BETROTHAL OF KING ZOG
-Presa Asan.
Linking U^Iy And Albania NAME NOT DimCED
(By Telesraob-
— CopyriKht.)
- EOME, April 24. it is reported that the hetrothal will shortly he announced of King Zog of Albania (Ahmed Bey Zogu) to a lady of the Italian aristoeracy. Albania, hitherto a Turkish provinee, be'came an autouomous State in 1913 as a result of the first Balkan War. Prince William of Wied, called the mpret, beeame its first raler, hut jn 1914 h® left the country, In 1917 Italy tqpk Albania under her protection. Agstria, retgliated by aunouncing her protectorate qf the country.
Fighting took place, but the Austrians gradually withdrew into MonOenegro, and all Albania was occupied by Italians. Jn 1919 the Italian rule was ehallenged by an armed mqvejnent of the followers of .Dssad Pasha aimigg 9-% complete indepegdenee, and an independent Government was set up at Tirana. A new constitution was prpclaimed in 1925 by which Albania boscarne a republic and Ahmed, Bey Zogu, hereditary chief of the Mari clan, beeame its first President. In 1928 Albania was proclaimed a kingdom with Ahmed Bey Zogu as king.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HBHETR19370426.2.65
Bibliographic details
Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 84, 26 April 1937, Page 7
Word Count
185BETROTHAL OF KING ZOG Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 84, 26 April 1937, Page 7
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in