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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''',<ref name="Italy, Greater Albania and Kosovo 1939-1943">{{citation | first1=Luca | last1=Micheletta | year= 2007 | title=Questioni storiche: Italy, Greater Albania and Kosovo 1939–1943| journal=Nuova Rivista Storica, 2/2013 | publisher=Universita degli studi di Roma La Sapienza | url=https://www.academia.edu/4093074| pages=521–542}}</ref><ref name="Historični seminar 10">{{citation | first1=Enriketa | last1=Papa Pandelejmoni | year= 2012 | title=Doing politics in Albania doing World War II: The case of Mustafa Merlika Kruja fascist collaboration| publisher=Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU| isbn = 978-9612544010| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HrizKUHOmU0C&pg=PA76 | pages=67–83}}</ref> and was a state
In the [[Treaty of London (1915)|Treaty of London]] during [[World War I]], the [[Triple Entente]] had promised territories in Albania to Italy as a reward for fighting against the [[Central Powers]].<ref name="Nigel Thomas 2001. Pp. 17">Nigel Thomas. ''Armies in the Balkans 1914–18''. Osprey Publishing, 2001. p. 17.</ref> [[Italian Fascism|Italian Fascists]] claimed that [[Albanians]] were ethnically linked to [[Italians]] through association with the prehistoric populations, and that the major influence exerted by the [[Roman Empire|Roman]] and [[Stato da Màr|Venetian]] empires over Albania gave Italy the right to possess it.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kane |first1=Robert B. |editor1-last=Hall |editor1-first=Richard C. |title=War in the Balkans: An Encyclopedic History from the Fall of the Ottoman Empire to the Breakup of Yugoslavia |date=2014 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=9798216163312 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BQXHEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT29 |chapter=Albania, Italian occupation of, 1939}}</ref> In addition, several hundred thousand ethnic Albanians had already been absorbed into southern Italy, which was used to justify annexation as a measure that would unite all Albanians into one state.{{sfn|Pearson|2007|p=389}} Italy supported [[Albanian irredentism]], directed against the predominantly Albanian-populated [[Kosovo]] in [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]], but also against [[Epirus (region)|Epirus]] in [[Kingdom of Greece|Greece]], particularly the border area of [[Chameria]], inhabited by the [[Cham Albanians|Cham Albanian]] minority.<ref name="Fischer 1999 70–73">{{Citation | last=Fischer | first=Bernd Jürgen | title=Albania at War, 1939–1945 | publisher= C. Hurst & Co. Publishers | year=1999 | isbn=978-1850655312 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P-MiG9ngCp8C | pages=70–73}}</ref>
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