Order of Scanderbeg

KALB01  Urdhëri i Skënderbeut

• Order instituted in 1925.
• The Albanian Royal family maintain the order of Skanderbeg, which has only been awarded to a select number of people since the fall of the Monarchy 1939.
• The president and later king of Albania, Ahmet Zogu founded the order as an order with four grades. After the Italian annexation of Albania his successor, Victor Emanuel III, added a fifth grade, Officer, in 1940.
• Skanderbeg - Albania's most important national hero and a key figure of the Albanian National Awakening.

Kingdom of Albania