“Venetian” Albania And Scanderbeg

Abstract

In the XIV-XV centuries, the Republic of Venice, or the Seignory as it is otherwise known, was a powerful political and military state of the time. It raised and strengthened as an aristocratic merchant republic in the XI century and had a powerful maritime fleet to controll the stocks circulation in the Mediterranean, Aegean and in the Adriatic mere.²
Byzantium palyed a significan role in Venice’s establishment and empowerment. Venetian merchants, agents and consuls were established time ago in the cities and trade centers of the Byzantine Empire; the Venetian merchants were early established in the coastal
cities of the Albania.³