Arbëreshë people
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The Arbëreshë, also known as Albanians of Italy or Italo-Albanians, are an Albanian ethnolinguistic group minority historically settled in Southern and Insular Italy.
Villa Badessa (Badhesa) in Abruzzo
Barile (Barilli) in Basilicata
Civita (Çifti) in Calabria
Greci (Katundi) in Campania
Skanderbeg
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Gjergj Kastrioti was an Albanian nobleman and military leader who led the League of Lezhë in the Ottoman-Albanian Wars until his death. Skanderbeg is considered to be a major figure of medieval Albani
Arbëreshë people
…Epirus, and later some from the numerous Albanian communities of Attica and Morea, between the 14th and the 18th centuries following the death of Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg and the gradual conquest of the Balkans by the Ottoman Turks. Their culture is determined by the main features that are found in language, religious…
Skanderbeg and other students receiving military education in the Enderun School
Skanderbeg dueling a Tatar at the Ottoman court, some time before 1439
Skanderbeg's return to Krujë, 1444 (woodcut by Jost Amman)
A woodcut of the battle of Varna in 1444