Albania has had a very long and troubled history with conquest independence and reconquest going in a long-lasting cycle for centuries
While the people have had a very long history the Mahr nation we see today is relatively new creation in today's episode
We'll be looking at the war that cemented Albania independence the V or a war before looking at this war itself
We must first look at the album's role during the First World War. This will be a brief overlook
but if you're interested in learning more
I have an episode about Albanian during the first world war that you can go to by clicking on the card here
the Young Turk revolution in 1908 was one of the many countless for an Albanian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire the
Changes to the Albanian section of the Empire including the raising taxes for conscription other issues
Ghazi Albanians to rise up in a revolt once in 1910 and again in 1912
The revolt of 1912 was caused by not only the failure during the Italian
Or but also by the Balkan war with Albania land and cities being occupied in all directions by Serbs Greeks
Montenegrins and Bulgarians this led to the Albanian Declaration of Independence on November the 28th of 1912
Independence wasn't recognized in any capacity
Until the Treaty of Bucharest in May the following year
however
Only about 40% of the ethnic Albanian land was incorporated into the state and most of the nation was occupied by Great Powers
forces each vying for control over the region a government was eventually formed under former minister for
Assad pasha the greek soon invade from the south was support of the British and Muslim leaders as well as political factions at post
Apostle albanian near korea these forces managed to pin pasha at the nation's capital terrazzo by late November of
1914
Pasha was rescued by italian warships and italy is self invaded bologna in late december
soon - holding the coastline from Valona to terrazzo
No, great
Power poses move as they wish Ilia to join their side when the patent of london was signed in april of 1915
The saw italian entry into the war ii-era gave the central Albania as a rectorate controlling the whole region south of the eora
While the Serbs eige pay the section and the Greeks of southern section in June of 1917
The Italians declared albion independence and outside posture for power while he was in exile in France
the French occupational zones have largely been left to their own deeded day administrative devices for months now and the ayyappa French
region joined this Albanian state by late November
All of Albania was under Anton control once the war was over
Albania was still left without a recognized government and many of the nation feared partition between the Italians Greeks and the newly formed nation of
Yugoslavia u.s
President Woodrow Wilson
Spoke up for the nation garni support that caused both the greeks and yugoslavia to drop their claims the italian still have large
Occupational and garrison forces in the region however, and no power really tried to force them to give up their claims
Italian prime minister francisco civ Remini t hope to keep Albania as protectorate as was stated in the Treaty of London in
1915 and attended to secure control over the whole of
Albania as the previous two regional powers had banned their claims this led to the start of the vieira war on June the 4th of
1920 a
Defense committee was established in viore itself the months prior
This committee was meant to organize the liberation war
Directly but largely focus on sabotage and supply related roles in the city
The Albanian government didn't involve a self directly with this
Conflict with her main focus being on keeping support for the Albanian state around the world, especially in the British
They attempted to gain guarantees from Yugoslavia and Greece that they wanted to invade in the advent of a full-out war with Italy
He was Slavia was quick to offer assurance of this but the Greek army was slowly in vain towards Corsa
which the French had recently departed from a
Number of militant bands as well as regular troops from the Taurani
Government soon occupied the whole course here region proclaim this merger with the Albanian State
the Greeks at this time halted the invasion as
The war in Asia Minor required their fall forcus and granted the guarantees that had been requested
The British gave vague promises of support a little came of it
They still hope to have an Albanian state under the control of the great powers as they want to use
Albania as a major source of oil for Britain and France
the italians rejected ultimatum sent to them to leave the aura and the defense committee was established an army raised under
Chasm kousouli the main nucleus of this army was a militia battalion that had been trained and equipped by the town to lair
Defected these men number some 400 of the raised armed of four thousand within the vicinity of the aura
The Albanian government didn't officially declare war against the Italians as they were heavily fear that doing so would risk the nation's
Credibility with other powers and give the Yugoslavians or Greeks a reason to invade instead the future King Zog
Who is the Minister of Interior organized 4000 Albanian irregular stew ate the Defense Committee with the goal of attacking?
Italian outline positions 10 over small Garrison's capturing arms
Which was fairly lacking and caused disruption back at home all total
The Albanians had around 20,000 men under the overall command of I'm at the pink ax the Italians
Meanwhile had around 15,000 men within the city and around another
5,000 in the out of region under the overall command to sent to Mina Puccini there further augmented by
240 howitzers of all sizes 5 aircraft and enabled attachment numbering a dozen warships On
June the 5th the Albanians attacked Italian positions all around the area and within the day most of the Garrison's had been taken
but the positions at Kota Schumann in Liguria
Lasted throughout the night with Fabiana being the last to hold even with 5 days of heavy fighting
were the full of these positions the whole region except for viola and cami Anna had been liberated a
full-on assault was launched against Viura in combination with an armed uprising in the city while this attack failed the
implications of this attack proved to be a breaking point back in Italy
Unrest increased Bari and ancona eventually results in demonstrations, and they were finally put down
they did prevent any more reinforces from reaching fiora and massive protests further engulfed the major cities the
Italians launched a counter-attack on the 18th, but a filled with heavy losses
plummeting army morale and lead to the collapse of Tepe
on the 20th the new government under give a yawn and glee t
Gave o cleans the whole of Albania outside of your itself and opened up negotiations with the tyranny government a followed occurred in mid-july
Where Albanian forces once again lost major assault against fiora reaching the outskirts of the city?
but suffering nearly
3,000 casualties a
Peace treaty between Italy and Albania was reached on August. The second saying that Italy will give up all claims to Albanian land
I'll say the island as asano which they had under occupation till
1943 and recognized Albanian independence based along in the 1913 borders
This treaty proved critical as it said the present for a condition by the rest of the Western powers at the Paris Peace Conference
I hope you enjoyed the brief video into one of the more obscure wars during the interwar period
again, if you'd like to learn a little bit more about albania during the First World War click here for the video I did about
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