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| SKENDERBEG | |  Gjergj Kastrioti Skenderbeg astrioti was born in Kruja from Gjon Kastrioti, lord of Middle Albania, who was obliged by the Ottomans to pay tribute to the Empire. To assure the fidelity of local rulers the Sultan used to take their sons as hostage and bring them up in his court. Gjergj Kastrioti attended military school in the Ottoman Empire and was named Iskander Bey which in Turkish means Lord Alexandre.
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| KING - AHMET ZOGU | |  Ahmet Bey Zogu (b. Oct. 8, 1895, Castle Burgajet, Albania--d. April 9, 1961, Suresnes, France), president of Albania from 1925 to 1928 and king from 1928 to 1939. Though able to manipulate Albania's internal affairs to his own advantage, he came to depend heavily on Benito Mussolini's Italy and was eventually ousted by the Italian dictator on the eve of World War II.
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| ENVER HOXHA | |  Enver Hoxha (b. Oct. 16, 1908, Gjirokast‘r, Alb.--d. April 11, 1985, Tiran‘), the first communist chief of state of Albania. As that country's ruler for 40 years after World War II, he forced its transformation from a semifeudal relic of the Ottoman Empire into an industrialized economy with the most tightly controlled society in Europe. Hoxha, the son of a Muslim cloth merchant, studied at the French lycÚe at Kor‘.
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| MOTHER TERESA - GONXHE BOJAXHIU 1910 - 1997 | | |  Mother Teresa has dedicated all her life full of sacrifices to the benefit of the poor, banished, the sick, those who have no sanctuary and are deprived of love. She has always attested to the power of fraternal friendship by so encouraging the true human and social development”
Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 27, 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. | | |
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Illyria Entertainment Group proudly presents a powerful and gripping documentary account of the life and times of a great warrior. We must travel far, both in place and time. The country is Albania; the century is the fifteenth; and the warrior is Gjergj Kastrioti, commonly known as Scanderbeg. View the sneak preview short now |
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