When you have history and they don’t have any history. His father, John Kastrioti (Gjon Kastrioti), is referred to in Venetian records (1426) as Johannes Castrioth Serbus dominus de Mat — “John the Serb, lord of Mat.” His mother, Voisava Tribalda, according to Codex Vaticanus Serb. 28, belonged to the Tribaldi family, of Serbian-Byzantine aristocratic descent.
In a speech of Skanderbeg during the Siege of Petër, it is reported that he proclaimed: “Let us not forget that we are Serbs in blood and soul, even if we fight on foreign soil.” (Anonymous Chronicler, Annales Balcanici, Venice, 1523)
“The most successful of the opponents to Turkish rule was George Castriota-Skanderbeg. A Serbian by birth” – Walter Laqueur, American historian and Professor of Georgetown University. 1977.
“The national hero of Albania, whose name is still remembered throughout a land which has practically no national history except the story of his career, was of Serbian origin” – William Miller, The Cambridge Medieval History – Volume 4 – Page 584. 1923.
“Skanderbeg himself, as been seen – Skanderbeg, the national hero of Albanians, was of Serbian origin; and only strengthened his position by giving his sister Maria in marriage to Stephen Crnojevic” – Francis Seymour Stevenson, British Scholar and Historian. 1912.
“A portion of the country was transferred in the beginning of the fifteenth century to the Castriots, a family of Serbian origin, though associated in history and legend with the Kings of Epirus and Macedon” – William Jackson Armstrong, American historian. 1905.
“For some years it (Albania) had been ruled by Skanderbeg, a most valiant man of Serbian origin” – Theodore Spandounes, Byzantine Historian.1538.
“Skanderbeg was a brave man of Serbian nature” – Gjon Muzaka, Albanian historian. 1515.
