The Extent of Italy's Military Control in Northern Albania and the Crystallization of Contradictions with France (1917-1918)

Abstract

The paper reflects the moment with the interests of the history of the first world war in the Albanian territory, it is about the military movement of Italy to the north of Albania, to put it under its administrative and political control. This moment intertwines and crystallizes at the same time the withdrawal of Serbia from Middle Albania and its control by Italy and the emergence of Esat Toptani, who seems to withdraw from his political activity at the request of French politics in Albania, to be reactivated by France at the Peace Conference which would take place a year later in Paris. France, on the other hand, was interested in Esati making political divorce with Italy so that he would be politically used by Ke D'Orseja (French Foreign Ministry). This political movement essentially had strategic implications through the resurrection of the Secret Trakatate of London, in the service of its own interests France.