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The Constitutional Assembly declared the end of the Kingdom of Zog and abolished the Constitution of the former monarchy, as well as offered the crown to Victor Emmanuel III, sanctioning the annexation of Albania by Italy. The Albanian state formally remained a Constitutional Kingdom under the Italian rule. <i>(In the photo: Constituent Assembly, 1939.)<\/i>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Text: <\/strong>Xhoxhi L., <i>100 years of Albanian parliamentarism <\/i>, &#8220;print-AL&#8221;, Tirana, 2021, page 40.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 Dervishi K., personal archive&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 12, 1939, after the occupation of Albania by the Fascist Italy (April 7), the so-called Constitutional Assembly was convened in Tirana, consisting of 159 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ngjarje"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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