- The
siege of
Svetigrad or
Sfetigrad (Albanian:
Rrethimi i Sfetigradit)
began on 14 May 1448 when an
Ottoman army, led by
Sultan Murad II,
besieged the...
-
Turkish expression kocacenk,
which means big battle. It was
known as
Svetigrad before the
Ottoman conquest in 1448, in
which Ottoman forces captured...
-
recapture Svetigrad,
which had been lost in 1448. His
strategy involved launching an
invasion of
Macedonia to
devastate the
country surrounding Svetigrad and...
-
League of Lezhë, led by Skanderbeg,
experienced low
morale after losing Svetigrad and
Berat between 1448 and 1450. Nevertheless, Skanderbeg's exhortations...
- chapter, when
talking about the
inhabitants of
Upper Debar that
defended Svetigrad, he
calls them "Bulgarians or Triballi" (Bulgari sive
Tribali habitant)...
- and Skanderbeg, but the
latter responded that he
would only
accept if
Svetigrad and Berat,
which had been lost in 1448 and 1450 respectively, were restored...
- by Pope
Nicholas V,
Murad invaded Albania,
conquering the
fortress of
Svetigrad. Meanwhile, four
years after his
defeat at Varna, John Hunyadi, the richest...
- Albania. At that time the
Ottomans were
already besieging the
fortress of
Svetigrad,
stretching Skanderbeg's
efforts thin. However, the
League of Lezhë defeated...
-
Torvioll (1444),
Mokra (1445), Otonetë (1446),
Oranik (1448), a loss at
Svetigrad (1448)
victory in
Polog (1453),
victory at Krujë (1450),
Albulena (1457)...
- some less
important surrounding castles (Petrela, Prezë, Guri i Bardhë,
Svetigrad, Modrič and others) and
eventually gaining control over more than his...
