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  2. Italian invasion of Albania - Wikipedia

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    The Italian invasion of Albania was a brief military campaign which was launched by Italy ... Albania was important to the nationalistic aims of Italian Fascists, ...

  3. Kingdom of Albania in personal union with Italy (1939–1943)

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    The Kingdom of Albania was in personal union with the Kingdom of Italy following the Italian invasion of Albania in 1939 and until the German occupation in September 1943. It is also referred to as Italian Albania or Greater Albania, [3] [4] and was a state controlled by Fascist Italy.

  4. World War II in Albania - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Italian colonists in Albania - Wikipedia

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    The puppet Albanian Fascist Party became the ruling party of the country and the local fascists, like Prime Minister Shefqet Vërlaci, allowed Italian citizens to settle in Albania and to own land so that they could gradually transform it into Italian soil.

  6. Albanian Fascist Party - Wikipedia

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    The Albanian Fascist Party (Albanian: Partia Fashiste Shqiptare, or PFSh) was a fascist organisation active during World War II which held nominal power in Albania from 1939, when the country was invaded by Italy, until 1943, when Italy capitulated to the Allies.

  7. Battle of Durrës (1939) - Wikipedia

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    The Italian Armed Forces committed 22,000 troops under General Alfredo Guzzoni to the invasion of Albania. [1] The main force, tasked with capturing the capital Tirana, was placed under the command of General Alfredo Guzzoni and was to be landed at Durrës; it consisted of two battalions of the 3rd Regiment "Granatieri di Sardegna", one battalion of the 47th Infantry Regiment "Ferrara", five ...

  8. Italian protectorate over Albania - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  9. Battle of Reç - Wikipedia

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    As the Albanian partisans retook many of the regions that were under Italian occupation, the situation in Albania got better and better. To clear the Mbishkodra area, where the influence of the National Liberation Movement was increasing and the partisan formations were growing day by day, they prepared the Italian fascists before a military operation.