Team, Place & City Details

KF Skënderbeu Korçë

Klubi Futbollistik Skënderbeu Korçë , is an Albanian professional football club based in Korçë, a city in southeastern Albania. The club play in the Albanian Superliga, which is the top tier of football in the country.

Skënderbeu Stadium
Skënderbeu Stadium

Stadiumi Skënderbeu is a multi-purpose stadium in Korçë, Albania. The ground is currently the home of KF Skënderbeu Korçë.

Skënder Begeja

Skënder Begeja is a former Albanian football forward. He made four appearances for the Albanian national team.

KF Skënderbeu Korçë B

Klubi Futbollistik Skënderbeu Korçë B is the reserve team of KF Skënderbeu Korçë. The team is currently not competing in the any football league.

Lake Ohrid
Lake Ohrid

Lake Ohrid is a lake which straddles the mountainous border between the southwestern part of North Macedonia and eastern Albania. It is one of Europe's deepest and oldest lakes, with a unique aquatic ecosystem of worldwide importance, with more than 200 endemic species.North Macedonia's side of Lake Ohrid was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979, with the site being extended to also include the cultural and historic area of Ohrid in 1980.

Pogradec
Pogradec

Pogradec is a city and municipality in central Albania, situated on the shores of the Ohrid lake. The lake is one of Europe's deepest and oldest lakes.

Pogradec District
Pogradec District

Pogradec District was one of the thirty-six districts of Albania (which were dissolved in 2000) that is now part of Korçë County. It had a population of 70,575 (2010 estimate), and an area of 725 km².

Pogradec Castle

Pogradec Castle is a ruined castle in Pogradec, eastern Albania. At its highest point, it stands 205 metres (673 ft) above Lake Ohrid.

Lasgush Poradeci
Lasgush Poradeci

Llazar Sotir Gusho , commonly known by the pen name Lasgush Poradeci, was an Albanian philologist, poet, translator, writer and pioneer of modern Albanian literature. He is regarded as one of the most influential Albanian writers of the 20th century whose works are directly connected with Romanticism and Realism.Born in the small town of Pogradec on the Lake of Ohrid in Ottoman-occupied Albania, he completed his primary and secondary education in Monastir and Athens, and thus received his academic education at the universities of Bucharest and Graz.

Skanderbeg
Skanderbeg

Gjergj Kastrioti , known as Skanderbeg (Albanian: Skënderbej or Skënderbeu from Ottoman Turkish: اسکندر بگ‎, romanized: İskender Beğ), was an Albanian nobleman and military commander who led a rebellion against the Ottoman Empire in what is today Albania, North Macedonia, Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia. A member of the noble Kastrioti family, he was sent as a hostage to the Ottoman court.

21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg
21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg

The 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg was a German mountain infantry division of the Waffen-SS, the armed wing of the German Nazi Party that served alongside, but was never formally part of, the Wehrmacht during World War II. The division was developed around the nucleus of an ethnic Albanian battalion which had briefly seen combat against the Yugoslav Partisans in eastern Bosnia as part of the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian). Composed of Albanians with mostly German and Yugoslav Volksdeutsche (ethnic German) officers and non-commissioned officers, it was given the title Skanderbeg after medieval Albanian lord George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, who defended the region of Albania against the Ottoman Empire for more than two decades in the 15th century.

Skënderbegas
Skënderbegas

Skënderbegas is a village and a former municipality in the Elbasan County, central Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Gramsh.

Skender Pasha

İskender Pasha Mihaloğlu , known simply as Skender Pasha, was the sanjakbey of the Bosnian Sanjak in period 1478–1480, 1485–1491 and 1499–1504.