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Skenderbeg

Skenderbeg was born in 1404 in northern Albania to a Serbian noble family. He was taken by the Turks at age 18 and fought for them for 20 years, rising to become a great military leader. However, he renounced Islam and returned to Orthodoxy. For the next 20 years, he fought against the Turks to prevent them from taking control of his homeland until his death. His father and brother are buried at Hilandar, the most sacred Serbian monastery on Mount Athos. The document aims to provide context about Skenderbeg's Serbian heritage in a time when Serbs and Albanians lived together without division before Turkish occupation.

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Skenderbeg

Skenderbeg was born in 1404 in northern Albania to a Serbian noble family. He was taken by the Turks at age 18 and fought for them for 20 years, rising to become a great military leader. However, he renounced Islam and returned to Orthodoxy. For the next 20 years, he fought against the Turks to prevent them from taking control of his homeland until his death. His father and brother are buried at Hilandar, the most sacred Serbian monastery on Mount Athos. The document aims to provide context about Skenderbeg's Serbian heritage in a time when Serbs and Albanians lived together without division before Turkish occupation.

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Rođen je 1404.

na severu današnje Albanije kao Đurađ Kastriotić (prezime je nastalo od


grčke reči ‘kastro’ što znači dvorac), od oca Jovana i majke Vojislave. Imao je braću
Stanišu, Repoša, Kostadina i sestre Maru, Jelenu, Angelinu i Vlajku. Jovan Kastriotić je sa
sinovima često odlazio u Hilandar, a i novčano je pomagao srpski manastir na Svetoj
Gori. Đurađ je imao 18 godina kad je odveden u janjičare. Turci su mu dali ime Iskander-
beg, a kasnije je to postalo Skenderbeg. Punih dvadeset godina je ratovao za Turke i
izrastao u velikog vojskovođu. A onda je pobegao. Sa 300 najboljih ratnika je napustio
tursku vojsku i vratio se u rodni kraj. Odrekao se islama i vratio na pravoslavlje. Sledećih
20 godina se borio protiv Turaka i sve do njegove smrti oni nisu mogli da ‘privire’ u te
krajeve.

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I just wanted to translate this text about Skenderbeg for all who don't understand Serbian
language and this is the truth that came from several written sources. Even the Albanian
historians know this very well, but choose to keep quiet about it. Here it goes:

Born in 1404 in the north of present-day Albania (Serbia in that time) as Djuradj (George)
Kastriotic (surname is derived from the Greek word 'Castro', which means castle), father
Jovan (John) and mother Vojislava (Serbian noblewoman from Donji Polog, present-day
Macedonia). He had brothers Stanisha, Reposh, Kostadin and sisters Mara, Jelena
(Helen), Angelina and Vlajka. Jovan Kastriotic often went to Hilandar with his children,
and financially assisted the most sacred of Serbian monasteries on Mount Athos, as we
Serbs call it "Holy Mountain". Djuradj was 18 years old when he was taken to the
janissaries. The Turks gave him the name Iskander Bey (Turks used the name Iskander
for Alexander the great), later to become Skenderbeg. For twenty years he fought for the
Turks and grew into a great military leader. And then he ran away. With 300 best warriors
left the Turkish army and returned to his hometown. He renounced Islam and returned to
Orthodoxy. The next 20 years he fought against the Turks and until his death, they could
not even "take a peek" at these areas.

His father Jovan and brother Reposh are buried in Hilandar, most sacred Serbian
monastery on Mount Athos, as Serbian monks.

What is my point for writing this? I just wanted to point out that Serbs and Albanians
were once brotherly nations, proud to live together and Albanians insisted to serve under
Serbian ruler and they were proud of it. Until Turks came and turned them against Serbs
and later Austro-Hungarians continued to widen that division with lies and propaganda.

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