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Albania during the Balkan Wars. Part of Balkan Wars. Date. 8 October 1912 - 21 February 1914. Location. Kosovo vilayet, Scutari vilayet, Janina vilayet, Manastir vilayet. Result. Albanian Declaration of Independence. Formation of the Provisional Government of Albania and the Independent State of Albania.
Medieval Albania (968–1479) Ottoman Albania (1479–1912) Albanian Independence to the end of the First World War (1912–1918) Interwar Period (1918–1939) World War II and Cold War period (1939–1991) Post Cold War (1991–present) References. Citations. Bibliography.
Albanian soldiers during the Vlora war,1920. After World War I, Albania was still under the occupation of Serbian and Italian forces. It was a rebellion of the respective populations of Northern and Southern Albania that pushed back the Serbs and Italians behind the recognized borders of Albania.
Albanophobia, Greater Serbia, Islamophobia, Anti-Catholicism. 31 December 1912 New York Times headline. The massacres of Albanians in the Balkan Wars were perpetrated on several occasions by the Serbian and Montenegrin armies and paramilitaries during the conflicts that occurred in the region between 1912 and 1913.
Albania–Yugoslavia relations were historical foreign relations between Albania (both Kingdom of Albania 1928-1939 and the People's Socialist Republic of Albania 1946–1992) and now broken up Yugoslavia ( Kingdom of Yugoslavia 1918-1941 and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1945–1992). With occasional periods of friendly relations or ...
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 Turkey officially renounced all its rights in May 1913. [1]
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.
The Holocaust in Albania consisted of crimes committed against Jews in Albania while Albania was under Italian and German occupation during World War II. Throughout the war, nearly 2,000 Jews sought refuge in Albania-proper. Most of these Jewish refugees were treated well by the local population, despite the fact that Albania-proper was ...