First Balkan War
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The First Balkan War lasted from October 1912 to May 1913 and involved actions of the Balkan League against the Ottoman Empire. The Balkan states' combined armies overcame the initially numerically in
Clockwise from top right: Serbian forces entering the town of Mitrovica; Ottoman troops at the Battle of Kumanovo; Meeting of the Greek king George I and the Bulgarian tsar Ferdinand I in Thessaloniki; Bulgarian heavy artillery
Greek artillerymen with 75 mm field gun
The armored cruiser Georgios Averof, flagship of the Greek fleet. She was the most modern warship involved in the conflict and played a crucial role in operations in the Aegean.
Ottoman troops during the Balkan Wars
Independent Albania
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Independent Albania was a parliamentary state declared in Vlorë on 28 November 1912 during the First Balkan War. Its assembly was constituted on the same day while its government and senate were estab
Albanian rebels capturing Skopje in August 1912
Situation in the Balkans during the First Balkan War, in 1914.
The main delegates of the Albanian Congress of Trieste with their national flag, 1913.
Ismail Kemal and his cabinet during the celebration of the first anniversary of independence in Vlorë on 28 November 1913