Constantine Kastrioti information

Constantine Kastrioti may refer to: Kostandin Kastrioti (d. 1390), great-grandfather of Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg Kostandin Kastrioti, son of Pal Kastrioti...

The Kastrioti were an Albanian noble family, active in the 14th and 15th centuries as the rulers of the Principality of Kastrioti. At the beginning of...

and Constantine, and five sisters: Mara, Jelena, Angelina, Vlajka and Mamica. According to the geopolitical contexts of the time, Gjon Kastrioti changed...

figures to the age of Constantine the Great and Muzaka downplayed the importance of other Albanian feudal families, including the Kastrioti. Despite their historical...

Cernoviche who were murdered by Hamza Kastrioti, the infamous nephew of Gjergj Kastrioti (Skanderbeg). Hamëz Kastrioti had appropriated the vast estates of...

to the life of the Albanian feudal lord and military commander Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg (6 May 1405 – 17 January 1468), widely known as Skanderbeg...

daughter of Gjon Kastrioti, Maria Kastrioti. The younger brother of Gjergj Arianiti, Vladan, married the daughter of Gjon Kastrioti, Angjelina, long before...

Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Empire on 29 May 1453, with the last emperor, Constantine XI Palaiologos, dying in the fighting. The Byzantine Empire was the medieval...

Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg, was created for the medieval Feudal Lord in the 15th century, was smuggled out of Albania by members of the Kastrioti noble...

(d. 1489) March 6 – King John II of Castile (d. 1454) May 6 – George Kastrioti, better known as Skanderbeg, Albanian national hero (d. 1468) (probable...

alliance of Albanian principalities, is established in Lezhë; George Kastrioti Skanderbeg is proclaimed commander of the Albanian resistance. May 22...

Archived 2006-06-19 at the Wayback Machine Frashëri, Kristo (2002), Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu: jeta dhe vepra, 1405–1468 (in Albanian), Botimet Toena, pp...

surviving Eastern Roman Empire since its consecration in 330 AD by Emperor Constantine I. The claim was soon recognized by the Patriarchate of Constantinople...

leading to the Serbian Despot and the Albanian resistance leader George Kastrioti Skanderbeg into direct opposition with their former masters. This led...

chiefly the Serbians, but also the Bulgarians and Albania under George Kastrioti (better known as Skanderbeg), while after 1472 the eagle was adopted by...

Muzaka Maria Muzaka, married Gjergj Arianiti Donika Kastrioti, Lady of Albania, married Gjergj Kastrioti Voisava Arianiti, Lady of Zeta, married Ivan Crnojević...

sources mention him as of Albanian noble descent like Skanderbeg or Hamza Kastrioti. The majority of sources describe him as an Albanian, with a smaller number...

marry Donika, Arianiti's daughter. The strong connections between the Kastrioti and Arianiti families were of great benefit to the Albanian cause. In...

Greeks, Constantine XI Palaiologos and Kolokotronis; and for Serbs, Miloš Obilić, Tsar Lazar and Karadjordje; for Albanians, George Kastrioti Skanderbeg;...

with the name "Hamza". In 1443 after the battle of Niš fled with George Kastrioti-Skanderbeg to the united Christian army and converted to Christianity...

summer of 1433, the Ottoman army subdued the rebels in the domains of Gjon Kastrioti, while his son Skanderbeg, who was also called to join the revolt, remained...

Press. p. 209. ISBN 978-0822320708.. "This happened in 1443 when Gjergj Kastrioti (called Skenderbeg), who had been reared as a Muslim in the sultan's palace...