Gjergj Kastrioti aka Skanderbeg aka İskender Bey

[Yesugey]

Here is a big secret guys, I am suprised no one told before: Skandenberg is a great leader because he was an Ottoman General.

He was one of the commanders of the Janissaries, He was conquering the land for Ottomans. Then he asked for more title and money and rejected, he felt vengeance and switched to the other side.
Since he knows Ottomans best tricks, where their camps are, how their armies works and what the weak points are.. He put a deadly blow.

At past, people were not divided as nations, there was no "Albanian independence", or "Fighting for Europe and Christendom".
People fight for the kings or money. If you call Albania as an Albanian land, the Albanian king would kill you, because the land belongs to him. Not Albanians.

Another debate is, about Albania at those times, yes it was not number one priority for anyone, that's correct. But it was on the way of Western Europe, so i's not like "doesn't worth conquering, it was a foothold.

Ottomans conquered the land, left it to local lord, Skandenberg. And through history, when local lords get disappointed, tried to take the land for their own most of the time. Not for Albanians, not for Christendom. For themselves.
It's actually extremely similar story of Vlad Dracul and Arminius(Hermann). then again, Ottoman Empire is extremely similar with Roman Empire.