Antemurale Christianitatis

Antemurale Christianitatis (English: Bulwark of Christendom) was a label that Pope Leo X gave to Croatia in 1519 which was the frontiers of Christian Europe, defending it from the Ottoman Empire. == Albania == In the 15th century Pope Pius II, admiring the Ottoman–Albanian Wars waged mainly by Skanderbeg, defined Albania as Italy's bastion of Christianity (Latin: Antemurale Christianitatis Italiaeque).

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