League of Lezhë
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The League of Lezhë, also commonly referred to as the Albanian League, was a military and diplomatic alliance of the Albanian aristocracy, created in the city of Lezhë on 2 March 1444. The League of Lezhë is considered the first unified independent Albanian country in the Medieval age, with Skanderbeg as leader of the regional Albanian chieftains and nobles united against the Ottoman Empire. Skanderbeg was proclaimed "Chief of the League of the Albanian People," while Skanderbeg always signed himself as "Dominus Albaniae".
Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg, the ruler of Albania at the time.
League of Lezhë painting in the Skanderbeg Museum in Krujë.
Albanian assault on an Ottoman encampment in the Battle of Albulena
Veronese's Siege of Shkodër in 1478
Lezhë
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Lezhë is a city in the Republic of Albania and seat of Lezhë County and Lezhë Municipality. It is one of Albania's continuously inhabited cities, with roughly 2,400 years of recorded history.
Image: Lezhë, Albania – Skanderbeg Memorial 2016 02
Image: Biblioteka Lezhë Bibliotekat Publike panoramio
The Iron Age fortification was built on the Mal i Shëlbuemit (413 m high, right), called later Acrolissus; the proper city of Lissus was built on an adjacent hill (172 m high, left).
Lezhë Castle on the 172 m hill.