Albania: Apr 12 2010

By al-Din on April 13, 2010 8:36 PM

Historiography of 500 years of Ottoman rule (pod igoto) in the volatile Balkans (a Turkish word for mountains) wrt Albania:

1354 - Ottoman Turks establish themselves on European soil at Gallipoli

1371 - Ottomans defeat the Serbs on the River Maritsa

1389 - Turks defeat the Serbian Tsar Lazar, head of a Balkan coalition at Kosovo. Serbia becomes a vassal state of Ottoman Empire

1393 - Bulgrian kingdom comes under Ottoman rule

1453 - Turks capture Constantinople

1463 - Slavic kingdom of Bosnia falls to the Turks

1468 - Albania falls to the Ottomans

1500-1566 - the Ottoman Empire attains its height; almost the entire Balkan peninsula is now under its domain

1683 - Turks march on Vienna and are routed

1684-99 - Europen powers defeat the Turks in the War of the Holy League. The Ottomans lose many of their Balkan holdings

1774 - Russia defeats the Turks

1799 - Montenegro succeeds in gaining Turkish recognition of its independence

1804-1813 - Serbs unsuccessfully revolt against the Turks

1829 - Russia defeats Turkey again

1856 - the European powers and Turkey defeat Russia in the Crimean War

1875-78 - insurrection against the Turks throughout the Balkans and with the help of Russia defeat the Turks. Serbia and Romania gain independence, Bulgarians wins autonomy. Austria-Hungary is awarded Bosnia and Herzegovina

1912-1913 - First Balkan War. The Balkan League - Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece and Montenegro, declares war on Turkey and further reduces its European territory.
Albanians revolt against the Turks and proclaim independence.

1914 - Archduke Franz-Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia, an Austrian province at that time.
Start of WWI

1918 - the United Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and the Slovenes, later called Yugoslavia is formally proclaimed

1928 - Ahmed Bey Zogu, from Premier becomes King Zog I of Albania

1939 - Mussolini Italy occupies Albania. King Zog is forced into exile

1939-44 - WW2. Bulgaria and Romania join the Axis power.

1944-46 - Romania and Bulgaria are occupied by Soviet troops. Communist-dominated governments in Yugoslavia and Albania are recognized by the West.

1948 - Albania breaks from Yugoslavia tutelege and becomes Russia's satellite

1961 - Albania breaks with the Soviets

{Edmund Stillman et al (eds). 1966. The Balkans. Life World Library, Time-Life International, Nederland}