The Siege of Shkodra of 1478–79 was a confrontation Hostile_encounter between the Ottoman Empire and the Albanians and Venetians at Shkodra ( Scutari in Italian ) and its Rozafa Castle during the First Ottoman-Venetian War ( 1463–79 ) .

Shkodra then became Becoming a seat of the newly established Ottoman sanjak , the Sanjak of Scutari .

The League won over the Venetian forces Causation on 23 July 1448 at the gates of Scutari , and over the Ottomans three weeks later , on 14 August 1448 , at the Battle Hostile_encounter of Oronichea .