Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “Ottoman Empire”
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Skanderbeg Should Be a Prestige TV Series, and Nobody Has Made It
Every year brings another Roman general, another Tudor court, another Viking. The commissioning meetings clearly have a shortlist and it hasn’t changed since about 2005. Meanwhile there’s a man who held off the biggest military machine in Europe for twenty-five years, from a country you can cross in a day, and he has never had a season of television.
His name was Gjergj Kastrioti. The Ottomans called him Iskander Bey, after Alexander, which is how the rest of Europe got Skanderbeg.