Our large corner room in a 300-year-old hotel, the Cavalieri, had huge windows facing the sea with the Albanian mountains as a backdrop.
This marked the end of the operations against the Serbian Army which continued its retreat through the Albanian mountains, losing around 55,000 men in the process.
In 1915 Bulgarian forces took the city and the Serb forces were forced to either surrender or try a dangerous escape through the Albanian mountains.
The Serbian army retreated across the Albanian mountain ranges to the Adriatic Sea by January 1916.
The Serbian Army made a fighting retreat over the Albanian coastal mountains.
Only a few miserable remnants escaped into the Albanian mountains, losing the whole of their artillery and everything else that they could not carry.
The archbishops had to reside in the Albanian mountains.
Older men were beaten for wearing the white conical hats of the Albanian mountains or forced to make the Serbian Orthodox three-fingered sign.
My Dad and four uncles fought in the Albanian mountains, successfully against the Italian invasion and then...
Rather than surrendering, the Serbian army staged a winter withdrawal, accompanied by a large civilian population, into the snowy wastes of the Albanian mountains.
