Scanderbeg
Americannoun
noun
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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
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
The History Of Livy, denotes the Writer; but the History Of Scanderbeg, is denominated from the subject.
From Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
Thus Whincop, to whose tragedy called "Scanderbeg," published in 1747, added "a List of all the Dramatic Authors, with some Account of their Lives," &c., describes a curious occurrence at the Theatre Royal in 1693.
From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Dutton Cook
These non-Italian villages date from the centuries that followed the death of Scanderbeg, when the Grand Signior consolidated his power.
From Old Calabria by Norman Douglas
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