High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Siege of Shkodra of 1478-79 was a confrontation between the Ottoman Empire and the Albanians and Venetians at Shkodra and its Rozafa Castle during the First Ottoman-Venetian War (1463–79). It is also the title of a book describing the conflict authored by Marin Barleti, a Shkodran priest who witnessed the events firsthand. Ottoman historian Franz Babinger called the siege "one of the most remarkable episodes in the struggle between the West and the Crescent.”:363 A small force of approximately 1,600 Albanian and Italian men and a much smaller number of women:10-13 faced a massive Ottoman force containing artillery cast on site:134 and an army reported (though widely disputed) to have been as many as 350,000 in number.:160 The campaign was so important to Mehmed II "the Conqueror” that he came personally to ensure triumph. After nineteen days of bombarding the castle walls, the Ottomans launched five successive general attacks which all...

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