Kammala jumlar da ke gaba: Firayim Ministan Albania da Shugaba Ahmet Zogu, wanda a shekarar 1928, ya ayyana kansa Sarkin Albania, ya kasa samar da ingantacciyar ƙasa. Al'ummar Albaniya ta rarrabu sosai ta hanyar addini da yare, tare da takaddamar kan iyaka da Girka da tattalin arziƙin karkara mara ci gaba. A shekara ta 1939, Italiya
ya mamaye kuma ya haɗu da Albania a matsayin masarauta daban a cikin haɗin kai tare da kambin Italiya. Italiya ta daɗe tana da kyakkyawar alaƙa da shugabancin Albania kuma ta ɗauke shi da ƙarfi a cikin tasirin ta. Mussolini yana son samun nasara mai ban mamaki a kan ƙaramin maƙwabta don daidaitawa da haɗin Jamus na Austria da Czechoslovakia. Sarkin Italiya Victor Emmanuel III ya ɗauki kambin Albania, kuma an kafa gwamnatin fascist a ƙarƙashin Shefqet Vërlaci.