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The chaos involved various factions that asserted control as the country split along religious and ethnic lines; the outbreak of World War I that same year also saw various belligerent countries intervene and occupy the recognized territory of Albania. [1] [6] The country's fragmented situation would not be resolved until after the end of the war.
The Balkans theatre or Balkan campaign was a theatre of World War I fought between the Central Powers (Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany and the Ottoman Empire) and the Allies (Serbia, Montenegro, France, the United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, and later, Greece). The offensive began in 1914 with three failed Austro-Hungarian offensives into Serbia.
In World War I, Albania had been an independent state, having gained independence from the Ottoman Empire on 28 November 1912, during the First Balkan War. It was recognised by the Great Powers as the Principality of Albania, after the Ottoman Empire officially renounced all its rights in May 1913. [1]
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 .
Films about the Balkan War at europeanfilmgateway.eu; Clemmesen, M. H. Not Just a Prelude: The First Balkan War Crisis as the Catalyst of Final European War Preparations (2012) Anderson, D. S. The Apple of Discord: The Balkan League and the Military Topography of the First Balkan War Archived 20 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine
The war set the stage for the July crisis of 1914 and as a prelude to the First World War. [ 8 ] [ page needed ] By the early 20th century, Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro and Serbia had achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire, but large elements of their ethnic populations remained under Ottoman rule.
Six mois qui incendièrent le monde : Juillet-décembre 1914 [Six months that set the world on fire: July-December 1914] (in French). Paris: Tallandier. ISBN 979-10-210-0378-1. Schiavon, Max (2011). L'Autriche-Hongrie dans la Première Guerre mondiale : La fin d'un empire [Austria-Hungary in the First World War: The end of an empire]. Les ...
The causes of the Great War have generally been defined in diplomatic terms, but certain deep-seated issues in Austria-Hungary undoubtedly contributed to the beginnings of the First World War. [40] The Austro-Hungarian situation in the Balkans pre-1914 is a primary factor in its involvement in the war.