The Princess Argjiro is a legendary figure in the Albanian mythology of whom Ismail Kadare

Ismail Kadare

Ismail Kadare is an Albanian writer. He is known for his novels, although he was first noticed for his poetry collections. In the 1960s he focused on short stories until the publication of his first novel, The General of the Dead Army. In 1996 he became a lifetime member of the Academy of Moral...

 wrote a poem in the 1960s. According to ethnograph and historian Fotaq Andrea, the legendary figure was placed in the 15th century as a woman, who, along with her child, threw herself from the Gjirokastër Castle

Gjirokastër Castle

Gjirokastër Castle is a castle in Gjirokastër, Albania ....

 so that she may not end up at the hands of the Ottomans

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

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