Back الغزو الإيطالي لألبانيا Arabic İtaliyanın Albaniyaya hücumu Azerbaijani رومانین آلبانیا هوجومو AZB Італьянскае ўварванне ў Албанію Byelorussian Италианска инвазия в Албания Bulgarian Invasió italiana d'Albània Catalan Italská invaze do Albánie Czech Italienische Besetzung Albaniens German Ιταλική εισβολή στην Αλβανία Greek Invasión italiana de Albania Spanish
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| Italian invasion of Albania | |||||||||
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| Part of the interwar period | |||||||||
 Italian forces in Albania. | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Italy |
 Albania | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Benito Mussolini Alfredo Guzzoni Giovanni Messe |
Zog I Xhemal Aranitasi Abaz Kupi Mujo Ulqinaku † | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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40,000 soldiers[1] 400 aircraft[2] 2 battleships 3 heavy cruisers 3 light cruisers 9 destroyers 14 torpedo boats 1 minelayer 10 auxiliary ships 9 transport ships |
8,000 soldiers[3] 5 aircraft 3 torpedo boats | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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Possibly 700 dead (according to Fischer)[4] 12–25 dead (Italian claim)[4][5] 97 wounded[5] |
Likely more than 700 dead (according to Fischer)[6] 160 dead and several hundreds wounded (according to Pearson)[5] 5 aircraft 3 torpedo boats | ||||||||
| Events leading to World War II |
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The Italian invasion of Albania was a brief military campaign which was launched by the Kingdom of Italy against the Albanian Kingdom in 1939. The conflict was a result of the imperialistic policies of the Italian prime minister and dictator Benito Mussolini. Albania was rapidly overrun, its ruler King Zog I went into exile in neighboring Greece, and the country was made a part of the Italian Empire as a protectorate in personal union with the Italian Crown.
- ^ "HALL OF THE ANTI-FACHIST NATIONAL LIBERATION WAR – Muzeu Historik Kombëtar" (in Albanian). Retrieved 2022-12-24.
- ^ Fischer 1999 (Purdue ed.), p. 21.
- ^ Fischer 1999 (Purdue ed.), p. 22.
- ^ a b Fischer 1999, p. 22:Reports on the number of casualties differed rather significantly. The townspeople of Durrës maintained that the Italians lost four hundred. Although Italian propaganda claimed that Italy only lost twelve men in the entire invasion, it is possible that approximately two hundred Italians were killed in Durrës alone and as many as seven hundred Italians may have been killed in total.
- ^ a b c Pearson 2004, p. 445.
- ^ Fischer, Bernd J. (1999a). Albania at war, 1939-1945. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press. p. 22. ISBN 9781557531414.
Albanian casualties may have been higher.
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