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Location: Meran > Merano Trentino-Alto Adige Italy

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.