Scanderbeg
Americannoun
noun
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His paternal progenitors, with their clanging names, were great men in Trieste; one of them, Moissi Golemi, was a general under the Albanian national hero Scanderbeg.
From Time Magazine Archive
His passion for mansions still unappeased, King Zog planned still a sixth palace in the ancient town of Kruga, home of Albania's 15th Century hero king, Scanderbeg the Great.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1443, Scanderbeg, king of Albania, made himself master of a considerable part of Epirus; but on his death it fell into the power of the Venetians.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
A Tale of the Times of Scanderbeg and the Fall of Constantinople. 16mo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1 50; Paper, 50 cents.
From Horace Chase by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
They rival those of the renowned Scanderbeg, or our own Kentucky hero, Colonel Boone.
From History of the Conquest of Peru; with a preliminary view of the civilization of the Incas by Prescott, William Hickling
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