ALBANIA’S KING
AMERICAN RECOGNITION SCANDERBEG CONGRATULATED (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) WASHINGTON, Thursday. The Government of the tJnited States to-day extended its recognition to the kingdom of Albania. The President, Mr. Coolidge, sent to King Scanderbeg (formerly Ahmed Bey Zogu) a congratulatory cablegram, expressing his pleasure at his accession to the throne, and conveying his good wishes for the future of the new monarch and his country. The Constituent Assembly of Albania proclaimed the President, Ahmed Zogu, King, on September 1. Albania was formerly a Turkish province, but it declared its independence in November, 1912, which was confirmed by the Treaty of London in December. The first King of Albania, the German Prince William of Weid, abandoned the throne in September, 1914, and the country was more or less in a state of anarchy during the war. The constitution was proclaimed in 1925 establishing a republic with Ahmed Bey Zogu as President. On being proclaimed King he took the name of ScanderbegTll.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 460, 15 September 1928, Page 9
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162ALBANIA’S KING Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 460, 15 September 1928, Page 9
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