Liberation of Albania

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Was the liberation of Albania by the Albanian resistance during World War II.

Chronology

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November 1944: The territories added to Albania by the Axis in in 1941 were reversed to Yugoslavia.

July 1943: By the summer of 1943, when the Italian effort collapsed, almost all of the mountainous interior of Albania was controlled by resistance units.

July 1944: Albanian partisans defeated the last Balli Kombëtar forces in southern Albania by mid-summer 1944.

November 1944: Following the successful advances of the Red Army in the Balkans and the offensives by the Albanian communist partisans of Enver Hoxha's Lëvizja Nacional-Çlirimtare, the Germans evacuated Albania by October 1944. The collaborationist government fell and was quickly replaced by the Democratic Government of Albania.

January 1946: The People's Republic of Albania was proclaimed.

August 1944: The National Liberation Movement entered central and northern Albania by the end of July.

November 1944: German resistance in Tirana ends.

December 1943: The Germans launched a series of offensives against the Partisans, who were primarily concentrated in Southern Albania and to a lesser extent in Central Albania. The first offensive, operation "505", started in early November 1943 to clear Partisan units from the Pezë region and remove the threat to the Durrës-Tirana road.

October 1944: The Democratic Government of Albania was established on 20 October 1944 by the National Liberation Movement, as the Albanian partisan resistance of 1940-1944 came to a close.

April 1944: By 1944 all prefectures of the National Liberation Movement, except Gjirokstra in the south, were in the hands of the Albanian Kingdom.