Scanderbeg

American

[skan-der-beg] / ˈskæn dərˌbɛg /

noun

George Castriota, 1403?–68, Albanian chief and revolutionary leader.

Scanderbeg British

/ ˈskændəˌbɛɡ /

noun

original name George Castriota; Turkish name Iskender Bey. ?1403–68, Albanian patriot. He was an army commander for the sultan of Turkey until 1443, when he changed sides and drove the Turks from Albania

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His army was utterly dispersed, and this disaster, aided by the heroic resistance of Scanderbeg in Albania, arrested the Turkish invasion and gave Europe a breathing-spell.

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A Tale of the Times of Scanderbeg and the Fall of Constantinople. 16mo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1 50; Paper, 50 cents.

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A Tale of the Times of Scanderbeg and the Fall of Constantinople.

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Among others was one assumed to be the sword of Scanderbeg: strange if the sword, once so fatal to the Turks in political rebellion, should be pursuing its work no less truculently now in religious strife!

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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.

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