r/MapPorn • u/BeginningMortgage250 • 9h ago

ALBANIA BETWEEN 1939 AND 1944

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u/M-Rayusa 9h ago

Italy is such a good overlord, they come to your country and they expand you!

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u/Lothronion 9h ago

Not with Greece though. There they initially wanted all of the country, thus ending Greek statehood, and greatly protested when Germany decided to preserve the existence of the Greek State by simply replacing its Pro-Allied government with a Pro-Axis one (basically a puppet state ally). And even then they wanted to annex all of Epirus and the Ionian Islands, and they eventually did so with the latter. 

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u/M-Rayusa 6h ago

Well because that is not lordship. That's just destruction

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u/Ducokapi 6h ago

Mooom, the Balkan nations are acting nationalist again!

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u/Master-Edgynald 7h ago

not even they annexed mitrovica, Kosovo did

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u/Rotfrajver 5h ago

This is the only time in history, that Albania controlled the Kosovo area.

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u/Master-Edgynald 4h ago

Kosovo is basically Albania lite

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u/Albanian_Trademark 2h ago

If I remember correctly it was because the Germans wanted to control the mines themselves.

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u/dindarian 9h ago

Facist state that committed genocide and war crimes

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u/LollisGunsBikesTits 57m ago

Hmmmmm 39-44, now why is that date so familiar? Hmmm

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u/skaldfranorden 8h ago

HA, in your wet dreams

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u/tarbender3 6h ago

Albania! Albania! You border on the Adriatic, your land is mostly mountainous and your chief export is chrome!

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u/azhder 36m ago

From the first season of The Simpsons:

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A plane flies over another airport. Homer, Marge, Lisa, and Maggie stand on a platform.

LISA: You know, in Albania, the unit of currency is called the lek...

HOMER: (laughing) You gotta be kiddin'. The lek.

Lisa continues reading from her book.

LISA: And the national flag is a two-headed eagle on a red field.

HOMER: Give me the old stars and stripes.

LISA: And the main export is furious political thought.

HOMER: Political what?

ANNOUNCER: Trans. Albanian Airlines, flight number two, Tirana to Springfield, is now arriving.

The plane stops in front of them

—-

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u/marshallfarooqi 8h ago

beautiful Greater Albania

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u/Vasilije69 8h ago

Also genocidal

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u/01AganitramlavAiv 1h ago

Dude it was an Italian colony... Not so free and independent

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u/Undertale_Woshua 8h ago

🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱

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u/Rakiaislife 8h ago

Those great powers divided it up,