Realm · approximate borders · 1444–1468

League of Lezhë

Alliance of the Albanian lords (Kastrioti, Arianiti, Zaharia, Muzaka, Spani, Thopia, Dukagjini, Balsha, with the Crnojevići of Zeta) formed at Lezhë on 2 March 1444 under Skanderbeg, who held off Ottoman armies at Krujë until his death in 1468; the league then dissolved, and Krujë fell in 1478. Skanderbeg and his allies held the inland lands; Durrës, Lezhë and Shkodër on the coast were Venetian.

The lands they held shifted with each campaign. Sources: Wikipedia 'League of Lezhë', 'Skanderbeg'.

See League of Lezhë on the map in 1444

On the map: 1444–1468
Capital: Krujë

Rulers named in the sources

Skanderbeg (Gjergj Kastrioti) 1444–1468
Lekë Dukagjini 1468–1479

Eastern European states, 82 BC – 1952

States of central-eastern and south-eastern Europe, the Baltic and the north-western Caucasus: Burebista's and Decebalus' Dacia, the principality of Abasgia, Rus' Tmutarakan, Circassia until the Russian conquest of 1864, the Emirate of Bari, the Albanian principalities of Arbanon and the Thopia and Skanderbeg's League of Lezhë, Zeta under the Balšići and Crnojevići, Lombard Negroponte, Acciaioli Athens, the Livonian prince-bishoprics of Riga and Ösel–Wiek, the prince-bishops of Montenegro, the wartime Slovak Republic and post-war Poland before 1953. Few of these frontiers were ever surveyed.