Information: - Not to be confused with the Princedom of Albania or the Albanian Principalities , which existed in the Medieval Ages . The Principality of Albania ( Albanian : Principata e Shqipnis ' or Shteti Shqiptar ) refers to the Albanian Republic during the short - lived monarchy in Albania that was headed by William , Prince of Albania and to the state after the First World War ; the monarchy was abolished in 1925 and a republic declared . The Great Powers recognized the independence of Albania in the Treaty of London in May 1913 . The Principality was established on February 21 , 1914 . Albania had been under Ottoman rule from around 1478 . The Great Powers selected Prince William of Wied , a nephew of Queen Elisabeth of Romania to become the sovereign of the newly independent Albania . A formal offer was made by 18 Albanian delegates representing the 18 districts of Albania on February 21 , 1914 , an offer which he accepted . Outside of Albania William was styled prince , but in Albania he was referred to as Mbret ( King ) so as not to seem inferior to the King of Montenegro . The first government under the rule of the House of Wied was a kind of '' princes privy council '' because of its members , who were representatives of the Albanian nobility : Prince Turhan Pasha Permeti ( former Governor of Crete and ambassador of the Ottoman Empire at Saint Petersburg ) , Aziz Pasha Vrioni , Prince Bib Doda of Gjomarkaj - Mirdita , Prince Essad Pasha Toptani , Prince George Adamidi bey Frasheri , Mihal Turtulli bey Koritza , and others . Prince William arrived in Albania at his provisional capital of Durres on March 7 , 1914 along with the Royal family . The security of Albania was to be provided by an International Gendarmerie commanded by Dutch officers . William left Albania on September 3 , 1914 following a pan-Islamic revolt initiated by Essad Pasha and later headed by Haji Kamil , the latter the military commander of the '' Muslim State of Central Albania '' centered in Tirana . William never renounced his claim to the throne . - Albanian Riviera is a coastal area in the County of Vlore, running along the Ionian Sea under the Ceraunian Mountains in Southern Albania. It should not be confused with the Albanian coastline as a whole, which includes both the Riviera, and the mostly flat coastline of central and north Albania. Traditionally, the region begins south of Llogara National Park, continues down along the coast through the villages of Borsh, Himara, Qeparo, and Piqeras, and ends at Lukove. The Albanian Riviera was proclaimed as the 2012 Top Value Destination by Frommer's. - Vlore is a coastal city and municipality in southern Albania. It is the second largest port city of Albania, after Durres. It is where the Albanian Declaration of Independence was proclaimed on November 28, 1912. Vlore was briefly the capital of Albania. - Kosovo is a disputed territory and partially recognised state in Southeast Europe that declared independence from Serbia in February 2008 as the Republic of Kosovo. Kosovo is landlocked in the central Balkan Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pristina. It is bordered by the Republic of Macedonia and Albania to the south, Montenegro to the west, and the uncontested territory of Serbia to the north and east. While Serbia recognises administration of the territory by Kosovo's elected government, it still continues to claim it as its own Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija. - Albania (; ), officially the Republic of Albania, is a sovereign state in Southeastern Europe. It has a population of 3.03 million as of 2016. Tirana is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Durres and Vlore. Albania is located in the south-western part of the Balkan peninsula, bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east, and Greece to the south and southeast. The country has a coastline on the northern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, the Adriatic Sea to the west and the Ionian Sea to the southwest where the Albanian Riviera begins. Albania is less than from Italy, across the Strait of Otranto which connects the Adriatic Sea to the Ionian Sea. - The Albanian Republic was the official name of Albania as enshrined in the Constitution of 1925. Albania became a "de facto" protectorate of the Kingdom of Italy after the signing of the Treaties of Tirana of 1926 and 1927. Albania was declared a constitutional monarchy in 1928. Upon its inception, Italy demanded to be allies with the republic. This was done largely to increase Italy's influence in the Balkans, and to aid Italian and Albanian security in their territorial feuds with Greece and Yugoslavia. - Wied was a County of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, located on the river Wied where it meets the Rhine. Wied emerged as a County earlier than many other German states. From 12431462, Wied was united with an Isenburgian County as Isenburg-Wied. Wied was partitioned twice: between itself and Wied-Dierdorf in 1631, and between Wied-Neuwied and Wied-Runkel in 1698. Via William of Albania, the House of Wied ruled the Principality of Albania in 1914. - Prince William of Wied, Prince of Albania (26 March 1876 18 April 1945), reigned briefly as sovereign of the Principality of Albania as Vidi I from 7 March 1914 to 3 September 1914, when he left for exile. His reign officially came to an end on 31 January 1925, when the country was declared an Albanian Republic. - Macedonia ( tr. "Makedonija"), officially the Republic of Macedonia (Macedonian: , tr. "Republika Makedonija"), is a country in the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991. It became a member of the United Nations in 1993, but, as a result of an ongoing dispute with Greece over the use of the name "Macedonia", was admitted under the provisional description the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (sometimes unofficially abbreviated as FYROM and FYR Macedonia), a term that is also used by international organizations such as the European Union, the Council of Europe and NATO. - Greece (' ), officially the Hellenic Republic (Greek: ' ), historically also known as Hellas ("" ), is a country in southeastern Europe. Greece's population is approximately 10.955 million as of 2015. Athens is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Thessaloniki. What is the relationship between 'principality of albania' and '31 january 1925'?
dissolved or abolished