1 September 1928 – 9 April 1939 (formally deposed 2 January 1946)[1]
Predecessor
Himself as President
Successor
Victor Emmanuel III
President of Albania
In office
31 January 1925 – 1 September 1928
Predecessor
Office established (de facto)
Vilhelm I (de jure, as Prince)
Successor
Himself as King
Prime Minister of Albania
First term
26 December 1922 – 25 February 1924
Predecessor
Xhafer bej Ypi
Successor
Shefqet Vërlaci
Second term
6 January 1925 – 1 September 1928
Predecessor
Ilias Vrioni
Successor
Koço Kota
Born
Ahmed Muhtar Zogolli (1895-10-08)8 October 1895 Burgajet Castle, Burrel, Ottoman Empire
Died
9 April 1961(1961-04-09) (aged 65) Suresnes, Paris, France
Burial
Cimetière parisien de Thiais (1961–2012) Mausoleum of the Albanian Royal Family (since 2012)
Spouse
Géraldine Apponyi de Nagyappony
Issue
Leka, Crown Prince of Albania
Names
Ahmet Muhtar Zogolli
House
Zogu
Father
Xhemal Pasha Zogolli
Mother
Sadije Toptani
Religion
Sunni Islam
Signature
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King of Albania
1925
leader of Albania
1922-1939
Government
Republic(1925–1928)
Kingdom(1928–1939)
Royal Albanian Army
Zogist salute
Franga
Treaties of Tirana
Albanian nationalism
Creation of Bank of Albania
1928 parliamentary election
1932
1937
Battle
World War II in Albania
Italian invasion of Albania
Life in exile and death
Life in exile and death
Legacy
Legality Movement
Zogu I Boulevard
King Zog (statue)
Family
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Zog I (Ahmed Muhtar Zogolli; 8 October 1895 – 9 April 1961) was the leader of Albania from 1922 to 1939. At age 27, he first served as Albania's youngest ever Prime Minister (1922–1924), then as president (1925–1928), and finally as king (1928–1939).
Born to a beylik family in Ottoman Albania, Zog was active in Albanian politics from a young age and fought on the side of Austria-Hungary during the First World War. In 1922, he adopted the name Ahmed Zogu. He held various ministerial posts in the Albanian government before being driven into exile in June 1924, but returned later in the year with Yugoslav and White Russian military support and was subsequently elected prime minister. Zog was elected president in January 1925 and vested with dictatorial powers, with which he enacted major domestic reforms, suppressed civil liberties, and struck an alliance with Benito Mussolini's Italy. In September 1928, Albania was proclaimed a monarchy and he acceded to the throne as Zog I, King of the Albanians. He married Geraldine Apponyi de Nagy-Appony in 1938, and their only child Leka was born a year later.
Albania fell further under Italian influence during Zog's reign, and by the end of the 1930s the country had become almost fully dependent on Italy despite Zog's resistance. In April 1939, Italy invaded Albania and the country was rapidly overrun. Mussolini declared Albania an Italian protectorate under King Victor Emmanuel III, forcing Zog into exile. He lived in England during the Second World War but was barred from returning to Albania by Enver Hoxha's communist regime. Zog spent the rest of his life in France and died in April 1961 at the age of 65. His remains were buried at the Thiais Cemetery near Paris, before being transferred to the royal mausoleum in Tirana in 2012.
ZogI (Ahmed Muhtar Zogolli; 8 October 1895 – 9 April 1961) was the leader of Albania from 1922 to 1939. At age 27, he first served as Albania's youngest...
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president and the short-lived modern Albanian Kingdom with its only monarch, ZogI of Albania (1928–1939). The dynasty was founded by Zogu Pasha, who migrated...
King ZogI's mother); Leka I, Crown Prince of Albanians (1939–2011, King ZogI's son); Susan, Crown Princess of Albanians (1941–2004, King ZogI's daughter-in-law)...
2002) was Queen of the Albanians from her marriage to King ZogI on 27 April 1938 until King Zog was deposed on 7 April of the following year. Geraldine...
the nearly defenceless monarchy across the Adriatic Sea and caused King ZogI to flee. In 1941, while in Tirana, the King escaped an assassination attempt...
dictator Benito Mussolini. Albania was rapidly overrun, its ruler King ZogI went into exile in neighboring Greece, and the country was made a part of...
mother of Albania from September 1928 until her death. She was the mother of ZogI of Albania. Sadije (also write Sadijé, Sadiya or Khadija) was a member of...
head of the Ottoman dynasty from 1983 to 1994. He was the advisor of King ZogI of Albania and succeeded as head of the Ottoman dynasty on 9 December 1983...
Bey Zogu proclaimed himself "king of the Albanians" (Mbret i Shqiptarëve in Albanian). Zog sought to establish a constitutional monarchy. Under the royal...
was built before 1860 and it was the birthplace, and family seat, of King ZogI of the Albanians and also Xhemal Pasha Zogu. Jason Tomes described it thus:...
a task made somewhat easier by large amounts of British support. King ZogI was effectively dethroned; the Democratic Government barred him from ever...
Albania (at the time part of the Ottoman Empire). He was the father of King ZogI of Albania. Born at Burgajet Castle, Mati (or Constantinople), in 1860,...
Sadije Toptani, his second wife, and was the third of six sisters of King ZogI of Albania. When her brother became monarch in 1928, she and her siblings...
than two years after the liberation of the country, the monarchy of King ZogI was formally abolished, and Hoxha became the country's de facto head of...
of Albania was under the kingship of ZogI of Albania, known in Albanian as the king of the Albanians, Mbreti i Shqiptarëve. In 1925, Ahmet Zogu, was...
Dorian and Klajdi. "Me 78 vota pro, Bajram Begaj zgjidhet Presidenti i 8-të i Shqipërisë | RTSH Lajme". lajme.rtsh.al. Retrieved 2022-06-04. "Bajram...
was an Albanian princess. She was the eldest sister of ZogI of Albania. Like all of ZogI's sisters, there is a degree of confusion regarding Adile's...
hereditary governor of Mati, father of Xhemal Pasha Zogu and grandfather of King ZogI. Xhelal Pasha Zogolli was born in the Mati region of modern day Albania...
Albania was a Constitutional Monarchy ruled by the House of Zogu, King ZogI. The Anglo-Corsican Kingdom was a brief period in the history of Corsica...
currently resides in the Imperial Treasury in Vienna, Austria. In 1931, King ZogI made a very rare foreign tour and visited Vienna in an unsuccessful attempt...
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