Skanderbeg Dies at Lezhe
1468
The Albanian hero died of malaria in a fortress on the Adriatic, still unconquered. Without him, the mountain resistance rapidly collapsed. Ottoman forces swept south, and Albania became Ottoman territory for four and a half centuries. European chroniclers mourned; Mehmed II reportedly said he had finally lost his most worthy opponent.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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