CASUALTY RECORD // September 11, 1457
Battle of Albulena
Estimated casualties — killed, wounded, captured, and missing — by side, with confidence labels per surviving record.
Casualties by side
1 sides catalogued · combined 15,000 estimated
Ottoman Empire
15,000
Medium-confidence figure
Battle context
The Battle of Albulena was fought on 2 September 1457 between the League of Lezhë under Skanderbeg and an Ottoman force under Ishak Bey and Hamza Kastrioti, the latter being Skanderbeg's own nephew fighting for the opposing side. The engagement placed a force of 8,000–10,000 Albanian troops against an Ottoman army estimated at 50,000–80,000. Ottoman casualties are recorded at 15,000, indicating the scale of the defeat inflicted on a force that substantially outnumbered the League of Lezhë. The battle represents one of the significant Albanian military engagements during Skanderbeg's sustained resistance against Ottoman expansion into the western Balkans, a campaign that kept Albanian territory outside effective Ottoman control for decades within the broader arc of Ottoman Wars in Europe.
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