Albanian League

In full� League For The Defense Of The Rights Of The Albanian Nation, �also called �League Of Prizren, � first Albanian nationalist organization. Formed at Prizren, Serbia, on July 1, 1878, the league, initially supported by the Turks, tried to influence the Congress of Berlin, which was formulating a peace settlement following the Russo-Turkish War of 1877 - 78 and which threatened to partition Albania (then part of the Ottoman Empire) and transfer some of its districts to Montenegro,