Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Duk da kariya da kawancen Albania na tsawon lokaci tare da Italiya, a ranar 7 ga Afrilu 1939 sojojin Italiya suka mamaye Albania
, watanni biyar kafin fara yakin duniya na biyu. Resistancearfin makamai na Albania ya tabbatar da rashin tasiri a kan Italiyanci kuma, bayan ɗan gajeren kariya, an mamaye ƙasar. A ranar 9 ga Afrilu 1939 sarkin Albania, Zog I ya gudu zuwa Girka. Kodayake Albania ta kasance "a zahiri" Italiyanci mai kariya tun daga 1927, shugaban siyasa na Italiya, Benito Mussolini yana son ikon kai tsaye kan ƙasar don haɓaka martabarsa da Italiya, don ba da amsa ga haɗakar Jamus da Austria da mamayar Czechoslovakia, da kuma samun cikakken iko kan Albania don sanya manyan sojojin sojojin Italiya don ayyukan gaba da suka shafi Yugoslavia da Girka.