Albanian prime minister, president and king (1895-1961) (r.1922-1939)
He ruled a country for seventeen years under three different titles — prime minister at 27, president with dictatorial powers at 29, then king — before losing it all to the Italian invasion he couldn't stop.
Born Ahmed Muhtar Bey Zogolli in 1895 to an aristocratic family in Ottoman Albania, he fought for Austria-Hungary in the First World War and plunged into Albanian politics soon after. He adopted the name Ahmed Zogu in 1922, became the youngest prime minister in Albanian history that same year, was driven into exile in June 1924, then returned with Yugoslav and White Russian backing to reclaim power. Elected president in January 1925 with dictatorial authority, he pushed through major reforms while suppressing civil liberties and tying Albania closer to Mussolini's Italy. In September 1928 the…
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