- The
siege of
Svetigrad or
Sfetigrad began on 14 May 1448 when an
Ottoman army, led by
Sultan Murad II,
besieged the
fortress of
Svetigrad (now Kodžadžik...
- 1385 and the name of the
village means Great Battle. It was
known as
Svetigrad[citation needed]
before the
Ottoman conquest in 1448, in
which Ottoman...
-
League of Lezhë, led by Skanderbeg,
experienced low
morale after losing Svetigrad and
Berat between 1448 and 1450. Nevertheless, Skanderbeg's exhortations...
-
recapture Svetigrad,
which had been lost in 1448. His
strategy involved launching an
invasion of
Macedonia to
devastate the
country surrounding Svetigrad and...
- 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...
- some less
important surrounding castles (Petrela, Prezë, Guri i Bardhë,
Svetigrad, Modrič and others) and
eventually gaining control over more than his...
- chapter, when
talking about the
inhabitants of
Upper Debar that
defended Svetigrad, he
calls them "Bulgarians or Triballi" (Bulgari sive
Tribali habitant)...
- Albania. At that time the
Ottomans were
already besieging the
fortress of
Svetigrad,
stretching Skanderbeg's
efforts thin. However, the
League of Lezhë defeated...
-
besieged the
fortress of
Svetigrad. The
first battle between Skanderbeg's and
Ottoman forces during the
Siege of
Svetigrad (Kodžadžik) in 1448 was held...
- some less
important surrounding castles (Petrela, Prezë, Guri i Bardhë,
Svetigrad, Modrič, and others) he raised,
according to Frashëri, a red standard...
