Balec was a medieval fortified town near Shkodër in Albania. The settlement originated in Roman times. During Byzantine rule over the area, it was part of the Dyrrhachium theme. Later it was a seat of a župa of the Kingdom of Duklja, and later still of the Lordship of Zeta. Balec suffered much damage during the Second Scutari War between the Serbian Despotate and the Republic of Venice. After the Republic of Venice gained control over it at the beginning of the 15th century, its size was reduced to a small pronoia with only 25 houses, and the fortress was abandoned and fell to ruin. Skanderbeg's forces rebuilt the fortress during his war with Venice in 1448 and established a strong garrison in it, but the Venetian forces soon drove them away and demolished the fortress. Ottoman plans to rebuild Balec and populate it with Turkish settlers were never implemented and Balec remained in ruins, which can still be seen today.
39″N 19°28′46.24″E / 42.1989972°N 19.4795111°E / 42.1989972; 19.4795111 Balec was a medieval fortified town near Shkodër in Albania. The settlement originated...
Pjetër Spani about the large Venetian forces heading toward Balec. Venetian forces recaptured Balec, burned wooden parts of the construction and destroyed...
The Balec Mosque (Albanian: Xhamia e Balecit) is named after the Balec neighborhood of Gjilan, Kosovo, where it was built in 1905, at the time on the outskirts...
beginning of 1474 the Ottoman sultan intended to rebuild Podgorica and Baleč and settle them with 5,000 Muslim families (most of them of Albanian or...
the Republic of Venice in the region of Balec and Drisht (modern day Albania) in the 15th century. When Balec came under control of the Republic of Venice...
1016/j.cemconcomp.2004.01.002. ISSN 0958-9465. Knight, Christopher T. G.; Balec, Raymond J.; Kinrade, Stephen D. (2007). "The Structure of Silicate Anions...
Balecium (Latin name) or of Balecio/Balezo (in Curiate/Venetian Italian) or of Baleč (in Serbian) is a former Latin Rite bishopric and present titular see of...
government of Bashar al-Assad. Mudalal Khoury is linked to four companies, Balec Ventures, the sanctioned firm Argus Construction, and Tredwell Marketing...
Albanian victory at the Battle of the River Drin in July. Scutari is besieged. Balec is garrisoned by the Albanians but a Venetian offensive retakes and burns...
which also included visit to ruins of Baleč. Jastrebov described the ruins of two Orthodox churches in Baleč, whose ruins belonged to the territory of...
Trading signed a contract to buy $3,172,000 worth of "furniture", from Balec Ventures, a company owned by Issa al-Zeydi, who is a Russian of Syrian descent...
Malësia e Gjakovës, which includes the tribes of Krasniqi, Gashi and Bytyqi. Baleč and its surroundings were part of the Byzantine Theme of Dyrrhachium until...
which was surrounded by a number of smaller cities like Bar, Ulcinj, Šas, Balec, Sepa and Lezhë. The main cities in the south were Berat, Vlorë, Ioannina...
Drivast. Marin Span was commander of Skanderbeg's forces which lost fortress Baleč to Venetian forces in 1448 during Skanderbeg's war against Venice. Marin...
failed to capture it. December – Skanderbeg's forces rebuilt the fortress of Baleč and established a garrison of 2,000 men in it, with Marin Spani as commander...
the village of Pulaj near Velipojë and Dimitër Kakarriqi in the town of Balec. In 1455 the Kakarriqi are mentioned as one of the communities that entered...
Battle of Torvioll on 29 June 1444. Skanderbeg's forces lost the fortress Baleč to Venetian forces in 1448 during Skanderbeg's war against Venice. The Ottoman...
camp enlisting the expertise of former Warner Music Canada label rep Greg Balec in attempts to make waves at country radio. A lead-off single was rushed...
brothers, possibly sons of Nikola Rodop Andrija Humoj (fl. 1422), fortress of Baleč Kalojan Rusota, counselor, nobleman from Greece Mihailo Mihaljević, nobleman...
1416-17 cadaster one of them Petro Prekali appears as ducal citizen of Balec. Others in the cadaster appear as pronoiars recognized by Venice in villages...
Leporoshi is also recorded as among the inhabitants of the fortified town of Balec. A branch of the Lepuroshi also settled in the lowlands of Shkodra, where...
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