King Ottokar's Sceptre
The events surrounding the Italian annexation of Albania formed part of the inspiration for the eighth volume of "The Adventures of Tintin" comics titled "King Ottokar's Sceptre", with a plot based on a fictional Balkan country "Syldavia" and uneasy tensions with its larger neighbour "Borduria". The author of the Tintin comics Hergé also insisted that his editor publish the work to take advantage of current events in 1939 as he felt "Syldavia is Albania".