Quote from Lord Byron:
“Land of Albania! let me bend mine eyes
On thee, thou rugged Nurse of savage men!”
Albania comprises part of Macedonia, Illyria, Chaonia, and Epirus. Iskander is the Turkish word for Alexander; and the celebrated Scanderbeg (Lord Alexander) is alluded to in the third and fourth lines of the thirty-eighth stanza. I do not know whether I am correct in making Scanderbeg the countryman of Alexander, who was born at Pella in Macedon, but Mr. Gibbon terms him so, and adds Pyrrhus to the list, in speaking of his exploits.”
Source
The Works Of Lord Byron Vol.II by Ernest Hartley Coleridge. Lord Byron who visited Albania in 1809.
