Battle of Saranda
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The Battle of Saranda took place in southern Albania between the Italians and the Greeks in 1940, as a part of World War II. The Italians had attempted an invasion of Greece, but they had been thrown back. The battle was won by the Greeks who thereby captured the southern Albanian port of Sarandë (named after the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste). The Greeks occupied part of Albanian Epirus, which was already a matter of territorial dispute between Albania and Greece.
Greek success prompted German intervention in the Balkans.
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