Brewer's: Scanderbeg

A name given by the Turks to George Castriota, the patriot chief of Epirus. The word is a corruption of Iskander-beg, Prince Alexander (1414-1467).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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