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Comment: WP:POVFORK bordering on WP:HOAX that reinterprets the part of the history of the Greek Civil War. See Greek Civil War#End of the war: 1949 and Operation Pyrsos. Toward the end of the war, Greek forces chased Greek communist insurgents into communist Albania, which involved itself by offering refuge and substantial help to the latter, but they ultimately lost the civil war. Albanian POV is that this was a provocation, an attack on Albanian sovereignty and an attempt to annex a part of Albania, and the revisionist agenda is to proclaim Albanian victory over Greece.See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Albanian–Greek Border War —Alalch E. 16:55, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
The Albanian-Greek Border War also known as the provocations of August 49[1] was a military conflict between the People's Socialist Republic of Albania and the Kingdom of Greece that took place during the Cold War-era.[2][3] As incidents increased on the Albanian-Greek border, the First Border War finally broke out on August 2, 1949 between the Albanian People's Army (UPSh) and the Greek National Army (GNA) which lasted until September 5.[4]
| Albanian–Greek Border War (1949) | |||||||||
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| Part of the Cold War and the Greek Civil War | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Albania |
 Kingdom of GreeceSupported by:  United States[5][6] United Kingdom[5] Yugoslavia[7] | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Enver Hoxha (First Secratary of the Party of Labour of Albania) Mehmet Shehu (Ministry of Internal Affairs) Beqir Balluku (Minister of People's Defence) |
Konstantinos Tsaldaris (Prime Minister of Kingdom of Greece)[8] General James Van Fleet[9] | ||||||||
| Units involved | |||||||||
 Albanian People's Army Air Force of the Albanian People's Army |
 Hellenic Army Hellenic Air ForceSupported by:  US Navy[9] | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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10,000 troops[10][11] 30,000 reservists[nb 1][11][10] |
70,000 troops[10][12] 50 aircraft[10] 80 tanks[10] 400 artillery[10] | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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29-100+ killed[11] 89 wounded[citation needed] |
350 killed[13] 500 wounded[14] 270 POW | ||||||||
- ^ Për popullin, me popullin (in French). Albania: botim i Ministrisë së Punëve të Brendshme të Republikës Popullore të Shqipërisë. 1973. p. 26.
Des décorations sont decernés aux soldats, auteurs de hauts faits pour pour la défense de la patrie lors des provocations monarcho-fascistes de 1949 (French) Decorations are awarded to soldiers, authors of high deeds for the defense of the fatherland during the monarcho-fascist provocations of 1949 (English)
- ^ Konferenca Kombëtare e Studimeve Shoqërore (in Albanian). Albania: Shtëpia Botuese "Naim Frashëri". 1970. p. 95.
- ^ B. Bare, Themi (1966). Provokacione dhe komplote kundër Republikës Popullore të Shqipërisë (in Albanian). Albania: Universiteti Shtetëror i Tiranës, Fakulteti Histori-Filologji. p. 94.
- ^ Zotaj, Bernard (2021). "August 1949: Provocation or military aggression?" (PDF). Central Publication of the Ministry of Defense. 16 (9): 9.
- ^ a b Konferenca Kombëtare e Studimeve Shoqërore 1970, p. 95.
- ^ Mara, Hekuran (1963). Periudha e kalimit dhe veçoritë e ndërtimit socialist në R.P.SH (in Albanian). University of California: Universiteti Shtetëror i Tiranës, Fakulteti i Ekonomisë. p. 55.
me provokacionet e vitit 1949, te organizuara kunder vendit tone nga imperializmi amerikano-englez dhe monarko fashistêt greke (Albanian) with the provocations of 1949, organized against our country from American-British imperialists and fascist monarchs greek (English)
- ^ Themi 1966, p. 94.
- ^ ""A Greek plane flying in the villages of Hoxhaj and Markat, was shot down by Albanian forces in the area of Finiq and the". Memorie.al. 2021-09-06. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
- ^ a b Third Blue Book on the Anglo-American Intervention on the Monarcho-fascist Regime on the People's Struggle for Liberty. Democratic Organisations of Greece. 1950. p. 39.
- ^ a b c d e f "Gusht 1949, Greqia sulmoi ushtarakisht Shqipërinë". fishmedia (in Albanian). 29 December 2017. Retrieved May 28, 2023.
- ^ a b c "Besnik Danaj: Kufitari nga Progonati që ra heroikisht në 2 gusht 1949". telegraf.al (in Albanian). August 5, 2019. Retrieved May 28, 2023.
- ^ "Kujtojmë Agresionin , 2 Gusht '49". 2 August 2022. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
- ^ Lalaj, Ana (2019). "The Implications of the Albanian State in the Civil Warn in Greece 1946-1949" (PDF). Studime Historike. 27: 215. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 May 2023.
- ^ "Gazeta Ushtria". Ministry of Defence (Albania). 2015.
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