photo on google. I need to inform you that not eveybody was given it. It was very special symbol.). He fought against Black Yorgi when he first revolted against the Sultan. Thus, history is neither Black nor White. Let's get back to my point, Albanians were definetely the most influential group together with Bosnians. The "barbarian steppe people" has nothing to do with Ottomans starting from 15th century. While many Turkic tribes including my ancestors were still living nomadic life and shepherding in central Anatolia, others were living in borderlands, mainly Akıncı units made of Tatars and other Turkic groups raiding non-conquered lands. State was trying to sedentarize nomadic people. Everybody should understand that Ottomans were an empire and it's army and administration was made of non-Turks (beginning from Mehmet ll) in order to strengthen the power and the legitimacy of Ottoman family. That's is why DON'T write silly nationalist comments under this mention! Religious hate in 21st century is just so stupid. You better question your existence in this world and think what you can contribute to the humanity instead of being obsessed with the past. Cheers!

[@arminddzemajli7845]

respect well in the end they fell he could at least thought the younger noble people his commanding skills which he learnt but they were probably incapable and Ottoman empire was one of the greate empires with good morals i mean they had so few civil crises in the empire that it just shows me that the system worked pretty well

[@ardaaslan1923]

@@arminddzemajli7845 I believe he tried to train soldiers. After all, without any help from others and loyal supporters, he couldn't have managed to organize these groups. Balkans were stable (until 19th century nationalism) but Anatolia was in a turmoil. Celali rebellion continued for many decades. People lost their place and fled from Anatolia in 17th century. Ottomans later had to change their land system.

[@metehan8551]

as one of the thousands of grandchildren of Mehmet the 2nd. I also respect Iskender Bey (Lord Alexander) it just triggers me when people start talking more racist than if they are explaining true history just to get to the nerves of the people that come from the family of the men that fought in the war. Love to Albania and respect to the Lord Alexander

[@rotnem0017]

Arda Aslan hey, thanks!

[@ibrahimselishta8546]

Arda whitch thay are the other 5 people whitch you learn at your books vith other origin from otoman nation,probably i think the most of them are albenian, like Hajredin Barbarosa konkueror of mediteran sea,Kyprili family,Mehmet ali pasha kavalla founder of modern egypt, and Gjergj Kastrioti-Scanderbeg.

[@albertoalbee]

George Kastriot was the horror of the Ottomans he defeated them in every battle, I am proud to be Albanian I am proud to have Kastriot blood ❤️🙏🏻💪🇦🇱✝️

[@mirjetalb8349]

✝️🇦🇱❤🇦🇱✝️

[@podzemo]

he is a serb :)

[@albertoalbee]

@@podzemo he is albanian ❤️, Fkkk serb

[@albertoalbee]

@@podzemo and your mother

[@Universal..]

@@podzemo The House of Kastrioti (Albanian: Dera e Kastriotëve) was an Albanian noble family, active in the 14th and 15th centuries as the rulers of the Principality of Kastrioti. At the beginning of the 15th century, the family controlled a territory in the Mat and Dibra regions. Exemple : Great grandfather = Kostandin Kastrioti Mazreku (died ca. 1390) was an Albanian 🇦🇱 regional ruler in parts of the wider Mat and Dibër areas. Grandfather = Pal Kastrioti was an Albanian 🇦🇱 medieval ruler in the latter part of the 14th century in northern Albania. Source : Genealogy of the Kastrioti family, Du Cange (1680), Historia Byzantina duplici commentario Ethnicity = Skanderbeg himself defined himself as Albanian ( Ethnicity ) (handwritten letter). Ex : " Ioannes Antonius princeps Taranti Georgio Albano salutem " = Georgio the Albanian 🇦🇱 salutes the prince Giovanni of Taranto . Source : (Pope Pius II , Commentarii) The same prince Giovanni Antonio described Skanderbeg as "Georgio Albano".. Geography = Skanderbeg always signed himself as "Dominus Albaniae" (Albanian: Zot i Arbërisë, English: Lord of Albania🇦🇱) Source : Frazee, Charles A. (22 June 2006). Catholics and Sultans: The Church and the Ottoman Empire 1453-1923. Cambridge University Press. p. 33. Even the Serbs of the time considered Skanderbeg as Albanian, his father (Gjon) was buried in an Orthodox monastery, the Serbs named the tower where he is buried "Albanian tower🇦🇱"... source : ( Himelstir. p. 45 )

[@emilyb7867]

I was so happy when a video about Gjergj Kastriot Skënderbeu was recommended to my feed! Thanks for this as an albanian😍

[@Sim4oo]

That 5/5/5 general is op asf ( eu4 players will get it )

[@efe_c.99]

Army tradition: -infinite-

[@MachinimaGothic]

Using him to restore Byzantium was a good trick

[@Nomad.552]

And most ironic thing he used classic Turkic war tactics for his success against Ottomans that learned from them

[@MachinimaGothic]

Same like Vlad Palovnik he know to much about Turkic tactic and use this knowledge against them

[@georgewu4051]

hes a 656 ruler, but a 555 general, best deal in eu4 tbh

[@geniusmaker6438]

I'm an Italo-Albanian,better known as Arbëreshe people,and I can confirm that Skanderbeg is like a God to us.Greetings to the people of Albania and Kosova 🇦🇱🇽🇰🇮🇹

[@geniusmaker6438]

theGreek deal Lol,you have no idea who we - the Arbereshe people - are,huh?

[@geniusmaker6438]

theGreek deal - You called me a muslim,even though you seem to know who the Arbereshi are,which is sad... -The modern albanians seem to be associated with islam,even though some 20% are Christians,some 5% are also irreligious.Kosovo Albanians are pretty secular,while Muslims in Albania(some 55%) in general do not practise Islam.I visit Albania almost every year(during the summer) and I realized that most people there don't give 2 fucks about religion at all.

[@geniusmaker6438]

theGreek deal Why would they give a fuck? Religion will sooner or later just become a part of tradition of a group of people, and then in no-time will be a thing of past. Albanians are culturally pretty close to other Europeans(particularly Greeks,Slavs and Italians),since only during the 18th century Albanians started massively converting to Islam.Even during this time,religion didn't shape an Albanians life.It's during the rise of the nationalism in the Balkans that Albanians needed to embelish a religion that was different to the religion of their enemies(Greeks and Slavs that were Orthodox). To fight the turks(that were of the same religion),they highlighted unity:"An Albanians religion is Albanianism".

[@fredilenie]

GRAZIE GENIUS, VOI SIETE SEMPRE NEL NOSTRO CUORE. ABIAMO LA STESA SANGUE. SIAMO UNO. TANTI SALUTI A TUTI GLI ARBERESH.

[@hdb4highdefinition949]

@@geniusmaker6438 Rrligion is politic It was in the time of Alxander to Scanderbeg now amd always Feja e shiptarit esht Shqiptaria Greetings from Kosova

[@agonlata4748]

Why call this a rebellion?? They were protecting their land.

[@DaviRenania]

Read Ismaël Kadaré's The Siege, it's fucking awesome. Skanderbeg never shows up in the book, but his shadow hovers all over it.

[@lordvoldemort8904]

During the dark sieges of Kruje, when morale was at its lowest, it was Skanderbeg’s speeches that empowered the soldiers and uplifted their spirits. He became a grand symbol of Albanian national unity, freedom, faith, solidarity and identity.

[@thevaultdwellerf6691]

Skanderbeg is the symbol of all Albanians

[@StelaPunk1]

Funny since he was Serb named Djuradj

[@StelaPunk1]

@@Universal.. Dobrica Cosic a father of Serbian nation? 😂😂😂 find another fool, surely you have some among yourselves that would say such things about Turks. Also you base your whole view and the truth on historically absolutely not important person. That guy was a communist lol he would of sell his own mother

[@StelaPunk1]

@@Universal.. lol and what time exactly did he gain some brain activity?

[@shqipemalesore2620]

@@StelaPunk1 😂😂😂😂

[@mentorpozhegu]

Skanderbeg the protector of Europe the King of Kings respect to Albanians from the Netherlands

[@mentorpozhegu]

Serbs think that even the Sun is from Serbia

[@idosula1848]

Dank u het klopt wat u zegt

[@zeninimoni4205]

@@maskart9272 Skanderbeg was an Albanian prince born of orthodox albanian noble Kastrioti family....his religion was changed to islam when he was taken as hostage by ottomans in Adrianople and than he swiched to roman catholicism after he reneged against the Ottoman Empire and retook his fathers land which was his by inherentence....he switched religions but always remained true to his albanian roots and blood .....its so simple.....let the truth be known.....

[@marioadriatiku326]

@@maskart9272 ti shkerdhefsha ropt e gjall e te vdekur o serbythqir

[@Eagle_data]

respect!

[@avitiusrufinus6980]

Gjergj Kastrioti may his glory always be remembered 😍🇦🇱📍

[@sikismeker]

Yes it will be. Thank you.

[@CrocUser]

@@sikismeker Sorry to break it to you but he was albanian

[@sikismeker]

@@CrocUser Maybe in movies.

[@acrobatstar]

@@sikismeker cry serb

[@sikismeker]

@@acrobatstar i wil cry, in movies. Lol

[@monthycristo]

When I first watched this video I didn't know who Skanderbeg was, now I never forgot it.

[@noire3599]

Imagine how beautiful a new 2020 SKANDERBEG Movie would be.

[@LECityLECLEC]

TBH gotta be delivered by a real artist of a director, otherwise it'll be a special effects nightmare cut and paste hack and slash job that doesn't do him justice.

[@cornelishenk4569]

Hollywood would butcher it with lot of black woman knights in it 😅

[@blerimkuqo3321]

Hollywood is actually working on one!

[@blerimkuqo3321]

@@cornelishenk4569 ikr

[@blerimkuqo3321]

@Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg trueee

[@MayonezKetcap06]

Respect to Skanderbeg. He was amazing general and soldier.

[@boob3370]

@Brotha Box dreaming is nice, isn't it?

[@boob3370]

@Brotha Box yeah, you're definately dreaming. Wake up

[@albinh.3149]

@Brotha Box poor russian

[@albinh.3149]

@Brotha Box I am a Albanian. Successor of the Illyrians. And u are a serb. A russian immigrant. A slave. Knowing nothing just slavic propaganda. Have a good one

[@zeninimoni4205]

@Brotha Box he is a Serb slayer

[@gwuenner]

absolutely amazing!!! we need a movie here!!

[@nikollaijevic364]

Skanderbeg always signed himself in Latin: Dominus Albaniae ("Lord of Albania"), and claimed no other titles but that in surviving documents. You can find this sentence in almost every document for Scanderbag. What do serbs have to say about this

[@southwillriseagain9606]

What does that prove? He control Albania but he was not Albanian orgin. We discuss about ethnicity. Is that so hard to understand? Germans ruled Bulgaria for example like Battenberg, Hungarians celebrate Jovan Damjanić and call him his national hero but they admit he was Serbian orgin, why is that hard for you to admit Skanderbeg was Serbian orgin? I know because you hate Serbs. Whatever you say you can't hide the fact he was Serb, whole family Serbian, all Serbian names and his father and brother buried in Serbian monastery, end of story.

[@greekmacedonia7168]

Iam Greek i know we dont have too good relationship but Skanderberg was Great Leader Respect

[@samhamza4691]

Give up serbs and Russian and return your thoughts to your real ancestors if you are a real Greek but not only in theory but in blood line too! You know Slavic nations have destroyed us more than what Turks did

[@dritong9727]

You are a human being, it doesn't make you less of a human to me just because you were born on a location you recognize as Greece. I am a human being that happens to be born further north on what you might recognize as Kosova. So just because we are told that I am an albanian and you're greek does not mean we should have bad relations. Its just that nationalism is poison, not just because it is absurd to take pride in what someone did centuries ago, but its because such label is an abstract concept invented in XVIII century, an identity that seperates us from the rest of humanity, merely a delusion. All the troubles are about power and capital, all war is based on deception, we have the technology to evolve in harmony as an enlightend humanity for world peace, if only we would all just reject nationalism and authoritarianism and understand we are all equal and earth does not belong to us but we belong to Earth.

[@fuckoff53]

Driton G Best words ever

[@memories6615]

eisai malakas hahahah, malon kai xrisavgitis, amiale. hahahahhhaha, se lipame, @Nikolaos Patras

[@gjergjkastrioti8159]

Respect neighbor. And thank you.

[@alberthayman1770]

Skanderbeg is so underrated. He was the Thunder of Europe and a fine leader of a proud nation.

[@scrow5114]

Şükrü Çiriş traitor? He isnt turkish, you idiot. He is albanian fought for albania. Whats your problem ?

[@ExecutiveMansionFilm]

George Kastriotis, GREEK hahahaha. Also, the Albanian flag was inspired by the BYZANTINE eras two headed eagle which is designed to face the two ORTHODOX churches. (Vatican and Constantinople). So a MUSLIM nations national flag is a CHRISTIAN symbol designed by a GREEK bahahahahhahhahaha. Too good. ZiTO H ELLADA!!!

[@figliodellestelle22]

@@ExecutiveMansionFilm There is no single evidence by any schoolar or study that makes Gjergj Kastrioti* greek. His ancestors had heritated him their lands in North Albania. He spoke albanian and so on. Our flag derives from antiquity, Illyria to be precise and not Byzantum time. It has pagan symbols, so it has nothing to do with christianity.

[@cheesegamingalbania5333]

Şükrü Çiriş Traitor?!? He was albanian and proud one not turkish

[@ExecutiveMansionFilm]

@@figliodellestelle22 and one final thing for you to think of.... GIORGOS KASTRIOTIS (just like this video calls him) had two brothers named KOSTADINOS and ALEXANDER which are Greek/Roman names. Kosta is named after the Roman Christian emperor and Alexander is a Greek name which means "Defender of man". Tell me, what the fuck does Albanian have to do with Greek names? The Turks FORCED you guys to be Muslim and KASTRIOTIS "Scanderber" fought against the Turks, meaning he was Christian just like his grandfather during BYZANTINE times. That is why Scanderber (KASTRIOTIS) raised the teo headed eagle to reclaim the Christian identity. But you guys stayed Muslim anyway. Because the Ottomans Turks ended up fucking you again. As you see, your history is thanks to a Greek.

[@abhishekmukherjee1010]

I've been following your channel for more than a year now. I loved the Mongol and the Ottoman series. As an avid viewer, I would like to request a dedicated video about Vlad the Impaler and his connection to Sultan Mehmet. Love from India 🇮🇳❤️

[@gigasigma8373]

His title "Skanderbeg" which means Lord Alexander was given to him not due to his posessions, but because the Ottomans compared Gjergj Kastrioti to the military genius of Alexander the Great, which is why later on during his resistance Skanderbeg with a letter sent to the prince of Taranto wrote that his people marched as far as india and are the descendants of Pyrrhus

[@mustafam3285]

Half Turk here, Skanderbeg was a fantastic general. I hadn't heard of him, but now I'll never forget him. Be proud Albanians, this guy is legendary.

[@user-wk4iw8gt8r]

He was a Serb

[@jurialboz6692]

24 he wasn’t i didnt hear anything in the video that it says he’s serb

[@Lonystal]

@@user-wk4iw8gt8r Serbian Propaganda. He was never a Serb. He Was Albanian, the son of Gjon Kastrot

[@georgekastrioti1405]

@Stealthy Bleach and aliens are serbians 😂😂😂

[@georgekastrioti1405]

@@user-wk4iw8gt8r and marsians are serbians

[@lukasj1980]

Drink game: 1 shot for every time Skanderbeg destroys an ottoman army

[@Jurgen_Ibro]

Only Russians can play that game, most people would quit at the 6th army

[@estradasot3612]

@@Jurgen_Ibro hahahhahahaha

[@oklater2056]

You're drunk

[@cyberNinja69477]

let's be honest if you do this you'll die of alcohol poisoning

[@Universal..]

Skanderbeg himself defined himself as Albanian (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".

[@recessionto5537]

As a Turk myself 🇹🇷 i do respect what he achieved not all Turks wants to admit it i know that amk so i’ll just say it for them. Skanderbeg Gjergj Kastrioti was a great warrior 👍🏻

[@ledionxhani3229]

Bruh we are talking about ottomans a group of people turks mongols and others but they take It for turkey in general bc mostly they were turks 2021 turks are good people with a big Heart

[@durim_gashi]

Respects man 🇦🇱🇹🇷

[@durim_gashi]

@Ελληνας Γραικος yeah he would they had fought for 25 years

[@madflaka4087]

@@durim_gashi no screw the second flag

[@Universal..]

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

[@arielbemeliahu8619]

Great video as always, this is the third skanderbeg video ive watched from any youtube channel and is the only one which explains how he beat the turks

[@bvthebalkananarchistmapper5642]

Ah, if it isn't our favourite guy on EU4, and the Albanian that non-Albanians love the most! I was hyped when I saw the thumbnail.

[@KingsandGenerals]

I feel that this thread will be very popular. :-)

[@ridaelmoutaoukki2047]

Probably 90% of eu4 players watch this channel, its like recreating every single move in an ottoman campaign lol i love it

[@EJProject]

@@KingsandGenerals you should close the comments though. They're going to be nasty

[@cikaiva3]

Even Serbs respect him

[@Lord_Lambert]

Reda Moutaoukki I just shared this video on the EU4 facebook group of over 16,000 members, it's pretty much a given that they've all already seen it ;)

[@OYUNAGACIumutburak]

I am a Turk but i have a deep respect for skanderbeg He was proud of Albanians Even Turkish Sultan Mehmed 2 had a deep respect for him too Greetings to Albanians Nice people of the balkans

[@bamorder6008]

Respect From Albania , Turkey And Albania Are Brothers. 🇦🇱❤️🇹🇷

[@avitiusrufinus6980]

The barbarossa brothers, ataturk and many (if not all)ottoman main people were Albanian. So basically Albanians fought against each other

[@OYUNAGACIumutburak]

@@avitiusrufinus6980 barbarossa was barbary i mean he was moorish he came from algiers but Pargali Ibrahim Pasha s great ottoman grand vizier was from albania

[@avitiusrufinus6980]

@@OYUNAGACIumutburak every source shows barbarossa brothers origin as Albanian. Skenderbeg is absolutely great, but there are thousands of other great Albanian generals that are underrated. Barbarosa being one of them

[@gigilo5820]

@@avitiusrufinus6980 no Barbarossa wasnt get your facts right

[@meri74612]

🇦🇱 The greatest warrior of Arbëria (Albania).

[@kosovoisdoingthebestmusici5414]

Today is birthday of Gjergj Kastrioti an albanian hero 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅... For that albanians fight everyone in sport, because in our blod we have his genes..... 💪❤️❤️❤️

[@sveneriksson496]

Albanian warrior!! My father who is a proffessor in history really liked this presentation! Good job keep it coming.

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thank you! Please, send my respects to your father!

[@rinorkryeziu7230]

Historian i qkafit? I shkolles fillore me libra te Frasher Demajt aka Prralla per femije a?

[@sveneriksson496]

@@rinorkryeziu7230 Historis. Ndoshta me kan qen nxens i tina edhe ti nuk e kishe msu historin e shqiptarve neper xhamija:)

[@rinorkryeziu7230]

Ti se din ku e kom msu historine une! Ama t'pakten nuk e kom msu prej prrallave qe ja u kallxojn gllupat femive neper shkolla ;)

[@sveneriksson496]

@@rinorkryeziu7230 Nuk paske mesu sen se me qen ti Shqiptar nuk perdor fjalor serbo sllave.

[@itsKiraki]

İskender beğ (skanderbeg) is also teached here in Turkish schools and we respect that general a lot. What a badass

[@mbreteriadardane8455]

Carnivorus : they teach that Albanian people the land come first then relgion. They teach that alot of Albanian people buld Tyrkia. They teach that serbian king gave HIS dughter to the sultan to Get some land in Balkan.

[@agongjonshpata4013]

@@enisingaprizreni u tqifsha ropt nrro at emer ropt ti qifsha

[@enisingaprizreni]

karrin ngoje, kejt familjen ti qisha

[@agongjonshpata4013]

@@enisingaprizreni o turk nrro at emer qysh ki ftyr me sha skenderbeun o ropt ti qifsha

[@enisingaprizreni]

motren goje tpshursha o katoliki mut

[@DuaLipaLover3.0]

Thanks for this video💗 and that's why i'm very proud to be albanian💗🇦🇱 Greetings from Italy 🇮🇹

[@AscensionOfTheEagle]

The story of the Albanian People is the story from which all humanity can learn from. It is the story of how total resistance can be maintained if spiritually you believe in FREEDOM and you never surrender her. Skanderbeg was the son of Albania, because he embodied the spirit of the nation, when EVERYONE said it was impossible to beat the Ottomans, he taught the Albanians to believe in themselves and to trust in their spirit of resistance, which is as ancient as the land itself. By psychologically believing in themselves they were able to achieve stunning victories, unmatched in history. And even after the death of Skanderbeg, the Albanians never gave up. Even after the fall of Kruja in 1478 and later of Shkoder, under extreme losses by the Ottoman side, both the North and south of Albania continued to resist for 400 years, untill final independence. How is this possible? Because of Skanderbeg. He had taught us that you should NEVER give up your freedom. You should NEVER compromise your spirit. As long as you FIGHT for your ideals and you believe in yourself TOTALY, you will never be defeated, no matter how INCREDIBLE your enemy is. The myth of Skanderbeg will never die because he is the myth of the spirit of freedom in all humans. It does not matter where you are from. Today both Albanians and Turks are both friends with each other, and no one respects Skanderbeg more then the Turks themselves. Because Skanderbeg is the spirit of freedom in all humans.

[@erikandrea9674]

Every time the Sultan's army outnumbered Skanderberg's army by 5 to 1, Skanderberg would leave half of his army back home to make things more fair!

[@zeninimoni4205]

Ha ha ha.....that's an epic statement !!!! And so frieking funny🍻🍻🍻🍻

[@Universal..]

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.

[@Universal..]

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"... ( Himelstir. p. 45 )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"... ( Himelstir. p. 45 )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"... ( Himelstir. p. 45 )

[@Universal..]

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.

[@Universal..]

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

[@Robert-jh7ss]

He will always be a hero for our country 🇦🇱👑

[@carpediem5281]

@Jutjubas Tjubic hahahhaha in your dream kid

[@dardaniaboiwma6262]

Shut upp dont be jealous

[@leonipasuli4012]

@@dardaniaboiwma6262 huh?

[@Albanian_History]

@@carpediem5281 are you mentally ok?

[@MasterAssassin914]

@@carpediem5281 what the fuck bro can’t even speak skenderbeg is the king! Dumb ass

[@etninalba797]

Now this is an Albanian legend respect Albania

[@FWhite-xo7st]

I LOVE YOUR VIDEO. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TELLING THE HISTORY OF MY PEOPLE. I WAS BORN IN NYC, AND NOBODY HAS EVER HEARD OF GJORGJ KASTRIOTI.

[@MrCushcam]

Respect to Skanderbeg from England

[@giovannicastriotascanderbe1116]

thanks friend

[@Eagle_data]

respect

[@MrCushcam]

@@MrCemsipahi looks as though you got fucked up by the winged Hussars boiii. Off you pop back to Asia, Turks have no place in Europe and never will

[@LasVegas1700]

​@@MrCushcamYea, you prefer arabs? you got them and you get the fuck you deserv.

[@MrCushcam]

@@LasVegas1700 What are you talking about? Got Arabs?

[@dariosanto3467]

Respect from Croatia

[@juresibenik5281]

@@mentor288 Croats and Albanians are not same origin people. Croats are 1.85cm tall im average in Dalmatia and Hercegovina. And Albanians are 1.75cm tall in average. We dont even have same face features. So in the end of the story Croats are part Illirians and Albanians are some asian tribe.

[@juresibenik5281]

@@mentor288 dude you are stupid. Croatians and Bosnians muslims who are also croatians have 60% of I2a haplogroup and 25% R1a. Albanians have 0% of both of this haplogroups. Albanians are closer to serbs by blood than to Croatians

[@juresibenik5281]

@Dražen Mišetić Croatians and Albanians have 0% of same haplogroup.

[@di1832]

Dario Santo why are albos and croats like bro‘s ?! 🧐

[@dariosanto3467]

@@di1832 becuse we have lots people from kosovo who fought for croatian inderpance war and they are good and honest people not backstabbers like serbs and they have very beautifull women they are alweys welcomend in croatia

[@Halgarita]

We have a old community of albanian in sicily probably descendants of the soldiers who fight with skanderbeg.....bravi picciotti 😎

[@GabrielV65]

Skanderbeg's army fled to Italy after the ottomans took over

[@alb-333]

@@GabrielV65 high-ranking soldiers flee to italy, a large number found shelter on border with greece it was their descendants "suliotes" who gave independence to Greece before the Balkan wars ... Albanians were betrayed by everyone, they were left alone, especially by the Vatican. Serbs today are considered "devout Christians" but when the Albanians fought the Serbian king gave the girl to the sultan as a bride.

[@darwinism14]

5:45 - 6:20 Something needed to added up here - While fighting the war against Sultan Murad II, Scanderbeg ALSO fought against the Venetians for a short period of time and defeated them TOO, gaining a yearly tribute from the Dodge after quick negotiations.

[@chriss1519]

Thank you! My family is Albanian. I never knew the details of his victories.

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thanks for watching!

[@shkelqimgjecaj7376]

Christopher Milo you need to visit Albania do not forget your roots

[@robolinoschmidt8676]

Then you Are albanian too...#shqipe

[@chriss1519]

I did visit Albania in 1994: Tirane, Elbasan, Korce and Hociste (small villiage near Greek border.)

[@fittorekut4784]

Christofer Milo, Albania has change a lot since 1994. You should visit again.

[@albanianhistory9417]

The Albanian-Venetian War of 1447-48 was waged between Venetian and Ottoman forces against the Albanians under George Kastrioti Skanderbeg. The Venetian Republic a sent a local force to relieve the the Dukagjini fortress of Dagnum which they claimed was their property, and urged the Ottoman Empire to send an expeditionary force into Albania. They also sent resources like food to the Ottomans... At that time the Ottomans were already besieging the fortress of Svetigrad, stretching Skanderbeg's efforts thin. However, the League of Lezhë defeated both the Venetian forces and the Ottoman expedition. The League won over the Venetian forces on 23 July 1448 at the gates of Scutari, and over the Ottomans three weeks later, on 14 August 1448, at the Battle of Oronichea.

[@albanianhistory9417]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian%E2%80%93Venetian_War

[@albanianhistory9417]

I agree. There are a couple other moments like these which, if avoided, would have changed the history of Europe entirely :(

[@ramo7481]

At least this shows that the Albanians became Muslim by will and not by force because they pretty much crushed all the Ottoman forces that were send to defeat them.

[@albanianhistory9417]

@Ram O How does it show that?? After Skanderbeg died, there wasn't just another military genius of his caliber waiting to take his place. Albania was conquered not long after his death. And the Ottomans did have a spirit of revenge against the Albanians for their "disobedience". For example, did you know that the Albanian language specifically was banned after they conquered it? The Greek or Serbian languages were not banned. It was banned for 400 years and its a miracle of might that it survived. In the four Albanian provinces (vilayets) of Shkodër, Kosovë, Manastir, and Janinë, where Albanians demographically comprised a continuous and compact majority there were 1,187 Turkish language Muslim schools (1125 elementary, 57 middle, 5 high schools), over 1000 Greek language Orthodox schools , and over 300 (Serbian language Orthodox + Bulgarian language Orthodox + Romanian Language Orthodox) schools, as also that many Catholic schools in Italian language which were managed by Austria-Hungary and Italy due to their diplomatic relations with Turkey. In Albania the only language not allowed to be taught was Albanian. Probably if Japan would make a move at the time, we would also have Japanese schools… The ban on Albanian imposed since the beginning of the occupation in the 1480s was lifted de jure in 1887.

[@ramo7481]

To be honest, the only reason why i made that comment was to provoke such a response because i was curious what happened after all of this confrontations and i was too lazy to research for myself xD

[@onurkalkan201]

His tactics will be still teached in the military schools of turkey