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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 54. Chapters: 1405 births, 1405 by country, 1405 deaths, 1405 establishments, 1405 in Europe, Conflicts in 1405, Pope Pius II, Constantine XI Palaiologos, Claus Sluter, Thomas Malory, Jean Froissart, John II of Castile, Skanderbeg, Timur, Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, Margaret III, Countess of Flanders, Gilabert de Proixita, Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, Marie I de Coucy, Countess of Soissons, Battle of Pwll Melyn, Philippe de Mezieres, Antonia Visconti, Komparu Zenchiku, Alianore Holland, Countess of March, Margaret Beauchamp of Bletso, William Wynford, Princess Milica of Serbia, James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond, Cornelius van Zierikzee, Thomas Beaufort, Count of Perche, Thomas de Mowbray, 4th Earl of Norfolk, Richard le Scrope, Kahoukapu, Jan III of O wi cim, List of state leaders in 1405, Ashraf Jahangir Semnani, Juan Alonso de Guzman, 1st Duke of Medina Sidonia, Astorre I Manfredi, Louis I, Count of Montpensier, Eleanor Maltravers, 2nd Baroness Maltravers, Sigismund I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Thomas West, 1st Baron West, Al-Damiri, Ludwik III of O awa, Menri Monastery, Francesco Novello da Carrara, Johann von Posilge, Francesco Carbone Tomacelli, Francesco III Ordelaffi, Virupaksha Raya, Bukka Raya II, Simon de Lalaing, Rhys Gethin, Alonso Diaz de Montalvo, Devotion of Verona to Venice, Abdarrahman al-Makudi, Gherardo Appiani, Tudur ap Gruffudd, Roberto Valturio, Marco Solari, Ibn al-Furat, 1405 in Ireland. Excerpt: George Kastrioti Skanderbeg (6 May 1405 - 17 January 1468), widely known as Skanderbeg (Albanian: , Latin: , Turkish: , meaning "Lord Alexander," or "Leader Alexander") was a 15th-century Albanian lord, who as leader of the federation of the League of Lezhe defended the region of Albania against the Ottoman Empire for more than two decades. Skanderbeg's military skills presented a major obstacle to Ott...