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October
1940: Italian forces invaded Greece
through
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Albania, but were
quickly thrown back.
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After Germany
defeated Greece and Yugoslavia in 1941
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Kosovo and
Çamëria [from Greece] were joined to Albania
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An ethnically
united Albanian state for the first time
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November
1944: Upon the German withdrawal,
Kosovo
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was
reincorporated into Yugoslavia and Çamëria into
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Greece
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After a
successful struggle against the fascists and two
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other resistance
groups—the National Front and the pro-
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Zog Legality
Party, the Albanian Communist Pary seized
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control of the
country in November, 1944
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