Albanian Kingdom

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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, and was a state controlled by Fascist Italy. The monarch was Italian King, Victor Emmanuel III, who was represented in Albania by Italian governors. During this time, Albania ceased to exist as an independent country and became an autonomous part of the Italian Empire. Officials intended to make Albania part of a Greater Italy by assimilating Albanians as Italians and colonizing Albania with Italian settlers from the Italian peninsula to transform it gradually into an Italian land.

1939 — 1943  WikimediaWikidata

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1939 — 1943 Albanian Kingdom
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eventwar1941World War II in Yugoslav Macedoniawar, Nazi Germany, Kingdom of Bulgaria, Kingdom of Italy, Yugoslav Partisans, Albanian Kingdom, Chetniks, Italian protectorate of AlbaniaWikidata
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