Albanian Revolt 1912

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An Albanian revolt against the Ottoman Empire in 1912 in the Kosovo Vilajet ended in an Albanian victory, overthrew the Ottoman Empire which led to the Balkan Wars and led to Albania's independence, but half of Albanian inhabited lands, including Kosovo, were left outside as a result

In fact, it was the Albanian revolt, mainly in Kosovo, that compelled the Ottoman government to grant autonomy to the territorially undefined Albania on 18 August 1912, and which in turn provoked the military phase of the Balkan alliance against Istanbul.

When the Montenegrins and Serbians attacked the Ottoman state in October 1912 they encountered weak Ottoman resistance. The only significant obstacles to Serbian advances were mounted by the Albanian units of Isa Boletini, Idriz Seferi and Bajram Curri.

Still, the Albanians were more interested in being left to their own devices than in having a national state, least of all an alien one that the Serbs imposed on them. Moreover, they were quite unprepared for the ideological implications of Serbian nationalism, which systematically dehumanized them and portrayed them as a minority in their own land.

It should be noted that the Serbian cult of Kosovo, centered on the 1389 battle, was not a central theme of Serbian nationalism - and hence a legitimizing device for the Serbian claims to Kosovo, until the 1860s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_revolt_of_1912

By Croatian Historian Ivo Banac

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Skopje After Being Freed by Albanian revolutionaries 1912

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