Editing Butrint (section)

=== Modern Albania ===
In 1913, after the end of the [[First Balkan War]], Butrint was ceded to [[Greece]] but Italy challenged the decision and in the [[Treaty of London (1913)|Treaty of London]] the region was given to the newly created [[Principality of Albania]]. As such Butrint was located near the southern border of the newly established Albanian state in a largely Greek-speaking territory.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hansen |first1=Inge Lyse |last2=Hodges |first2=Richard |last3=Leppard |first3=Sarah |title=Butrint 4: The Archaeology and Histories of an Ionian Town |date=2013 |publisher=Oxbow Books |isbn=978-1-84217-462-3 |page=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q3x-AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1 |language=en |quote=First it was isolated in a no mans land on the southern border of the new republic of Albania in a largely Greek-speaking territory.}}</ref> The local Greek population was enraged and created an [[Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus]], for six months, before it was reluctantly ceded to Albania, with peace assured by Italian peacekeeping force until 1919.<ref>{{cite book| last = Hodges | first = Richard | title = The Archaeology of Mediterranean Placemaking: Butrint and the Global Heritage Industry| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=65gnDQAAQBAJ| publisher = Bloomsbury Academic| date=November 2016| page = 23| isbn = 978-1350006621}}</ref> Italy rejected the decision because it didn't want Greece to control both sides of the [[Straits of Corfu]].<ref>{{cite book| last1 = Lyse Hansen| first1 = Inge| last2 = Hodges| first2 = Richard| last3 = Leppard| first3 = Sarah| title = Butrint 4: The Archaeology and Histories of an Ionian Town| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=2X9-AwAAQBAJ| publisher = Oxbow Books| date=January 2013| pages = 2, 309| isbn = 978-1842174623}}</ref>