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The Albanian–Yugoslav border conflict, was a period of armed confrontations between the armed forces of Albania and Yugoslavia between the years 1948 and 1954. This period of heightened tensions between Albania and Yugoslavia stemmed from territorial disputes and ideological divisions between the Yugoslav Leader Josip Broz Tito and Albanian Leader Enver Hoxha. [12]
At the Party of Labour of Albania plenum in February and March 1948 leadership voted to merge the Albanian and Yugoslav economies and militaries while Koçi Xoxe proposed appealing to Belgrade to admit Albania as a seventh Yugoslav republic. [1] Relations turned into sharp antagonism after the 1948 Tito–Stalin split. Representations were ...
1948–1954 Albanian-Yugoslav border conflict (1948-1954) 1998 April 23, 1998, Albanian–Yugoslav border ambush; July 18, 1998, Albanian–Yugoslav border clashes; Battle of Morina; Opljaz clashes; Operation in Gjeravica; Operation Fenix; December 3, 1998, Albanian–Yugoslav border clash; December 14, 1998, Albanian–Yugoslav border ambush; 1999
After the expulsion of the Yugoslavs from Albania, Enver Hoxha began closing the borders between Yugoslavia and Albania. [8] He then initiated a campaign to hunt down and eliminate Yugoslav factions that remained in Albania. This purge continued beyond 1948, with Hoxha also targeting pro-Yugoslav sympathizers, which lasted until 1954. [9]
Yugoslavia (/ ˌ j uː ɡ oʊ ˈ s l ɑː v i ə /; lit. ' Land of the South Slavs ') [a] was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992. It came into existence following World War I, [b] under the name of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from the merger of the Kingdom of Serbia with the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, and constituted the ...
Trouble between Yugoslavia and Albania began when Albanians began to complain that Yugoslavia was paying too little for Albania's natural resources. [citation needed] Afterward, relations between Yugoslavia and Albania worsened. From 1948 onward, the Soviet Union backed Albania in opposition to Yugoslavia.
A small proportion of the previous colonist population came back to Kosovo and repossessed land, with a greater part of their number (4,000 families) later leaving for other areas of Yugoslavia. [105] From 1945 to 1948, the Yugoslav government opened the border to Albania with an estimated 25,000 Albanians crossing over and settling in Kosovo.
The first country to experience this approach was Albania, where leader Enver Hoxha immediately changed course from favoring Yugoslavia to opposing it. [87] In Poland , leader Władysław Gomułka , who had previously made pro-Yugoslav statements, was deposed as party secretary-general in early September 1948 and subsequently jailed. [ 87 ]