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Albano Contarini was a Venetian nobleman and governor of Athens from 1395 to 1397. He was born to a Venetian father of the Contarini family and an Albanian mother from Avlona (Vlorë). He tried to buy Vlorë from Komnina, the wife of Balsha II. By July 18, 1399 Albano Contarini had been appointed podestà and captain of Nauplia and was to take over what was left of the government of Argos.

References

1. Blushi, B. (2011). Otello, Arapi i Vlorës: roman. MAPO Editions. ISBN 9789995639600. Retrieved 2014-10-05.
2. K.M. Setton (1975). Athens in the Middle Ages. Рипол Классик. pp. 261–. ISBN 978-5-88501-407-6.

• Republic of Venice nobility
• 14th-century Venetian people
• 14th-century Albanian people
• Medieval Athens
• Venetian governors