Shoqata Kontesha Entelina

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New Orleans, Louisiana
September 8, 1986

The centennial of the Contessa Entellina Society and this commemerative volume are dedicated
to Albania's greatest hero, Prince George Kastriot Scanderbeg. From our proud history which
follows, the reader may glean something of the glorious past of the Arbreshe people-and
something of our hope for the future.


Bret A. Clesi, Historian
Contessa Entellina Society


By the middle of the nineteenty century, the City of New Orleans had already celebrated
her centennial. It was during the 1850's in the midst of the reign of Queen Victoria in England
and while tempers were beginning to flair in the antebellum South, that the first Arbreshe
(Albanians) arrived in New Orleans. These Arbreshe, descendents of the ancient kingdoms of
Epirus, Macedonia and Illyria, fled their village, Contessa Entellina, in Sicily where they had
lived since 1467. These former citizens of Contessa Entellina, representatives of the most
ancient Indo-European peoples, brought forth to New Orleans their ancient Illyrian language,
their ancient religion, their industriousness and their dreams.

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Nder te tjera ne shkrimin qe eshte dhene ne adresen e dyte, thuhet se dhe familja mbreterore britanike, pretendon qe ka lidhje gjenealogjike me trungun e Kastrioteve.

... "Indeed, through marriage, Scanderbeg's name is claimed amongst the ancestors of England's royal family. Queen Elizabeth II, her son, the Prince of Wales, and now the Prince of Wales's son, England's king well into the twenty first century, will proudly recite Scanderbeg as part of their history...