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| The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001. |
| 1939, April 7 | |
| END OF ALBANIAN INDEPENDENCE. The Italians, long irritated by Albanian resistance to their direction (prohibition of a Fascist Party, etc.), took advantage of the confusion produced by the German absorption of Czechoslovakia. They bombarded the coast towns and landed an army, which, after some resistance by the natives, overran the whole country. King Zog and his queen fled to Greece and then Turkey. On April 12 an Albanian constituent assembly voted personal union with Italy, and King Victor Emmanuel graciously accepted the crown. On June 3 Albania was given a constitution providing for a superior Fascist corporative council over which the king, however, retained extensive control. From April 1939 to Sept. 1943, Albania remained under Italian control. | 1 |
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| In order to win over the Albanians, Germany and Italy agreed to the incorporation of the Kosovo region of Yugoslavia into Albania. | 2 |
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| The Albanian Communist Party was formed clandestinely in Tirana under the leadership of Enver Hoxha. | 3 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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