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Thopian-Zetan War (1385) Principality of Albania Ottoman Empire: Principality of Zeta: Victory. Albanian - Ottoman forces defeat Zetan forces. Balsha II is killed in the Battle of Savra. Albanian-Epirote War of 1389–90 [4] Despotate of Arta (all four battles) Malakasi Tribe (second battle) Despotate of Epirus (all four battles) Thessaly ...
Start of the Cretan War: Conquest of Chania in Crete 1645 Conquest of Chisamo and Souda in Crete 1646 Siege of Candia (Heraklion) in Crete begins: 1648 Landings at England, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark 1655 1660 Final stage of the Siege of Candia, ends with capture of city. End of the Cretan war. 1666–1669 Sieges of Chyhyryn in Ukraine ...
In 1479, an Ottoman army, headed again by Mehmed II, besieged and captured Shkodër, [101] [103] reducing Venice's Albanian possessions to only Durazzo, Antivari, and Dulcigno. [101] Skanderbeg's son John Castriot II continued the resistance against the Ottomans, and tried to liberate territories from Ottoman rule in 1481–84. [ 104 ]
Second Balkan War: The Treaty of Bucharest ended the war and recognized an independent Albanian state ruled by a constitutional monarchy. 1914: March: William, Prince of Albania, of Wied was installed as head of the new Principality of Albania by the International Commission of Control. September: World War I: The new Albanian state collapsed ...
Among these, the battles fought in the 20th century (Turco-Italian War, Balkan Wars, and World War I ) as well as the sieges (like the sieges of Constantinople, Cairo, Belgrade, Bagdad, etc.) which most lists include as battles are not shown except in cases where the siege is followed by a battle (i.e. Vienna, Khotyn, Plevna). [1] [2]
World War II in Albania; Part of the European theatre and Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II: Clockwise from top left: Albanian refugees crossing the border to Yugoslavia in April 12, 1939, Ballists and Communists converse during Mukje Agreement 1943, Italian troops in Durrës, Communist Partisans fighting in Tirana 1944, Partisans march through Tirana after occupying it 28 ...
The Ottoman invasion of Albania in 1452 (Albanian: Fushata shqiptare e Mehmetit II) was a campaign by the newly acceded Ottoman sultan Mehmed II against Skanderbeg, the chief of the League of Lezhë. Shortly after the first siege of Krujë, Murad II died in Edirne, and was succeeded by his son Mehmed II. Mehmed ordered nearly annual invasions ...
Montenegrin–Ottoman War (1876–78) Ottoman Empire Montenegro: Defeat. Montenegro gains the towns of Nikšić, Kolašin, Spuž, Podgorica, Žabljak and Bar. Montenegro's territory increases from 4,405 km 2 to 9,475 km 2; De jure independence of Montenegro; Treaty of San Stefano; Treaty of Berlin; 1876–1877 First Serbian–Ottoman War ...