The Parachute Company was attached to the Royal Marine Commando and were involved in fighting in Albania, Italy and Greece.

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

In 1946, Albania was declared the People's Republic of Albania.

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.

The latest population census was conducted in Albania in April 2001.

* 2005 – In Durrës, Albania was founded Aleksander Moisiu University.

Enver Hoxha (; 16 October 190811 April 1985 ) was the Communist leader of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985, as the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania.

He was also chairman of the Democratic Front of Albania and commander-in-chief of the armed forces from 1944 until his death.

Hoxha was born in Gjirokastër, a city in southern Albania ( then under the Ottoman Empire ) that has been home to many prominent families.

On 7 April 1939, Albania was invaded by fascist Italy.

On 8 November 1941, the Communist Party of Albania ( later renamed the Albanian Party of Labour in 1948 ) was founded.

From 8 April to 11 April 1942, the First Consultative Meeting of Activists of the Communist Party of Albania was held in Tirana.

In July 1942, a " Call to the Albanian Peasantry " was written by Enver Hoxha and issued in the name of the Communist Party of Albania.

The call was issued to enlist support in Albania for the war against the Italian fascist invaders.

During the war, the Soviet Union's role was negligible, making Albania the only nation occupied during World War II whose independence was not determined by a great power.

In August 1943, a secret meeting was held in the town of Mukje between the anti-communist Balli Kombëtar ( National Front ) and the Communist Party of Albania.

" King Zog was prohibited from visiting Albania ever again, which further increased the Communists ' control.

On 22 October, the Committee became the Democratic Government of Albania after a meeting in Berat and Hoxha was chosen as interim Prime Minister.

On 11 January 1946, Zog was officially deposed, and Albania was proclaimed the People's Republic of Albania ( renamed the People's Socialist Republic of Albania in 1976 ).

Therefore, the complete privatization of land and residencies, as well as of all small and medium state enterprises, was accomplished over the period ’ 92 -’ 96 ; prices and exchange rates were fully liberalized, and Albania changed from a country of a three figure inflation rate and economic growth regression of − 20 % into a country with a one-figure inflation rate and with an average economic growth rate of 9 % in ’ 92 and, in ’ 93 – ’ 96, 75 % of GDP was generated from the private sector.

The countries located fully in the peninsula are the following: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo *, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, and Montenegro.

In the December 1945 Albanian election, the only effective ballot choices were those of the communist Democratic Front ( Albania ), led by Enver Hoxha.

After disagreements between Yugoslavian leader Josip Broz Tito and the Soviet Union regarding Greece and the People's Republic of Albania, a Tito-Stalin split occurred, followed by Yugoslavia being expelled from the Cominform in June 1948 and a brief failed Soviet putsch in Belgrade.

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

The earliest event recorded in the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba in Constantine's reign is an attack by Vikings and the plundering of Dunkeld " and all Albania " in his third year.

This is the first use of the word Albania, the Latin form of the Old Irish Alba, in the Chronicle which until then describes the lands ruled by the descendants of Cináed as Pictavia.

Guerrilla units entered Albania in 1950 and 1952, but they were killed or captured by Albanian security forces.

Hoxha alleged that Tito had made it his goal to get Albania into Yugoslavia, firstly by creating the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Aid in 1946.

Albanian economists H. Banja and V. Toçi stated that the relationship between Albania and Yugoslavia during this period was exploitative and that it constituted attempts by Yugoslavia to make the Albanian economy an " appendage " to the Yugoslav economy.

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.

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.

Hoxha stated that this was yet another of many attempts to overthrow the leadership of Albania which had been organized by Yugoslavia.

Relations with China improved, as evidenced by Chinese aid to Albania being 4. 2 % in 1955 before the visit, and rising to 21. 6 % in 1957.

In the 1920s, Fascist Italy pursued an aggressive foreign policy that included an attack on the Greek island of Corfu, aims to expand Italian territory in the Balkans, plans to wage war against Turkey and Yugoslavia, attempts to bring Yugoslavia into civil war by supporting Croat and Macedonian separatists to legitimize Italian intervention, and making Albania a de facto protectorate of Italy, which was achieved through diplomatic means by 1927.

* 1914 – The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus is proclaimed in Gjirokastër, by the Greeks living in southern Albania.

Gregory was martyred by a fanatical mob, while preaching in Albania.

Italian troops crossed the border on 28 October 1940, beginning the Greco-Italian War, but were stopped by determined Greek defence, and ultimately driven back into Albania.

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 Roman Empire was divided into eastern and western halves in AD 395, Illyria east of the Drinus River ( Drina between Bosnia and Serbia ), including the lands that now form Albania, were administered by the Eastern Empire but were ecclesiastically dependent on Rome.

The new administrative system of the themes, or military provinces created by the Byzantine Empire, contributed to the eventual rise of feudalism in Albania, as peasant soldiers who served military lords became serfs on their landed estates.

The loyalties and alliances created and nurtured by Skanderbeg faltered and fell apart and the Ottomans reconquered the territory of Albania in 1478.

Perhaps the most famous Janissaries were George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, son of a despot in northern Albania who later defected and led a 20 &# 8209 ; year Albanian revolt against the Ottomans, and Sokollu Mehmed Paşa, a Serbian peasant from Bosnia who later became a grand vizier, served three sultans, and was de facto ruler of the Ottoman Empire for more than 14 years.

In May 1912 the Albanians succeeded in taking Skopje and continued towards Monastir, forcing the Ottomans to recognize the autonomy of Albania in June 1912.

No sooner had he regained Hungary than he received tempting offers from Pope Eugene IV, represented by the Legate Julian Cesarini, from Đurađ Branković, despot of Serbia, and George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, prince of Albania, to resume the war and realize his ideal of driving the Ottomans from Europe.

The Ottomans erected their garrisons throughout southern Albania by 1415 and established formal jurisdiction over most of Albania by 1431.

During the First Balkan War, the Balkan League ( Serbia, Montenegro, Greece and Bulgaria ) succeeded in driving out the Ottoman Empire from its European provinces ( Albania, Macedonia, Sandžak and Thrace ), leaving the Ottomans with only the Çatalca and Gallipoli peninsulas.

Loyalties wavered, and splintered, betrayals were common, and Albania fell into complete submission to the Ottomans by the end of the 15th century.

The bottom part bears a copper strip adorned with a monogram separated by rosettes * IN * PE * RA * TO * RE BT *, which means: Jhezus Nazarenus * Principi Emathie * Regi Albaniae * Terrori Osmanorum * Regi Epirotarum * Benedictat Te ( Jesus Nazarene Blesses Thee, Prince of Mat, King of Albania, Terror of the Ottomans, King of Epirus ).

This proved too little and too late to salvage the Ottoman toehold in southeast Europe ; the Ottomans lost Albania, Macedonia and western Thrace.

The war between Serbia and Hungary and the Ottoman Empire had come to a standstill in 1441 when the Holy Roman Empire, Poland, Albania, and the Jandarid and Karamanid emirates ( in violation of the peace treaty ) intervened against the Ottomans.

The Ottomans took much of Albania in the 1385 Battle of Savra.

The 1444 League of Lezhë briefly restored one part of Albania, until Ottomans captured complete territory of Albania after capture of Shkoder in 1479 and Durres in 1501.

After the fall of Negroponte in 1470, Cadamosto was placed in charge of devising a plan for the defense of Albania against the Ottomans.

Since a crusade was anticipated against the Ottomans, Venice did not want to seem pro-Ottoman and eased their stance towards Albania.

Skanderbeg then sent George Pjetri to Rome as an ambassador to give the Pope the impression that Albania had been decisively conquered and that aid was necessary to force the Ottomans out of Albania.

It was originally settled by both Greek and Albanian refugees who were hunted by the Ottomans in Thesprotia, Greece and Laberia, Albania.

After the establishment of Albania as part of the Ottoman Empire, the Malsia people sided with the Montenegrins for many centuries to come, fighting the Ottomans.

The League was divided into two main fractions, that of those who wanted Albania to remain under the Ottoman Empire, like Abdul Frasheri and Ali Pasha of Gucia, and those who sought total independence from both the Ottomans and the Slavs, like Marash Lula from the Dukagjini Region.

In the Selca Village of Kelmendi, the Heads of Malcia along with the intellectuals and social and political activists from the city of Shkodër drafted a memorandum through which they requested the independence of Albania from the Ottomans.

In doing so, Moisi Golemi had hoped to save his people, and his country of Albania, from the utter devastation and the disastrous burden of the war against the Ottomans.

Amesas Kastriota had appropriated the vast estates of the De Stresses and had birth claims over the estates of the Kastriotas ; Ballaban Badera saw the opportunity and organized the coronation of Amesas Kastiota as a Moslem King of Albania, under vassalage of the Ottomans.