The successes of Skanderbeg’s resistance fighters, who …
Years: 1463 - 1463
The successes of Skanderbeg’s resistance fighters, who often employ guerilla tactics against the Turkish invaders, had led to a major victory in 1461 that enabled Skanderbeg to force a ten-year truce on the Porte (the Ottoman government), but he himself breaks the truce in 1463 in response to Pope Pius II’s call for a new crusade against the Ottoman Turks.
Locations
People
Groups
- Islam
- Albanians
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Venice, (Most Serene) Republic of
- Albania, Sanjak of
- Macedonia, Ottoman Vardar
- Ottoman Empire
Topics
- Albanian Resistance, or Albanian-Turkish Wars of 1443-78
- Turkish wars of Matthias Corvinus (1458–1490)
- Ottoman–Venetian War (1463–1479)
