The Archive · 1939

King Zor's Career

London, Apr. 7.

ox, King of Albania, the Balkan which now lakes frst place in world "headlines. Is the only Mohammedan King in Europe He born in Mat}n un: Octolver fe, 180 Educated in' the Turkish Oficers?

hoo, he succeeded only. to the agement of his estates, whic carried with i the trot of thirty tribes. owing feud allegiance to Zog, their chieftain, A man with a keen sense of rationalism." and great person himsett and when, In bition, King Zoe soon interested

Albania joined in the Balkan King Zoxe joined in the Ale Army which fought the Turks, and which finally we Albania. her independence, Albania being declared an Me dependent principality and Prines Wied Ite frst soverelin Zog. hr his Tot _boeame ne of his During the el with the opposition, and hetpedt to organize w rising ayainst the then King. Turning to the Central Powers, Zay, joined the Austrian Army and command of a battalion wt the Ttalian Following the War. when Malians, yugoslavs and Nationalist Albania were fighting for possession of the litle country, Zog returned" from Vienna and organized strong Albanian resistance to the foreign armies on his country's soil, In 102 he was forced to flee. From Be nized a new revolt, won and invaded Albania preaching the axeed regeneration.

Durazzo, now completely reduced ian' bombardments, is the one cient Roman town of Dyrrachium, and was a thriving port in Roman times. successively the Goths, the Normans, the Kings of Sicily, and the Turks.

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