{"id":7842,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/1970\/01\/01\/the-treaty-of-voslau\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:49","slug":"the-treaty-of-voslau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/the-treaty-of-voslau\/","title":{"rendered":"The Treaty of V\u00f6slau"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The “Treaty o<\/span>f<\/span> F<\/span>ë<\/span>s<\/span>l<\/span>au<\/span>” (<\/span>Vöslau<\/span>), a secret agreement concluded between Serbia and Greece in <\/span>F<\/span>ë<\/span>s<\/span>l<\/span>au<\/span> (near Vienna), out<\/span>li<\/span>ned the initiation o<\/span>f<\/span> a war against <\/span>Turkey<\/span>. The treaty stipulated that, <\/span>f<\/span>ollowing the war, Serbia would <\/span>acquire<\/span> Bosnia-Herzegovina, while Greece would gain Thessaly and Epirus. In prepa<\/span>ra<\/span>tion <\/span>f<\/span>or the con<\/span>f<\/span>li<\/span>ct against <\/span>Turkey<\/span>, the parties acknowledged the signi<\/span>f<\/span>icance o<\/span>f<\/span> Albania and the role o<\/span>f<\/span> the <\/span>Albanians, considering their position crucial due to the provinces they inhabited, which sepa<\/span>ra<\/span>ted the Greek and Serbian territories o<\/span>f<\/span> European Turkey. Particularly notable was the Greco-Serbian Mi<\/span>li<\/span>tary Convention o<\/span>f<\/span> F<\/span>e<\/span>bruary 28, 1868, which <\/span>f<\/span>ollowed the<\/span> treaty and speci<\/span>f<\/span>ically addressed “Albania’s contribution” to the anti-Otto<\/span>ma<\/span>n war e<\/span>f<\/span>f<\/span>orts. However, the Treaty o<\/span>f<\/span> F<\/span>ë<\/span>s<\/span>l<\/span>au<\/span> pri<\/span>ma<\/span>rily re<\/span>f<\/span>lected a tendency towards territorial expansion, aiming not only to unite areas inhabited by Serbian and Greek populatio<\/span>ns still under Turkish control but also to appropriate the lands o<\/span>f<\/span> others, particularly those belonging to Albanians. In the discussions leading up to the treaty, Serbia <\/span>sought<\/span> not only Kosovo (re<\/span>f<\/span>e<\/span>rred to as “Old Serbia”) but also Northern Albania, while<\/span> Greece aimed to expand its claims beyond <\/span>Ma<\/span>cedonia to include Epirus, which encompassed Southern Albania. <\/span><\/span>(In the photo: View o<\/em><\/span>f<\/span> the city o<\/span>f<\/span> Vöslau<\/span><\/em>, XX century.<\/em>)<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Text<\/strong>:<\/span><\/span> Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 3<\/span><\/span>, Academy o<\/span>f<\/span> Sciences o<\/span>f<\/span> Albania, “Krista<\/span>li<\/span>na-<\/span>KH”, Ti<\/span>ra<\/span>na, 2009, page 2735.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>© https:\/\/www.badvoeslau-tourismus.at\/ortschronik-bad-voeslau<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The “Treaty of V\u00f6slau” was held, a secret treaty signed between Serbia and Greece in V\u00f6slau (near Vienna).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ngjarje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11426,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842\/revisions\/11426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}