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The revolutionary movements [11] in Italy made the presence of the last 20,000 soldiers of the Italian Army in Albania basically impossible. On August 2, 1920, the Albanian-Italian protocol was signed, upon which Italy retreated from Albania (maintaining only the island of Saseno). This put an end to Italian claims for Vlora and for a mandate ...
According to d'Espèrey, the Port of Durrës, if not destroyed, would have served the evacuation of the Bulgarian and German armies, involved in World War I. [54] When the war ended on 11 November 1918, Italy's army had occupied most of Albania; Serbia held much of the country's northern mountains; Greece occupied a sliver of land within ...
The collapse of the Principality of Albania, sometimes described as a civil war, [1] [2] was the period of violent political fragmentation within the country that began in early 1914. An independent, but deeply unstable Albanian state had been established in the aftermath of the Balkan Wars and was set to transition to a monarchy as a result of ...
See also: Albania under Italy, Albania under Nazi Germany, Albanian resistance during World War II: Zog fled with his wife, Queen Géraldine Apponyi de Nagyappony, and their infant son Leka, to Greece. April 8: Italian troops occupied Tirana. April 12: A constituent assembly summoned in Tirana by pro-Italian notables approved a personal union ...
Combatant 2 Result; Greco-Italian War (1940–1941) Kingdom of Italy. Italian Albania; Kingdom of Greece Air support: British Empire: Stalemate. Greek tactical victory, strategic stalemate. German intervention in 1941 with eventual Greek surrender. Invasion of Yugoslavia (1941) Nazi Germany. Kingdom of Italy. Italian Albania; Hungary Yugoslavia ...
At the outbreak of the war, Italy seized the chance to occupy the southern half of Albania, to avoid it being captured by the Austro-Hungarians. That success did not last long, as Albanian resistance during the subsequent Vlora War and post-war domestic problems forced Italy to pull out in 1920. [9]
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In 1914 Italy remained neutral and did not join its ally Germany in World War I. The Allies made promises and in 1915 Italy joined them. It was promised territorial spoils mainly from Austria and Turkey. [29] Prior to direct intervention in World War I, Italy occupied the Albanian port of Vlorë in December 1914. [3]