Added: Sep 18, 2008

From: kosovoseals

Duration: 2:43

George Kastrioti Skenderbeu known as Skanderbeg (1405 -- 1468), is one of the most prominent historical figures in the history of Albania and of the Albanian people. Skanderbeg successfully ousted the Ottoman Turks from his native land for over two decades, halting Turkey's efforts to spread Islam through a predominately Roman Catholic western Europe. Albanians fought one of the bloodiest wars in the Balkans to repulse the invasion of their ancient Illyrian homeland by the Ottoman Turks. The saga of Albanian resistance to the Ottoman Turks was written with the blood of many Albanian Kings and to their people. For a quarter of a century Skanderbeg and Albanian people prevented Turks from invading Western Europe. Thus stopping a Ottoman Islamic Europe which could have changed the history of the world.

Channel: Education

Tags: albania  albanians  catholic  church  george  islam  israel  jtf  kastrioti  kosovo  mother  prishtina  skenderbeg  teresa  usa 

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