Shkodra during the Turmoil of the Balkan War and Serbian-Montenegrin Invasion

Abstract

The study called "Shkodra’s turmoil in the Balkan War and the Serbo Montenegrin invasion", sheds light on a period that includes events and important listed facts, seen at national level as well as at local level. This was the reason Shkodra, the largest and the most populated city of Albania, from October 1912 to April 1913 spent the most difficult days in its history, also among the most heroic, especially for the extraordinary resistance in fight for protection from neighboring chauvinists of its territorial integrity. The purpose of the study is a historical overview on the political and social situation, but also wider. It is based mainly on documents from Austro-Hungarian Consulate in Shkodra of the years 1912-1914, as well as in relations from Jesuit priests, who day after day marked events and facts. This study supports the idea that Shkodra, as an integral part of the newly created Albanian state, is primarily a result of the titanic efforts of all Shkodrane without discrimination, which indicated that they were formed as a spiritual family. The world witnessed the common willingness for a civilian national dignity, and desire of living together for the future. On the other hand, it reveals the enormous importance and persistent strong support shown from Austria, in these moments of a severe national trauma. Keywords: Hasan Riza Pasha, The struggle for Scutari, Balcan powers, National movement, Montenegrin occupation, Ottoman commands.Abstract here please not more than 150-200 words