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Albanian Literature
Albanian literature stretches back to the Middle Ages and comprises those literary texts and works written in Albanian language, Albanian. It may also refer to literature written by Albanians in Albania, Kosovo and the Albanian diaspora particularly in Arbëreshë people, Italy. Albanian occupies an Isolated language, independent branch within the Indo-European languages, Indo-European family and does not have any other closely related language. The origin of Albanian is not entirely known, but it may be a successor of the ancient Illyrian languages, Illyrian language. The Archbishop of Antivari Guillaume Adam wrote a report in 1332 in which he said that Albanians used Latin letters in their books although their language was quite different from the Latin language. The oldest surviving documents written in Albanian are the "Formula e pagëzimit" (Baptismal formula) recorded by Pal Engjëlli, Bishop of Durrës in 1462 in the Gheg Albanian, Gheg dialect, and some New Testament ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pal Engjëlli
Pal Engjëlli (; 1416–1470) was an Albanian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as archbishop of Durrës from 1460 to 1469. In 1462 he wrote the oldest known text in Albanian. Life Pal Engjëlli was a part of the Engjëlli family. His father was Andrea Engjëlli and his mother was Dorothea Arianiti. Pal is reported to have been a friend, co-worker and close counselor of Skanderbeg. As his envoy, he frequently traveled abroad, seeking aid in the war against the Ottoman Empire. Engjëlli managed to convince Lekë Dukagjini to leave the Ottomans and later reconcile with Skanderbeg, and also to convince Skanderbeg to violate an armistice signed with the Ottomans. The Baptism Formula Document The sentence was the baptismal formula in the Gheg Albanian (): ''Un'te paghesont' pr'emenit t'Atit e t'Birit e t'Spertit Senit.'' () and in the Tosk-based standard: ). The formula was found in a pastoral letter written in the Latin script by Angeli after his visit to the Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Artioti
Michele () is an Italian male given name, akin to the English male name Michael. Michele (usually pronounced ), is also an English female given name that is derived from the French Michèle. It is a variant spelling of the more common (and identically pronounced) name Michelle. Michele can also be a surname. The names are ultimately derived from the Hebrew מִיכָאֵל, through the Greek Μιχαήλ and the Latin Michael meaning " Who is like God?". Men with the given name Michele *Michele (singer) (born 1944), Italian pop singer * Michele Abruzzo (1904–1996), Italian actor *Michele Alboreto (1956–2001), Italian Grand Prix racing driver *Michele Amari (1806–1889), Italian politician and historian * Michele Andreolo (1912–1981), Italian footballer *Michele Bianchi (1883–1930), Italian journalist and revolutionary *Michele Bravi (born 1994), Italian singer *Michele Cachia (1760–1839), Maltese architect and military engineer *Michele Canini (born 1985), Italian f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonicus Thomeus
Nicholas Leonicus Thomaeus (, , ; 1456–1531) was a Venetian scholar and professor of philosophy as well as of Greek and Latin at the University of Padua. Biography Thomaeus was born in Venice, Italy on February 1, 1456, to an Albanian or Greek family from Epirus or Albania. While in Florence, he studied Greek philosophy and literature under the tutelage of Demetrios Chalcondyles. In 1497, the University of Padua appointed Thomaeus as its first official lecturer on the Greek text of Aristotle. In 1504, he was elected to succeed Giorgio Valla as chair of Greek in Venice, but because Thomaeus failed to take the post seriously, he was succeeded in 1512 by Marcus Musurus. In 1524, Thomaeus published a collection of philosophical dialogues in Latin, the first of which was titled ''Trophonius, sive, De divinatione''. He was admired by scholars such as Desiderius Erasmus Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus ( ; ; 28 October c. 1466 – 12 July 1536), commonly known in English as Er ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gjon Gazulli
Gjon Gazuli, OP (, ) was a Dominican friar, humanist scholar, astronomer and diplomat from the Republic of Ragusa of Albanian origin.Proleksis enciklopedija LZMK ''Gazuli (Gazulić), Gjin (Ivan, Joannes)'' Refresged: February 20, 2014. Accessed June 9, 2016 (in Croatian) Name He is known in Albanian as Gjon Gjin Gazuli, or even Gjin Gazulli. In Croatian he is known as Ivan Gazulić, Ivan Gazul and Ivan Gazoli(in CroatianPrilozi za istraživanje hrvatske filozofske baštine, Vol.3. No.5-6 Prosinac 1977. Vladimir Bazala: ''Nekoliko hrvatskih prirodoslovaca - filozofa'', p. 182-183 (accessed June 9, 2016) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marino Becichemi
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Skanderbeg
Gjergj Kastrioti (17 January 1468), commonly known as Skanderbeg, was an Albanians, Albanian Albanian nobility, feudal lord and military commander who led Skanderbeg's rebellion, a rebellion against the Ottoman Empire in what is today Albania, North Macedonia, Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Serbia. A member of the noble House of Kastrioti, Kastrioti family, Skanderbeg was sent as a hostage to the Ottoman court. He graduated from the Enderun School and entered the service of the Ottoman sultan Murad II () for the next twenty years. His rise through the ranks culminated in his appointment as of the Sanjak of Dibra in 1440. During the Battle of Nish (1443), Battle of Nish in 1443, he deserted the Ottomans and Liberation of Kruja (1443), became the ruler of Krujë and nearby areas extending from Petrelë to Modrič, Struga, Modrič. In March 1444, he established the League of Lezhë, with support from Albanian nobility, local noblemen, and unified the Albanian principalities. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marin Barleti
Marin Barleti (, ; – ) was a historian, humanist and Catholic priest from Shkodër. He is considered the first Albanian historian because of his 1504 eyewitness account of the 1478 siege of Shkodra. Barleti is better known for his second work, a biography on Skanderbeg, translated into many languages in the 16th to the 20th centuries. Life Barleti was born and raised in Scutari (modern Shkodra, Albania), then part of the Republic of Venice. Although there is no debate whether Barleti was a native Shkodran or an Albanian in a geographical sense, and although there is indirect evidence that he considered his mother tongue to be Albanian, alternatively to an Albanian ethnic origin (supported by Zeno, Fallmerayer, Jireček), some scholars have hypothesized an Italian ( DuCange, Iorga), or Dalmatian ( Giovio, Czwittinger, Fabricius) ethnic origin. In his works Barleti repeatedly calls himself Shkodran (), and then equates being Shkodran with being Epirote, a term used by ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Expansion Of The Ottoman Empire
The Classical Age of the Ottoman Empire () concerns the history of the Ottoman Empire from the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 until the second half of the sixteenth century, roughly the end of the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520–1566). During this period a system of patrimonial rule based on the absolute authority of the sultan reached its apex, and the empire developed the institutional foundations which it would maintain, in modified form, for several centuries. The territory of the Ottoman Empire greatly expanded, and led to what some historians have called the '' Pax Ottomana''. The process of centralization undergone by the empire prior to 1453 was brought to completion in the reign of Mehmed II. Territory The Ottoman Empire of the Classical Age experienced dramatic territorial growth. The period opened with the conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed II (r. 1451–1481) in 1453. Mehmed II went on to consolidate the empire's position in the Balkans and Anatoli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Historia De Vita Et Gestis Scanderbegi, Epirotarum Principis
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