Papa Kaliksti III
In the letter that Pope Calixtis III sent to George Castriot with the Albanian Ambassador Gjergj Peter on September 11, 1457, in response to the request of our National Hero for Assistance to face the devastating campaigns undertaken by Ottoman hordes in Albania, reported that he had charged Johan Navarin, from church fees collected in Dalmatia, one third of them spent for the war’s needs, Skanderbeg.
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8 May 1910, took place the battle of Carralaves, between the Albanian insurgents and Ottoman armies
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8 May 1926, was concluded the agreement between the Albanian Government and the Serbian-Albanian Bank
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8 May 1937, King Zog I decreed the Law on Changing the Names of Some Cities, Villages, Wards, Rivers, etc