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The Italian invasion of Albania was a brief military campaign which was launched by Italy against Albania in 1939. The conflict was a result of the imperialistic policies of the Italian prime minister and dictator Benito Mussolini .
Italian occupation of Albania after the Italian invasion of Albania in April 1939; Nazi–Soviet Union relations and Nazi–Soviet economic relations [1934–1941] (Russo-German plans to develop a partition of the Eastern Hemisphere, or at least Eastern Europe, since 1 September 1939 to 1941).
Map of Albania during World War II. In Albania, World War II began with its invasion by Italy in April 1939. Fascist Italy set up Albania as its protectorate or puppet state. The resistance was largely carried out by Communist groups against the Italian (until 1943) and then German occupation in Albania. At first independent, the Communist ...
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.
Reino de Albania; Invasión italiana de Albania; Usage on fi.wikipedia.org 1939; Albanian valtaus; Usage on fr.wikipedia.org Zog Ier; Invasion italienne de l'Albanie; Histoire de l'Albanie pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale; Usage on he.wikipedia.org הפלישה האיטלקית לאלבניה; Usage on id.wikipedia.org Angkatan Bersenjata Albania
Albanian map during WWII Albanian boy at the Albanian-Yugoslav border (1939) In 1937, Ciano, the Italian Foreign Minister and Mussolini's son-in-law, mediated with Mussolini to give a further 60 million gold francs to Albania. [11] He saw Albania as a gateway to the Balkans and wanted to expand his plans. This happened because:
The pacification of Libya (1923–32), the invasion of Ethiopia (1935–36), the invasion of Albania (1939), the invasion of France (1940), the invasion of Greece (1940–41) and the invasion of Yugoslavia (1941) were all undertaken in part to add to Italy's national space.
Albania had held strategic importance for Italy since the Renaissance, when the Republic of Venice controlled some areas of the Albanian coast (called Albania Veneta).In addition, southern Italy contained Albanian-speaking communities (Arbëreshë people), who had taken refuge there from the Ottoman invasion of Albania during the Skanderbeg era, and who were favorable to a possible union of ...