Draft:Serbian invasion of Albania (1912–1913)

Serbian Invasion of Albania
	Part of the First Balkan War
	; A map of the occupied territories in Albania
Date	8 October 1912 – 30 May 1913; (7 months, 3 weeks and 1 day);
Location	Kosovo, Scutari, Janina and Manastir vilayets (modern-day Albania)
Result	Serbian victory; Full results: Massacre of the Albanian population ; 60,000–300,000 Albanians expelled by 1914 ; Essad Pasha hands Shkodër over to Montenegro in return for support for the foundation of the Republic of Central Albania ; Treaty of London: Serbia annexes large parts Kosovo and Macedonia and continues to occupy parts of northern Albania until 1920 ; Albania gains Independence but loses half of its claimed territories gained after the Albanian revolt of 1912 ;
Territorial; changes	Formation of Drač County and other Serbian counties on Albanian–populated lands captured from the Ottomans
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire; Independent Albania; Albanian volunteers and irregulars	Balkan League; Kingdom of Serbia; Kingdom of Montenegro
Commanders and leaders
Mehmed V; Ismail Qemali; Hasan Prishtina; Isa Boletini; Idriz Seferi; Azem Galica; Çerçiz Topulli	King Peter I; King Nicholas I; Božidar Janković; Danilo Petrović; Radomir Vešović; Damjan Popović

References

^ Gawrych, George (2006). The Crescent and the Eagle: Ottoman rule, Islam and the Albanians, 1874–1913. IB Tauris. p. 202. ISBN 9781845112875. "When the First Balkan War broke out, a majority of Albanians, even habitual rebels such as Isa Boletin, rallied in defense of the din ve devlet ve vatan in order to preserve intact their Albanian lands. Lacking a national organization of their own, Albanians had no choice but to rely on Ottoman institutions, its army, and its government for protection from partition. Both failed them miserably in the face of four invading Balkan armies, and as a result foreign invasion and occupation severed that link between the Albanian Eagle and the Ottoman Crescent."
^ Kondis, Basil (1976). Greece and Albania, 1908–1914. Thessaloniki: Institute for Balkan Studies. p. 84. ISBN 9798840949085. The Albanian forces fought on the side of Turkey not because they desired a continuance of Turkish rule but because they believed that together with the Turks, they would be able to defend their territory and prevent the partition of "Greater Albania
^ Hall, Richard C. (4 January 2002). The Balkan Wars 1912-1913: Prelude to the First World War. Routledge. p. 85. ISBN 978-1-134-58363-8. Retrieved 19 April 2022. Ottoman regulars supported by Albanian irregulars continued in central and southern Albania even after the signing of the armistice in December 1912
^ Anagnostopoulos, Archimandrite Nikodemos (2017). Orthodoxy and Islam: Theology and Muslim–Christian Relations in Modern Greece and Turkey. Taylor & Francis. p. 75. ISBN 9781315297927.
^ Štěpánek, Václav (2010). Problem of colonization of Kosovo and Metohija in 1918–1945 (PDF) (in Czech). p. 88.
^ Erickson 2003, p. 213.

Sources

Erickson, Edward J. (2003). Defeat in Detail: The Ottoman Army in the Balkans, 1912–1913. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-275-97888-4.

[Gawrych202-1] Gawrych, George (2006). The Crescent and the Eagle: Ottoman rule, Islam and the Albanians, 1874–1913. IB Tauris. p. 202. ISBN 9781845112875. "When the First Balkan War broke out, a majority of Albanians, even habitual rebels such as Isa Boletin, rallied in defense of the din ve devlet ve vatan in order to preserve intact their Albanian lands. Lacking a national organization of their own, Albanians had no choice but to rely on Ottoman institutions, its army, and its government for protection from partition. Both failed them miserably in the face of four invading Balkan armies, and as a result foreign invasion and occupation severed that link between the Albanian Eagle and the Ottoman Crescent."

[2] Kondis, Basil (1976). Greece and Albania, 1908–1914. Thessaloniki: Institute for Balkan Studies. p. 84. ISBN 9798840949085. The Albanian forces fought on the side of Turkey not because they desired a continuance of Turkish rule but because they believed that together with the Turks, they would be able to defend their territory and prevent the partition of "Greater Albania

[3] Hall, Richard C. (4 January 2002). The Balkan Wars 1912-1913: Prelude to the First World War. Routledge. p. 85. ISBN 978-1-134-58363-8. Retrieved 19 April 2022. Ottoman regulars supported by Albanian irregulars continued in central and southern Albania even after the signing of the armistice in December 1912

[4] Anagnostopoulos, Archimandrite Nikodemos (2017). Orthodoxy and Islam: Theology and Muslim–Christian Relations in Modern Greece and Turkey. Taylor & Francis. p. 75. ISBN 9781315297927.

[5] Štěpánek, Václav (2010). Problem of colonization of Kosovo and Metohija in 1918–1945 (PDF) (in Czech). p. 88.

[FOOTNOTEErickson2003213-6] Erickson 2003, p. 213.

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