 Skanderbeg 's Italian expedition ( 1460 – 1462 ) was undertaken to aid his ally Ferdinand I of Naples , whose rulership was threatened by the Angevin Dynasty . George Kastrioti Skanderbeg was the ruler of Albania ( Latin : dominus Albaniae ) who had been leading a rebellion against the Ottoman Empire since 1443 and allied himself with several Western European monarchs in the process. Unterscheidung zwischen „Albanien“ und „Albaner“ ist eine Tatsache. Albania was a vassal of the Ottoman Empire from 1479 until 1912, when it declared its independence. It is the only country in Europe that has no access