Zog refused to accept money in exchange for countenancing a full Italian takeover and colonization of Albania.

Because the Socialist People's Republic of Albania refused to participate in international treaties such as the AGR, it was conspicuously excluded from the route scheme, with E 65 and E 90 making noticeable detours to go around it.

In 1946, Albania was declared the People's Republic of Albania and, thereafter, it broke relations with the United States and refused to participate in the 1947 Marshall Plan.

When he refused, citing the neutrality of Albania in the Treaty of London, the remuneration that he had been receiving was cut off.

Albania, Austria and Hungary refused to apply sanctions ; Germany and the United States were not in the League.

When Bulgaria called upon Serbia to honor their prewar agreement over northern Macedonia, the Serbs, displeased at being forced by the Great Powers to evacuate Albania, adamantly refused to give up any more territory.

On 23 September 1913, the dissatisfaction of the Albanians population at finding themselves severed from Albania and under Serbian rule led to an uprising in western Macedonia of Albanian patriots who refused to accept the decision of the Ambassadors Conference on the Albanian borders.

However, Albania shunned the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe and was the only European country ( with the exception of Andorra ) that refused to take part in the Helsinki Conference of July 1975.

Intended for royalty, none were eventually sold to any royals, and Bugatti even refused to sell one to King Zog of Albania, claiming that " the man's table manners are beyond belief!

Local noblemen and commanders refused to surrender Manfred's domains in Albania to Michael II.

Other nations in the region that had been involved in related diplomacy refused to sign the document, including Italy, Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and the Soviet Union.

** Albania officially retreats from the Warsaw Pact upon the Soviet Union-led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, having already ceased to participate actively in Pact activity since 1962.

For differing reasons, Ethiopia, Nicaragua, and Albania ( who declared an Olympic-record fourth consecutive boycott ) did not participate in the Games.

Many professional volleyball teams from Albania and other Balkanic countries participate in a championship which lasts about two weeks.

Partizani didn ’ t participate in the 1946 championship but they went on a friendly match tour all over Albania, playing 9 matches and scoring 26 times while giving up 9 goals.

Serbia, on its side, was not satisfied with the independence of Albania, and sought a secret alliance with Greece.

Serbia attacked south towards Skopje and Monastir and then turned west to present-day Albania, reaching the Adriatic, while a second Army captured Kosovo and linked with the Montenegrin forces.

During this campaign, the Navy had awarded 69 BSMs, and the Army with 5, 000 troops in neighboring Albania ( considered part of the combat zone ) awarded none.

Stalin had respected his agreement with Winston Churchill to not intervene, but Yugoslavia and Albania defied the USSR's advice and sent supplies during the Greek Civil War to the partisan forces of the Communist Party of Greece, the ELAS ( National Popular Liberation Army ).

The Croatian Peasant Party boycotted the government of the Serbian People's Radical Party throughout the period, except for a brief interlude between 1925 and 1927, when external Italian expansionism was at hand with her allies, Albania, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria that threatened Yugoslavia as a whole.

Since 1990, the ACR and the Czech Armed Forces have contributed to numerous peacekeeping and humanitarian operations, including IFOR, SFOR, and EUFOR Althea in Bosnia, Desert Shield / Desert Storm, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Albania, Turkey, Pakistan and with the Coalition forces in Iraq.

The Italian invasion of Greece in October 1940 saw mounted cavalry used effectively by the Greek defenders along the mountainous frontier with Albania.

He took courses in philosophy at the Sorbonne, and he collaborated with L ' Humanité, writing articles on the situation in Albania under the pseudonym Lulo Malësori.

However, the Communist Party of Albania will not collaborate with any group of the National Front that continues to maintain contacts with the fascist invaders.

The Communist Party of Albania will unite with any group that used to have contacts with the fascist invaders, but has now terminated those contacts and is willing to now fight against the fascist invaders, provided those groups have not committed any crimes against the people.

A problem developed however when the Yugoslav Communists disagreed with the goal of a Greater Albania and asked the Communists in Albania to withdraw their agreement.

After the Albanian Communists repudiated the Greater Albania agreement, the Balli Kombëtar condemned the Communists, who in turn accused the Balli Kombëtar of siding with the Italians.

Hoxha with members of the Provisional Democratic Government of Albania.

In time, Albania began to feel that the treaty was heavily slanted towards Yugoslav interests, much like the Italian agreements with Albania under Zog that made the nation dependent upon Italy.

When Albania responded by making agreements with the Soviet Union to purchase a supply of agricultural machinery, Yugoslavia said that Albania could not enter into any agreements with other countries without Yugoslav approval.

Koçi Xoxe tried to stop Hoxha from improving relations with Bulgaria, reasoning that Albania would be more stable with one trading partner rather than with many.

* 1949 – The retreat of the Democratic Army of Greece in Albania after its defeat on Gramos mountain marks the end of the Greek Civil War.

The State University of Tirana was established in 1957, which was the first of its kind in Albania.

Tito's position on Albania was that it was too weak to stand on its own and that it would do better as a part of Yugoslavia.

Under this policy, Albania would develop its agricultural output in order to supply the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations while these nations would be developing specific resource outputs of their own, which would in theory strengthen the Warsaw Pact by greatly reducing the lack of certain resources that many of the nations faced.

In western Macedonia however, the lack of coordination between the Greek and Serbian HQs cost the Greeks a setback in the Battle of Vevi on, when the Greek 5th Infantry Division crossed its way with the VI Ottoman Corps ( a part of the Vardar Army consisting of the 16th, 17th and 18th Nizamiye divisions ), retreating to Albania following the battle of Prilep against the Serbs.

The fall of Ioannina allowed the Greek army to continue its advance into northern Epirus, the southern part of modern Albania, which it occupied.

After the collapse of the Axis powers, Albania became a communist state, the Socialist People's Republic of Albania, which for the most part of its duration was dominated by Enver Hoxha ( died 1985 ).

When the Christian church split in 1054 between the East and Rome, the region of southern Albania retained its ties to Constantinople while the north reverted to the jurisdiction of Rome.

After the formation of the Slav principality of Dioclia ( modern Montenegro ), the metropolitan see of Bar was created in 1089, and dioceses in northern Albania ( Shkodër, Ulcinj ) became its suffragans.

The border between Albania and its neighbors was delineated in 1913 following the decision by the Ambassadors at the Conference of London.

A bicameral parliament was also created, in which an elected lower chamber, the Chamber of Deputies ( with one deputy for every 12, 000 people in Albania and one for the Albanian community in the United States ), appointed members of its own ranks to an upper chamber, the Senate.

Noli criticized the League of Nations for failing to settle the threat facing Albania on its land borders.

In 1932 and 1933, Albania could not make the interest payments on its loans from the Society for the Economic Development of Albania.

Italy began penetration of Albania's economy in 1925, when Albania agreed to allow it to exploit its mineral resources.

The Allies never recognized an Albanian government in exile or King Zog, nor did they ever raise the question of Albania or its borders at any of the major wartime conferences.

China cut off aid in 1978 when Albania attacked its policies after the death of Chinese leader Mao Zedong.

For the first time, Albania was beginning to produce the major part of its own commodities domestically, which in some areas were able to compete in foreign markets.

Also during this period, because of the monopolised socialist economy, Albania was the only country in the world that imposed no imposts or taxes on its people whatsoever.

Albania played a role in the Sino-Soviet split far outweighing either its size or its importance in the communist world.

In December 1976, Albania adopted its second Stalinist constitution of the postwar era.

The Italian language is well known and studied in Albania, another non-EU member, due to its historical and geographical proximity with Italy.