page_title: Albanians in Serbia
section_title: Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918-1941)
hierarchical_section_title: Albanians in Serbia / History / Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918-1941)
caption_attribution_description: Shqip: Shqiptaret e debuar nga ushtria serbe, ne rruge per Turqi
context_page_description: Albanians in Serbia are an officially recognized ethnic minority living in the present-day country of Serbia.
context_section_description: With the return of the Serbian army in 1918, the forcible resettlement of Albanians, without the right to return, continued until the World War II. In the period of the Yugoslav Kingdom, the "flying units" of the army, police and Chetniks tortured and killed the Albanian population. From 1918 to 1938, the Yugoslav army burned and destroyed 320 Albanian villages. Only in the period 1918-1920, 12,346 persons were killed, 22,150 persons were imprisoned, 50,515 homes were stolen and 6,125 houses were burned. According to the data from the Institute of History in Pristina, in the period 1919-1940, 255,878 Albanian Muslims from the Yugoslav Kingdom in Turkey were generally expelled, of which:
  Albanians: 215,412
  Turks: 27,884
  Bosniaks: 2,582
  In addition to the migration to Turkey, there has been a greater relocation in Albania. According to some data, only 40,000 persons were displaced from Yugoslav areas in Albania in 1921. Apart from Turkey and Albania, Albanians have also fled to Europe and North America, and thus have created very big Albanian diaspora in those countries.
caption: Albanians refugees on their way to Turkey.
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