The Greatest General You've Never Heard of: The Life of Skanderbeg | Animated Albanian History
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Skanderbeg was probably one of the greatest commanders of the late medieval era, and yet I (a history nerd) only heard about him like 6 months ago. Either I'm an idiot, or this Albanian dude is seriously underrated.
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Footnotes
1:21 Skanderbeg is technically the Albanian version of Iskanderbey, but there are enough linguistic oddities in the translation that some misinterpretation seemed to have occurred.
3:48 To add some context to the whole killing Muslims thing, it’s important to note that this was probably politically, rather than religiously motivated. Many Albanians had converted to Islam in order to gain political positions under the Ottomans, so by refusing to convert back to Christianity, you were essentially declaring your support for the old regime.
6:26 I should mention that when I say numbers like 100,000, I’m just referring to the numbers my sources say. I’m personally skeptical of such big figures. Medieval chroniclers would see like 5 dudes on horses and write some bs like “the enemy was as numerous as the stars.” So, yeah. The Ottoman army was big, but was it 100,000 men big? EhHhhHhhhHHH….
8:52 Hamsa did get his head cut off, but not by Skanderbeg. Skanderbeg actually forgave Hamsa and sent him back to Constantinople as a spy, but then Mehmed II was like “Hey, I know that guy!” and he got executed.
Sources:
Brackob, A. K. Scanderbeg: a History of George Castriota and the Albanian Resistance to Islamic Expansion in Fifteenth Century Europe. Histria Books, 2018.
Fine, John V. A. The Late Medieval Balkans: a Critical Survey From the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest. E-book, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994
"Gjergj Kastrioti-Skanderbeg." Encyclopedia of World Biography Online, vol. 23, Gale, 2003. Gale In Context: World History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/K16310.... Accessed 1 Dec. 2020.
Christmas Past, The Ghost of. Came to me in a dream and told me to finally make this video. Dumb Jokes Publishing, 2020.
Murdarasi, Karen. “Skanderbeg: A Man for Our Times? Albania’s Greatest Military Hero Dedicated His Life to Fighting for His Beleaguered Homeland.” History Today, vol. 68, no. 5, May 2018, pp. 8-11.
"Skanderbeg." Britannica Academic, Encyclopædia Britannica, 26 Feb. 2009. academic-eb-com.grinnell.idm.oclc.org/levels/collegiate/article/Skanderbeg/68069. Accessed 2 Dec. 2020.
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Skanderburg? Looks interesting
Glad to hear your still here Connor! Awesome as always
Like the Spider Man CROSSOVER lol
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I had heard of skanderbeg.
Great guy. Arguably equal to or better than chaps like vlad the impaler.
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Eu4 players: You underestimate my knowledge.
Conquering the world as ryuku
Glory to the Ulmpire.
Ottomans when skandeburg dies is not cozy
All hail the god general!
we all know an alliance with Skanderbeg as the Byzantines is as must to crush the Ottomans
Ottomans: Gives a portion of his land.
Skenderbeg: Say sike right now.
Haha! That’s pretty good!
@@HistoryHouseProductions please do one of the sikh empire and the camel tanks deployed
@@ajithsidhu7183 camel tank as a phrase makes me very happy. Reality I'm certain is much less "Loony Tunes" than my drug addled brain is envisioning I'm sure but my head canon will reign supreme.
@@skizzik121 but i am serious to invade Afghanistan the sikh tie cannons on camels to act as tanks , would be awesome of there did that to elephants
@@ajithsidhu7183 that is called Zamburak and yes Tipu did that with elephants. He made his war elephants kinda like rocket launcher.
Any person that had to play as Albania or Byzantium on EU4 knows what a Gigachad Skanderbeg is.
The dude makes his ancient namesake proud.
Cheers to any albanians reading this! 🇦🇱
Greetings Brother
Cheers ☦️🇦🇱
Cheers from Albania
He was Greek. Look it up.
@@geosar5470 ??? You ok there
Fun fact: In the Battle of Albulena we were outnumbered 8 to 1. We won lol.
And look who decide to show up. The star of the show 😂
His name was Georgios Kastriotis and he was a Greek-Serbian, not Albanian.
@@aokiaoki4238 Lol why did he fight for Albania? And where was Greece then? Greeks disappeared a long time ago, modern Greece is a creation of the Philhellenism of the 17th century Europe and has nothing to do with ancient Greece except the national narrative.
@@admypz DONT WASTE time to that dude hahaha they are so jelous
@@aokiaoki4238 hmmm he cannot be greek cause he was not GAY
As an Albanian yes, Skanderbeg is very underrated in the world because people only know about generals that conquered massive amounts of territories but Skanderbeg was just incredible and everyone in the Balkans knows about him and is very respected in europe with alot of statues. He also fought wars in Italy and never lost once, in any battle he joined he was always the victor even though he had 0 help from anyone.
He did receive some help by the venetians but in true medieval fashion he fought against them too. His titles were pretty badass though:Jesus Nazarene Blesses Thee [Skanderbeg], Prince of Emathia, King of Albania, Terror of the Ottomans, King of Epirus.
@@baril3d being a fanboy about the greatest middle age general of all time aint something bad, its something you should be proud of.
@@Someone-jz5pl exactly they also burned costantinopole
In Italy Skanderberg is really well known and i live nearby a square called Albania Square, and there is a big statue of him in the middle
@@someguysomeone3543 Bruh you name is Cucumber
Everybody gangsta till the mountains speak Albanian
Ottoman Horse Archers: *Nani!*
His name was Georgios Kastriotis, not Skanderbeg and he was a Greek-Serbian, not Albanian.
He wasn't Albanian ;)
@@aokiaoki4238 ahahahaaha grrek serbian wtf is that
@@aokiaoki4238 his name was Gjergj Kastrioti, Skanderbeg is the surname he was given in Turkey which means Lord Alexander... So when you call Gjergj Kastrioti as Skanderbeg you are calling him as Lord Alexander.
My mans skanderbeg had plot armour until the writers realized the unstoppable beast they made would ruin the Ottoman arc
They had to kill him off for the second season
They only replaced him with Vlad Tepes
@@sebastianpijov8708 vlad is a rat compared to Skanderbeg
@@onuraslanfb07 Considering that Vlad used disease to damage the Ottoman army, you are right.
@@sebastianpijov8708 considering the Ottomans put Vlad in charge of Wallachia, you are right.
considering he killed his own brother, his own people, you are right.
Vlad Tepes wasn't a good leader, nor was he very succesful.
Romanians only have him as someone who in known in the world, so they idolize him.
People who know who Skanderbeg is and what he did and all his achivements: "Oh I see."
Can’t win ‘em all
@@HistoryHouseProductions you got a pretty good ratio though. I appreciate your coverage of less "mainstream" historical badassery
In hungarian arm wrestling is called szkander (pronounced skander) in honour of him so he is better known here.
Ist That right? I read here that also in Romania arm Wrestling ist called Skanderbeg...I‘m very Proud of him
I am told in Romania the do the same to his honour. Love it
🇦🇱 ♥️🇭🇺
Respect
@@EltonTheFirst why tho, did he help romania at some point?
In Romania we call arm wrestling Skanderbeg and nobody knows that it's named after this guy
That’s cool!
Probaly because once he asked the Albanian nobels who would be a prince or smth like that and he challenged everyone in arm wrestling and beat everyone until he called a herder and he actually was beaten by the hearder which showed to everyone that the nobility weren't as strong as the common folk or the poor as the thought.
@@someguysomeone3543 I didn't know that, on wiki it just says that it's because he was called 'iron arm', which is not such a satisfactory explanation.
@Ersi Leka Yea, I guess he'd be
Your name is really cool. It is a link to the Balsa family in the Balkans.
Skanderbeg had gained the nickname "Iron arm" due to his achievements, and was known throughout the balkans. His deeds were so well known that Romanians (who were also under Ottoman rule more or less) idolized him. To the extent that the word for "arm wrestling" in Romanian is actually "Skanderbeg" or "Skandenberg", and is used even today, though very few Romanians actually know the etymology and fewer question the obviously not-Romanian-sounding word.
Same with hungarian, an entirely different language.
He was also Athleta Christi(the pope called him like that) and shield of europe(mehmet fatih)
wow, that's kind of interesting story. As an Albanian/Kosovan we have sympathies for Romania and Hungary, especially for Hungarian brave comander Ianosh Hunyadi . About him, we learnt a lot in primary school here. Regards
His name was Georgios Kastriotis, not Skanderbeg and he was a Greek-Serbian, not Albanian.
@@aokiaoki4238 If you are Greek, this is first time that I’m completely disagree with one Greek person. Believe me, because as an Kosovar/Albanian, I love Greece, and as a child when I was in Athens with my parents vising this beautiful country, I still keep most sweet memories. Skanderbeg was Albanian, his name was Gjergj (in English is George) Kastrioti , son of Gjon Kastrioti, an famous family in medieval Albania. If he has any thing to do with Serbian origin, is that his mother propably was serb. He has nothing to do with Greece ore Greek. This is very poor and based on religious fanatism saying that Gjergj Kastrioti was Greek-Serbian. Here in my country even that 90percent are nominally Muslim, only 4-7 percent supposed to practise Islam. I’m a proud for that I was grown in an secular country, with secular family which to us is considered traitor renegade that who divide Albanians based on religion. Gjergji was Albanian, orthodox faith, later to be converted in to Islam (forcedly of course) , and he died as an Christian Roman Catholic. He is our National hero, and his statue proudly stays in the centre of Kosovo Capital, Pristina.
Never heard of?
Eu4 players: let us introduce ourself
So that's why the Ottomans have cores in Albania in 1444
He should basically be Jadwiga in Civ 6. Those bonuses, minus the trade district make sense.
@@bukowski9526 You have to say that to Serbia and Greece leaders who created marriage with ottoman empire.
We Albanians do not give a Sh''i''t on muslim or christian religion when it comes to be ''Shqipetar''. Religion for us is like you or your family politic party support!!
@@alleshi5 yea for real my great grand father were Catholic while I’m called a Muslim but the blood line is pure so only what I call the creator sometimes has changes as even that is the same zot from my great grand fathers blood culture and everything is the same.
@@ledikraja6142 Agree!!!
I agree with History House! The General is the best general because he gave everyone the best insurance with Shazam himself
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That's what 6/6/6 and 5/5/5/0 stats does to a man.
Comrade Corbyn he's a 6/5/6 though
A yes, EU4 reference
The awarding of 5 manoeuvre is simply insulting
through the magic of EU4 I've heard of him.
Is he in EU4?
@@HistoryHouseProductions Yep and he's broken
@@HistoryHouseProductions he is a 6/5/6 ruler and starts as a 5/5/5/0 general which is SUPER OP in the early game
@@HistoryHouseProductions Yeah, he starts as the Albanian ruler and a general, and he's the best General in the start date, and the best general you will see in the early game [with is like 200 years]. His starts are quite fucking OP
Right on. I’ve never played as Albania, but I guess it makes sense for him to be in charge lol
"and since he lived in the Balkans, it didn't take too long"
😂😂😂
Until his natural death man !
If this guy is not in the next Civilization game, i'm gonna be pissed. Would be so cool to play as him.
That actually would be pretty sick
He won’t haha. If you want to play him in any game I suggest EU4 (Europa universalis 4)
Vlad the Impaler to Skanderbeg: “You and I aren’t so different”
Hobby: Spanking ottoman boiz
@@bajlozi6873 well one spanks one impales
skanderbeg fought against muslim invasion, but today albania is a muslim country. that's a biggest middle finger to skanderbeg.
@@dismas8884 you can say that. But hey the Albanians did keep resisting even when the Ottomans tried to assimilate them and even had a cultural revival so that's something
@@marseldagistani1989 the Ottomans never really tried to assimilate anyone tbh comrade, idk maybe they're lazy
Except if you're in Anatolia of course
Compared to the Europeans like holy hell have you ever wonder how Latin Americans speak Spanish and Portuguese even though they outnumbered the entire population of those two countries?
Murad II :
*"I have an Army."*
Albanians:
*"We. Have. Skanderbeg."*
Ottoman Army and Murad:
**[CONFUSED_SCREAMING]**
But turks won against him tho and ruled the balkan for 500 years
@Fafli Nah but whe still control albania for 500 years so?
@@easy5989 there was never full control , many albanians escaped in the mountains , where turks had no chance to get. Also when you talk about "we" then let me tell you something. Ottomans were at some point not only turks , not homogenous. Many or maybe most high positions in the ottoman empire like vizier ect. were Albanians (just like skanderbeg himself) . I could give you a long list with names but that would be to much.
When modern Turkey was born thanks to Atatürk , he was also albanian.
The biggest football club Galatasaray founded by Ali Sami yen, an albanian.
Turkeys national anthem written by an Albanian.
Turkey introduced the latin alphabet (with some modification done by atatürk) thanks to Atatürk and Mehmet Fuat Köprülü. Both Albanians.
Turkish Football legend Hakan Sükür , an Albanian.
I can go on and on, officials, generales, writters, scientists, actors and models, sportsman ect.
Albanians had and have a huge maybe even the biggest impact in ottoman and modern turkeys history and its victories. There are approximately 5-7 million albanians living in turkey. More than albanians in Albania + Kosovo combined!
Turkey is a multi-ethnical nation , not a homogenous. Besides albanians , there are greeks, bosnians , bulgarians, georgians (Erdogan is of georgian descent) kurds , ect. living in turkey.
What i want to say is, Turkey which is seen as the mother or big brother by the other turkic nations, like azerbaijan, turkmenistan, uzbekistan etc. , is the one which is the least of them being turkish by genetics / descendants.
@@skenderbegshala3247 with "we" i mean muslims
@Fafli Nah they never won against skanderbeg, they only won the battle in berat when skanderbeg wasnt present.
Me not being mentioned among history’s great: “My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.”
Please don’t invade my country
@@HistoryHouseProductions don't worry Britan will help you and colonize you yay you're safe
Uhh...
Vive Napoléon, vive l’empereur.
why do I see you everywhere? HHP, The Armchair Historian, Epic History TV, Kings and Generals...
Exactly stop invading youtube comment sections
i'm kind of surprised skanderbeg didn't find a way to ambush the ottomans by digging a tunnel under them and just having his men burst out of the ground like ants
That would be super scary
There is a story of him trapping ottomans in a tunnel and masscring them
Wow ..he is awsome ... He literally defeated everyone messed with him ...
He had 29 battles with ottomans 1 returned back, 1 Battle lost, 29 battles won against the ottomans, ✝️🇦🇱🦅⚔️🪓🗡
@@ervisisfacetoface8227 great dude
Ottoman Politician: signs the fake document
Skanderbeg: duped 100
Skanderbeg was so strong that the only thing that could beat him was an illness
Ottomans be like:
And they don't stop coming
And they don't stop coming
And they don't stop coming
And they don't stop coming
And they don't stop coming
And they all get slaughtered one by one.
You deserve faaaar more attention
Im Albanian and when i saw this i freaked. Also loved the a aron bit too.
Thank you! I’m glad you like it!
The 6, 5, 6 ruler and 5, 5, 5, 0 General what a Chad
I like your funny words magic man
Fun fact: Arm wrestling in Romania its called Skanderberg
really? there is a story in albania about him that says he chose his soldiers by arm wrestling and all of them were albanian
@@Shqiptari3 Szkander comes from him, yes, it's even used in Hungarian. It means arm wrestling.
@@martinhorvath4117 crazy
I know this, I was surprised because this is how we call it too!
My Romanian friend was surprised that he's an Albanian hero. He thought is something related with scandinavians countries lol
@@Shqiptari3 yes its true its a movie about him Skanderbeg you can see it but its on Albanian
Alessandro Cutolo ( Italian historian ) :
" Gjon ( father of Skanderbeg ) married Princess Vojsava, the daughter of another excellent Albanian leader, the Lord of Polog " .
Source : in is work "Skanderbeg" , p.20, published in Milan (Italy) in 1940
Vojsava is a typical albanian name hahahq... totally not serbian :)..
@@dzonimihajlovic2869( some Albanian women still have this name )
Alessandro Cutolo ( Italian historian ) :
" Gjon ( father of Skanderbeg ) married Princess Vojsava, the daughter of another excellent Albanian leader, the Lord of Polog " .
Source : in is work "Skanderbeg" , p.20, published in Milan (Italy) in 1940
@@dzonimihajlovic2869 Voisava (real name) ...
Anyway the first name doesn't mean anything ... ( You may very well be a Frenchman with an Italian first name ... )
What the Serbs don't understand is that in addition to being Muslims, the Albanians came from Latin/Catholic or Byzantine/Orthodox countries, the dominant culture in Orthodoxy is Greek and Slavic (as Turkish Arabic is for Islam). No wonder ...
@@Universal.. man, go watch ardian klosi the albanian historian what he said about skanderbegs origin..
@@dzonimihajlovic2869 This man is not reliable (he made a lot of mistakes ...).
Moreover he was not appreciated ...
Don't worry, the majority of Albanian historians will tell you that Skanderbeg was Albanian ...
A minority will tell you the opposite ...
But the majority of Albanian historians who will tell you that Skanderbeg was not Albanian are in fact ethnic minorities in Albania ... ( as for example : pascal milo who is Greek by descent and not Albanian etc ) .
I'm Italian & we know who he was, i thing everybody knows him in Italy... We have lots of statys in Italy the bigest is in Rom Piazza Albania and other EU _ contrys have his staty i know one in Belgium and I think its one in London
We have Some familiars there from Curbino (ancient town close to Daulia Vignolia and San Veneranda and Prodani zone where comes the pope Klementi XI
A friend of mine's ancestor! His descendants had to flee to southern Italy, in the region of Apulia, along with many Albanians who couldn't stand Ottoman supremacy. The Turks hoped his blood line would die out, but it lives to this day.
Yes i know of them is Ana Kastrioti
@@rickastley5321 no, I was actually talking about the family Castriota Skanderbeg
@@paolofumarola2319 yes , i said i know one of his descants , her name is Ana
@@rickastley5321 Does she live in Italy? I wouldn't guess so by the name...
@@paolofumarola2319 yes
The most underrated person, poor sikander bae.
Poor Skana Der Rey
He is not underrated to us who matter
Lol, a historian and a fond follower of comedy, nice reference of that classroom sketch btw, love it
As a Albanian, I can agree that Skanderbeg should be more appreciated in other countries, in my knowledge other history books (for example the American History Books) do not talk about Skanderbeg or anything about Albania. And also yes, Skanderbeg is our mascot lol.
The Man, the Myth, the Legend...
Also known as the only general that has a chance of winning against the Ottomans in 1444
Yes true , he try to be connected with Hungarian Huniadi but this point was not maked reality due to the Serbian closing road ! They are always Servs and one day we will know them who are they !
Nah,,, more like 25!
Arminius: I ambushed and destroyed three Romans legions and forced the empire to rethink their entire strategy regarding Germania.
Skanderbeg: Hold my beer...
Hold My Albanian Raki.*
Hold my rakija* 😂
One german other albanian 🥇🏅
@@aleksandarvil5718 bruh-😂
Skanderbeg: Savior of Europe, Protector of Christianity - the one who fought the biggest empire of the time (24 out of 25 victories), which actually gave the last blow to Roman Empire (Fall of Constantinople), no my friend he was not holding a beer.
This guy sounds really cool, I love learning about overshadowed or underrepsented militayr leaders.
Military*
Everybody asking who Skanderbeg is but nobody asking how Skanderbeg is 😥
skanderbeg fought against muslim invasion, but today albania is a muslim country. that's a biggest middle finger to skanderbeg.
@@dismas8884 Fr though
Me and my boy Bismarck and skanderbeg chillin
He’s doing great
@@dismas8884 not really, we love skenderbeg because he fought for albania and not for christ
@@liriani He literally ordered for Muslim Albanians to convert to Christianity or to be kiilled if they refused. If you truly belive that he fought "Culture and People" then my friend you are clearly delusional. Nationality was born in the 18th century and behond. In the Middle ages Jesus Christ and religion was the main focus. Back then people didnt give a **** if you were a Christian Turk, Arab, Serb or Greek. No racism back then.
It's nice to see our history get recognised, very good video.
BTW he actually died of Malaria.
Why no one in skanderbeg history videos ever mentions his relations with naples his campaign there and the arberesh.
I mentioned it very briefly, but I had to cut most of it out to save time
Also Hamza didn't die but was sent to prison in naples and than sold to the ottomans again after some years
Check the footnotes in the description. I go into some more detail there
@@HistoryHouseProductions you mentioned he invaded Italy. Not sure if that's true but I know he was allies with Italian leaders and would often fight for them. The Arbëreshë people are direct descendants of Skanderbeg's troops that were stationed in Italy or told to flee to Italy once Skanderbeg died.
edit:
Funny video and a great intro for the younger crowd.
@@markbalaj8389 abreshe are direct ancestors of scanderbegs army..yer because the catholik qlbanians Arnt loool..only difference is the catholiks of albania remained
Thank you for doing a video on albanian history! I cant find many videos on albanian history. Skënderbeg is really famous in albania and Kosovo.
No problem! He’s an interesting guy!
@@HistoryHouseProductions leave these dumb streamers guys, simp for
Skanderbro
@@HistoryHouseProductions you are historian and you know the truth albania is only geographical term their nation is mentioned in 18 century lol
@@denkapeneva2018 Albania has been mentioned in different names during the Medival Ages but has roots all the way to Ancient Greece
@@rronhaziri5619 no your nation shiptars are mentioned in 18 century
I want the first chapter of my story to have a cool pun like “Skanderbeginnings”
Send me your autobiography then
@@HistoryHouseProductions Connor I couldn’t help but notice you sound different
Something bad happened or something?
I think you should change your name, otherwise it will start with "Randombeginnings".
@@ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681 that wouldn’t be good
Cover them in bunkers and Chinese ammunition, Nice refence.
(laughs in Enver Hoxha)
Why so many bunkers its not like they were at war
@@nicbahtin4774 enver was paranoid
@@Someone-jz5pl
I guess man run out space to build factories so bunkers is the only thing left to build.
@@Someone-jz5pl every modern dictator ever
this was the best video on albania ive ever seen and u pulled some inside jokes as if u were albanian urself
I’m glad you liked it!
@Arber Xharra ive seen it
Well, time to play EU4 as Albania after this video.
I recommend. Played many times as Albania. Eat Serbia and some other ballkan contry you can get. Alliance potential with the Habsburg chins, Hungary and mabye Poland. Then proceed to spank ottomans 😝
@@bajlozi6873 it doesnt work, if you want to ally with Hungary amd poland(which is necessary to beat the ottomans) you dont need to expand at all , or they won't accept the alliance, then jjst beat the ottomans, take a few provinces and slowly eat them all, you also have to be lucky, Skanderbeg should survive at least 20 years and Hungary/poland should accept the alliance. If not you won'y succeed, i did one good campaign with Albania, ended up owning the whole balkans, Venice, austria, Hungary, half of poland, Anatolia, holy land and even egypt, i went revolutionary but sadly in the end a coalition war with the whole of europe broke out
@@blackpaint9093 rip
I only know him because he had this strange goat crown helmet i'm surprised that you didn't talk about that !
I saw that but decided that it looked too hard to draw haha
@@HistoryHouseProductions that makes me happy you said "damn this shit is awesome" proceeds to attempt single drawing " nah it's not that cool"
The goat on the Scanderbeg's helmet represents the ancient illyrian god PAN ore ALPAN whom the name ALBANIAN comes from,as many scholars think.(Niko Stillo,Germany).This god had a human body and the head and feet of a goat.Alexander The Great and Pyrrhus used similar helmets with the goat on them.The well known helmet was donated to Scanderbeg by the Pope of Vatican with the inscription "Georgivs Castriota,King of Albania and Epirus".The Vatican recognized Scanderbeg as the heir of Alexander The Great Alexander and Pyrrhus.The name Scander is the turkish version of Alexander.
he was a metalhead
His armor was heavy af also the goat is an ancient symbol, alexander the great and other ancient balkan civilizations rulers had it
This was pretty awesome. As Albanians he is our biggest Pride and represents us the best. Thank you for shedding light to his life and accomplishments. Im loving the comical style aswell, Cheers 🤙
Thanks! I’m glad you liked it!
the legend says that it took 4 people to actually carry his sword!
I personally was sceptic,but when I saw his original sword kept in Vienna,I said to myself:holy sh**,this sword is huge!
ps.
as you can see,I have his name,and I know that nobody cares,but ny father got a beating for giving me this name when I was born during the Yugoslav era!
back then,the serbian regime really hated us to the bone,and didn't want us to have Albanian names
I'm from Kosovo btw
Your father is a badass
That's sword isn't for fight is emblems, Lek Dukagjini was more warrior and more Powerful. 💪
Non it wasn’t for emblems but apparently you don’t know how big ans tall the man was. Like most of true highlanders. Leke Dukagjin is of course a legend and a hero but they were friends like brothers. Don’t make them rivals by comparing. Leke Dukagjin was the prince of north Albania. I’m from Shkodra so a know much about him and honor him but Gjergj has his history being raised far from his home and blood and this is particular because he must have suffered a lot about this distance and isolation and his strategies are like no one since he was son wise to earn the trust of the sultan and become his left hand to finally go unit and defend Albanian territory and blood.
Leke Dukagjin never had to leave his lands, he was the one whom trusted the most since they were both man of word and won’t betrayed after givin their “besa”.
Besa besa ka than Leka per ket tok s’na dhimset jeta… so proud to be a child of those mountains with such mighty ancestors.
🇦🇱🦅👐
Skanderberg:a random guy born in albania
The comments:albanian national anthem starts playing
True dat
If skanderbag was not born albania will not exist
Not a random guy born in Albania. He is Albania's national hero.
Not a random guy he was from a noble family the castle of kruje was his property
the second self called scanderbeg was a random guy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Manesi
Mehmed the second Said for Scanderbeg
“There won’t be another lion like him on this earth”
Skanderbeg himself defined himself as Albanian (handwritten letter).
Ex :
" Ioannes Antonius princeps Taranti Georgio Albano salutem "
= Georgio the Albanian 🇦🇱 salutes the prince Giovanni of Taranto .
Source : (Pope Pius II , Commentarii)
The same prince Giovanni Antonio described Skanderbeg as "Georgio Albano".
Lead us in the war against serbs in the comment section
Universal you big brained individual
that handwritten letter is nonexistant ... there is only a testimony of this story by pope in his autobiography.
@@SA-jd1rl Lie . 🤥
Here's an extra gift =
Skanderbeg's letter to Giovanni :
- "Moreover, you scorned our people, and compared the Albanians to sheep, and according to your custom think of us with insults .
Nor have you shown yourself to have any knowledge of my race .
My elders were from Epirus, where this Pirro came from, whose force could scarcely support the Romans .
This Pirro, who Taranto and many other places of Italy held back with armies .
I do not have to speak for the Epiroti.
They are very much stronger men than your Tarantini, a species of wet men who are born only to fish .
If you want to say that Albania is part of Macedonia I would concede that a lot more of our ancestors were nobles who went as far as India under Alexander the Great and defeated all those peoples with incredible difficulty .
From those men come these who you called sheep.
But the nature of things is not changed .
Why do your men run away in the faces of sheep ? " .
( Book VI of Pope Pius the II's Comentaries )
@@SA-jd1rl it is , is still in italy to this day
As an Albanian, I concur this is true
During his italian expedition Skanderbeg came to face a southern pro angevin italian lord named Giovanni Antonio Orsini, the two exchanged letters and discussed matters of pride and nationality. Heres just a little part from Skanderbeg's letter to Giovanni :
"Moreover, you scorned our people, and compared the Albanese to sheep, and according to your custom think of us with insults. Nor have you shown yourself to have any knowledge of my race. My elders were from Epirus, where this Pirro came from, whose force could scarcely support the Romans. This Pirro, who Taranto and many other places of Italy held back with armies.
I do not have to speak for the Epiroti. They are very much stronger men than your Tarantini, a species of wet men who are born only to fish. If you want to say that Albania is part of Macedonia I would concede that a lot more of our ancestors were nobles who went as far as India under Alexander the Great and defeated all those peoples with incredible difficulty. From those men come these who you called sheep. But the nature of things is not changed. Why do your men run away in the faces of sheep?"
And heres the link to the full picture, yes, a picture of the original letter Skanderbeg sent. Written in latin. 😊
www.google.com/search?q=skanderbeg+letter+to+prince+of+taranto&oq=skanderbegs+letter&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0i22i30i457j0i22i30.5647j0j9&client=ms-android-samsung-ga-rev1&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=t7FZ_ifkj5ZHPM
Thanks for sharing!
Oh wow don't show this to modern Albanian nationalists
@@hmmm6317 why not?
@@HistoryHouseProductions np, always trying to educate people on albanian history. Im really fond of my albanian identity, just like Skanderbeg was!
@@hmmm6317 skanderbeg said crazier shit than modern albanian nationalists
You deserve so much more recognition.
Happy to see you grow as a channel as much as it makes me happy to see your videos!
Wish you the best!
Thank you! I really appreciate kind comments like yours!
Underappreciated key and peele reference. You keep doing what you're doing man ❤️
I’m glad you liked it. Thanks!
Murad II ; Mehmed II: **has Ottoman Army**
4:35
Skanderbeg : _"Me And Horsey Bois"_
Everyone who ever played EU4 knows Scanderbeg as the most OP general of the game.
I absolutely *love* how far the quality of the videos on this channel have come
Thank you!
You made history fun .Good job buddy thanks for the video
Excellent work my friend. You have mastered modern post ironic comedy.
Thanks my dude
The ottomen army was incapacitated? Sounds familiar...
He was to be named the third dracula but the pope and also skanderbeg died before he got named
This channel is criminally underrated
Love these videos
When Skanderbeg comes to your house.
You are the guest.
Respect from Albania for this video.
Join the discord server in the description
@@trtyuiop yes
Now i feel like a proud Albanian
Hadrian was almost as straight as Heliogabalus.
His name was Georgios Kastriotis, not Skanderbeg and he was a Greek-Serbian, not Albanian.
@@aokiaoki4238 you balkan People are really funny with tour eternal hace bettewn each other
Please carry on
@@anarquia201 haha Wikipedia agrees with him though and there is a whole chapter on Wikipedia about the Albanian myth of skabdeberg from scholars that explain how this figure was used in late 19th and early 20th century from nationalistic propaganda. And guess what, all the scholars are not balkans. The sh! thole you live have taken a figure that fought with greek army from epirus and made him to look Albanian when he didn't even know Albanian language.
@@thesoundinyourhead1782 sure is a conspiracy of the academics of the world to support Albania narrative
Please carry on funny balkan people
I've only watched one video and this is already my new favorite channel - I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING SKSKKS
The real skanderbeg was the friends we made along the way
Impossible
True that
I’m glad to see skenderbag is also a patron
Take a shot every-time skenderbeg beats a ottoman army
I've missed your content so much!!!
Good thing I came back
He won becouse of his superiour beard.
Of course
That made me think of that episode in Dexter's Laboratory.
Imagine not knowing skanderbeg before this video.
Man, that guy was a total badass!
Dude, this animation Is awesome!:))
As most historians tells is today, Skanderbeg was just as powerful and smart as other great leaders back then..
You should make a part 2. Theres so much more things to talk about him (myths, his tools etc)
I got a passing grade on an essay off of his back by saying stuff like: About his death we can only say that there was no weapon, general or battle of the time worthy of killing him so in the end he was taken without a fight.
Awesome video. Thanks for your hard work. A few interesting facts to add for his legacy:
- His role and battles play a major role in the Albanian identity. You can easily say that being Albanian revolves around Skanderbeg
- Stradiot, a mercenary primarily Albanian group was formed from his battles.This mercenary group influenced the light cavalry of medieval Europe and is known to have fought as far as England.
- Skanderbeg was given lands in southern Italy because of his help. These lands were later populated by Albanians fleeing from the Ottomans. They still live in Italy for 500 years and are known as Arbereshe. They had a heavy impact on Albanian literary reinaissance and independence.
Thank you! These are some interesting facts!
thanks a billion times for this fantastic creative video , telling our Albanian history. With truly Love from Republic of Kosovo
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mehmed II: Aight screw this im just gonna build a new castle
Thank you very much for making this video. Skenderbeu is truly a great man and a man who i admire the most.
Is your dad the modern Scanderbeg??
I mean Edi RAMA 😊😊
@@shqiperia60 haha no, i hate Edi Rama. This last name is my moms.
@@TheMitrovica2007 It's an Indian name, probably came by Gypsies.
As an albanian i am impresed by rhis
Its so well done
Great work
A Fucking killed what the otoman empire can't kill
Thank you! I’m glad you liked it!
Hamza didnt get his head cut off he was forgiven but for ever exiled in Naples
Love ur channel bro these vids are amazing
Thanks so much!
THANKS FOR THIS VIDEO HE IS OUR BIGGEST FIGURE AND INSPIRE EVERY ALBANIAN !!
Skanderbeg's story resembles a lot to that of Maratha general, Bajirao I. Both fought against a much powerful enemy, never lost a battle, died from fever and both of them are massively underrated.
I’ll have to look into him
He never invaded, always fought for his land and his people. Not only he was a good fighter and strategic but he was very smart. He definitely was a visionary and played a role on civilization of Europe at the time. Long Lived his name and his deeds
Actually he did invade. Venice on some occasions and Serbia frequently. He needed the loot from Serbia and he needed to shut down Venice from sabotaging his ventures. Skanderbeg was a badass, way ahead in time.
Love your content . I have been following your channel for quite a while now.
My history teachers made me hate history but after watching your videos I wished I had history teachers like you.
Thanks so much! I’m so glad that I can help you like history!
Another solid production for the house of history
Lol Skanderbeg means armwrestling in Romanian in some regions at least :))
That’s interesting!
It's actually skanderberg, but I did see the name of Skanderbeg be written as Skanderberg in romanian.
@@HistoryHouseProductions This comes from an Albanian story, that Skanderbeg chose his first soldiers after doing armwrestling. The strongest soldiers became knights and the weakest soldiers became archers or infantry.
Well that random 🤔Skanderbeg is a Turkish version of Alexander. He was nicknamed that after Alexander the Great as he was from the same origin.
Lol
You know, before I remembered what the name actually is, I've thought Skanderbeg was some kind of a mythical goat, but this bc his balls of steel gave him so many victories, he _is_ the goat
What a coincidence, lmao XD
Also has a goat on his helmet
This is the only channel were you find history with fun 😊
following you since 8k my man so proud of you keep it up!
I appreciate it! Thank you!
Turks named him "Skanderbeg" by his ancestor Alexander the great because even Alexander(in albanian "a le' si n'andërr "or" he was born to be a warrior") of albanian tribe emathia(in albanian "the great land")who is nowadays macedonia(now inhabited with bulgarians that claim they're his ancestors but they're not) was an Albanian/Shqipetar too
I think they renamed him because they couldnt pronounce his real name.
Alexander the Great was Albanian bro even his name was Albanian "Meryamun" (mirë jam unë) that means "im fine", don't believe to greek nationalists they also say everyone is greek but hell no!
It's always great to see new video on this channel. I wanted to write something witty but I'm tired.
I’ll give you a pass this time
This video was really good