The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, today remembered Gjergj Kastriot-Skanderbeg, on the 555th anniversary of his death. He emphasized that Skanderbeg still continues to inspire with his story.
“Skanderbeg was the genius military strategist who, with numerically limited military troops, managed to face the large armies of the most powerful political force of the time, the Ottoman Empire. Skanderbeg was the politician who managed to unite in Lezha (1444) in a political and military alliance, the dynasties of the majority of Arber nobility, after they had fallen under the vassalage or domination of the Ottomans. His diplomats such as Pal Engjëlli, Gjergj Pelini and Gjon Gazulli, but also Skanderbeg himself, had diplomatic relations with Ragusa, with the Republic of Venice, with Janos Huniad of Hungary, with the Popes of the Holy See in Rome as well as with Alfonso of Naples and Aragon, with which he concluded the Treaty of Gaeta (1451). As he himself declared as “a friend of virtue and not of fate”, Skanderbeg was loyal to his allies, so much so that for Ferdinand I of Naples, he went to war with the Italian princes (1461/’62) responding to the alliance he had with of his father, Alfonso”, wrote Kurti…
