League of Lezhe
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 127 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5092-2581-9
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The League of Lezhe (2 March 1444 – ca. 1468) was an alliance of Albanian principalities forged in Lezhe on 2 March 1444 and is regarded as the first unified Albanian state. It was initiated and organised by Skanderbeg with the aim of uniting the Albanian principalities that had been founded in the 12th - 14th centuries, to fight the Ottoman Armies. The league whose main members were the Arianiti, Dukagjini family, Spani, Thopia, Muzaka as well as the Albanian highlander clans was led by George Kastrioti Skanderbeg. After Skanderbeg's death the League was led by Leke Dukagjini. The League of Lezhe had the trappings of a confederation where each principality over all maintained its sovereignty. Skanderbeg was the supreme commander of the military alliance. All earlier and many modern historians accepted Marin Barleti's news about this meeting in Lezhe (without giving it equal weight), although no contemporary Venetian document mentions it....