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Originally Posted by AmusedToDeath
Skenderbeg's mother was of Serb origin. That is undeniable.
Everything else makes him an Albanian, which he certainly was. But he was a fighter against the Turks, which helped alot every single people in the Balkans under Ottoman occupation.
I admire Skenderbeg and his deeds. But I am sad to hear his name being politicized, for in those times - the Slavs and the Albanians coexisted in peace.
In 20th century, they named an SS division of Albanians - Skenderbeg. Which is a total disaster.
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Her origin has been disputed many times.
His father was a lord of the Kastriotis family. Gjon Kastrioti[5], descended from an ancient family from Mat, and controlled a principality including Mat, Krujë, Mirditë and Dibër.[6]. Voisava, Skanderbeg's mother, was from the Tribalda family[5], a princess[7] from Polog valley[8].
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It is a curious circumstance that Skanderbeg's mother was a Slav woman, according to some sources a Bulgarian named Voisava, a fact recorded in an anonymous Venetian chronicle: "Huic uxor fuit Voisava, Pologi Domini filia, est autem Pologum oppidum in Macedoniae et Bulgarie confinibus" (the provinces of Upper and Lower Polog ranged over the territory of the Tetovo plain - A.t.)
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Gjergj Kastrioti's mother probably had some slav blood in her. Which is understandable at that time, as intermarriage between royal families at that time was common.
In the end it doesn't matter who his father married , as Skenderbeg fought for the ideals of his people and his country.
As far as the SS devision goes, those who joined the division in a way fooled themselves as they thought they would unite the Albanian lands like Gjergj Kastrioti himself once did, in 1444.