The League of Lezhë (Albanian: Lidhja e Lezhës) or also commonly referred to as the Albanian League (Albanian: Lidhja Shqiptare or Lidhja Arbërore) was a military and diplomatic alliance of Albanian feudal lords forged in Lezhë on 2 March 1444. The League of Lezhë is considered as the first unified independent Albanian country in the Medieval age, with Skanderbeg (birth name Gjergj Kastrioti) as leader of the regional Albanian chieftains and nobles united against the Ottoman Empire. Skanderbeg was proclaimed "Chief of the League of the Albanian people" while Skanderbeg always signed himself as ""Dominus" "Albaniae"" (Albanian: "Zot i Arbërisë", English: "Lord of Albania").