Starting in 1928, but especially during the Great Depression, the government of King Zog, which brought law and order to the country, began to cede Albania's sovereignty to Italy Despite some insignificant resistance, especially at Durrës, Italy invaded Albania on 7...

Albania had long had considerable strategic importance for Italy Italian naval strategists eyed the port of Vlorë and the island of Sazan at the entrance to the Bay of Vlorë with considerable interest, as it would give Italy control of the entrance to the Adriatic...

On 7 April Mussolini's troops invaded Albania The operation was led by General Alfredo Guzzoni. The invasion force was divided into three groups, which were to land successively. The most important was the first group, which was divided in four columns, each assigned...

After the surrender of the Italian Army in September 1943, Albania was occupied by the Germans With the collapse of the Mussolini government in line with the Allied invasion of Italy, Germany occupied Albania in September 1943, dropping paratroopers into Tirana before...

The National Liberation War of the Albanian people started with the Italian invasion in Albanian on 7 April 1939 and ended on 28 November 1944 During the antifascist national liberation war, the Albanian people fought against Italy and Germany, which occupied the...

In October 1941, the small Albanian communist groups established in Tirana an Albanian Communist Party of 130 members under the leadership of Hoxha and an eleven-man Central Committee The Albanian communists supported the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact, and did not...