Scanderbeg
Subtitle: From Ottoman Captive to Albanian Hero
Contributors: Bejtullah Destani (Editor); Westrow Cooper (Editor); David Abulafia (Introduction)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: June 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781850439417
Subjects: Biography: general; History - General History; Eastern Europe - General; History; Textbooks; History: World; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); History / Europe / Eastern; Europe - Baltic States
First sentence: WHEN THE TURKISH armies first came to Europe to win for themselves the lands that the Byzantine emperors were no longer strong enough to rule, they quickly digested the succulent flesh of the Balkans: the rose-heavy valleys of Bulgaria, the Serbian plum orchards and the olive groves of Greece.