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Successful defensive moves during the Serbian Campaign of World War I kept the Central Powers out of Albania until 1915. Bulgaria was finally coaxed into entering the War on the side of the Central Powers and the Austro-Hungarians and Germans began their attack against Serbia on October 7 while on October 14, 1915, the Bulgarian Army attacked ...
The new Albanian unity was briefly interrupted by the 1921 rebellion of Catholic tribes in Mirdita led by Marka Gjoni. This separatist Republic of Mirdita was backed by Yugoslavia, which then used the revolt as a pretext to invade Albania. Following a brief war, Yugoslav forces withdrew and Albanian troops led by Ahmet Zogu overran the Mirdita ...
Additionally, during the conflict between Albanians and Greeks in southern Albania during 1914–1915, where Greek forces took advantage of the political instability of Albania and attempted to annex as much Albanian territory into Greece as possible or succeed in creating the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus, at least 145 Albanian ...
This chapter of Albanian history was shrouded in controversy and conflict as the larger part of the self-proclaimed region had found itself controlled by the Balkan League states: Serbia, Montenegro and Greece from the time of the declaration until the period of recognition when Albania relinquished many of the lands originally included in the ...
Further massacres against Albanians occurred during the First World War and continued during the interwar period. According to Philip J. Cohen, the Serbian Army generated so much fear that some Albanian women killed their children rather than let them fall into the hands of Serbian soldiers. [16]
Albanian-Anjou Conflict (1358-1383) Principality of Albania: Angevin Kingdom of Naples. Navarrese Company. Kingdom of Navarre. Albanian victory. The Principality of Albania captures Durrës. End of the Angevin Kingdom of Albania. Albanian-Epirote War of 1359: Albanian Losha Family and Shpata Family: Despotate of Epirus: Victory
Northern Albania was allocated to the states of Serbia and Montenegro. [18] By October 31, 1918, French and Italian forces had expelled the Austro-Hungarian military from Albania. [18] Dalmatia was a strategic region during World War I that Italy and Serbia intended to seize from Austria
The Liberation of Serbia, Albania and Montenegro was a military action in the Balkans in the final weeks of World War I. Between 29 September and 11 November 1918, the Allied Army of the Orient liberated these three countries from occupation by the Central Powers .