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Scanderbeg

American  
[skan-der-beg] / ˈskæn dərˌbɛg /

noun

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


Scanderbeg British  
/ ˈskændəˌbɛɡ /

noun

  1. 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 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 Hobbes, Thomas

The French monarchy was to him what the Roman republic was to Hannibal, what the Ottoman power was to Scanderbeg, what the southern domination was to Wallace.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Historie of George Castriot, alias Scanderbeg, King of Albanie: Containing his famous actes, &c.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund

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