| Albania during the Balkan Wars | ||||||||
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| Belligerents | ||||||||
 Austro-Hungarian Empire |
 Ottoman Empire | |||||||
| Commanders and leaders | ||||||||
 Ismail Qemali Hasan Prishtina  Isa Boletini Idriz Seferi Azem Galica Çerçiz Topulli |
 Peter I  Nicholas I  George I Božidar Janković |
Mehmed V | ||||||
| Strength | ||||||||
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As many as 63,000[1] | Over 100,000 soldiers | Over 50,000 soldiers | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | ||||||||
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up to 100,000 killed or died inside of Albania and over 120,000 killed in total[2][3][4][5] 60,000–300,000 expelled (by 1914)[6] | ||||||||
| History of Albania |
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Independent Albania was proclaimed on 28 November 1912. This chapter of Albanian history was shrouded in controversy and conflict as the larger part of the self-proclaimed region had found itself controlled by the Balkan League states: Serbia, Montenegro and Greece from the time of the declaration until the period of recognition when Albania relinquished many of the lands originally included in the declared state. Since the proclamation of the state in November 1912, the Provisional Government of Albania asserted its control over a small part of central Albania including the important cities of Vlorë and Berat.
- ^ Hall 2002, pp. 46–47.
- ^ Geshov, Ivan Evstratiev (1919). La genèse de la guerre mondiale: la débâcle de l'alliance balkanique (in French) (as for example that of the Serbian deputy Triša Kaclerovićh, who, in an article published in 1917 by the International Bulletin, affirms that in 1912-1913 120,000 Albanians were massacred by the Serbian army ed.). P. Haupt. p. 64. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
- ^ Rifati, Fitim (2021). "Kryengritjet shqiptare në Kosovë si alternativë çlirimi nga sundimi serbo-malazez (1913-1914)" (PDF). Journal of Balkan Studies. 1: 84. doi:10.51331/A004.
According to Serbian Social Democrat politician Kosta Novakovic, from October 1912 to the end of 1913, the Serbo-Montenegrin regime exterminated more than 120,000 Albanians of all ages, and forcibly expelled more than 50,000 Albanians to the Ottoman Empire and Albania.
- ^ Trix, Frances (2017). Urban Muslim Migrants in Istanbul: Identity and Trauma Among Balkan Immigrants. Bloomsbury. p. 16. ISBN 978-1-78453-609-1.
not including an estimated 100,000 dead in Albania
- ^ Ke, Jing. "Change the Hostile Other into Ingroup Partner: On the Albanian-Serb Relations" (PDF). Kosovo Public Policy Center: 83.
- ^ Štěpánek, Václav (2010). Problem of colonization of Kosovo and Metohija in 1918–1945 (PDF) (in Czech). p. 88.