The following publication is a digitally enhanced update of the 1976 first edition, originally published by the Institute for Balkan Studies in Thessaloniki, Greece. Since its publication this book has become a reference work for all students and scholars of Albanian History and Greek-Albanian relations. Being out of print and very difficult to find second hand, we had many requests from colleagues and younger students on where they could find and obtain the book.
In 2007 the book was also translated and published in Albanian by Agim I. Tartari without the consent of the author. Subsequent unauthorized editions published in Tirana in 2020 by the Albanian Institute for International Studies have forced the author to make the book available again through printed and e -book editions.

The 1976 first edition ends with the signing of the Protocol of Corfu on May 17, 1914, although there were many chapters left in the Greek-Albanian relations. B. Kondis had continued his research during the next two decades and expanded the timeline well into the 1920's with his extensive research on the Protocol of Kapestitsa and the subsequent recognition of the Albanian Independence in 1921. These issues have been addressed through many articles published during his tenure as Director and President of the Institute of Balkan Studies in Thessaloniki Greece. He has also written three books regarding Greek-Albanian relations, Greece and Albania in the 20th Century (published in 1996-1997 in Greek and Albanian editions), Venizelos and the Koritsa Question (published in 2018 in Greek) and a book about his grandfather bearing the same name, Vasil Kondis, who was a prominent personality working as a lawyer in Koritsa and involved in many of the events covered in the present book (published in 2022 in Greek)

There are also three separate issues that have been extensively treated by B. Kondis, the Greek Minority in Albania, the Cham Issue and "Operation Valuable", the failed attempt to overthrow Enver Hoxha's communist regime in 1949. The first two issues have been thoroughly covered in previous publications of the author published by the Institute for Balkan Studies in Thessaloniki, Greece. The latter issue is B. Kondis latest book, pending publication in Greek by Epikentro publishers.

In Addendum I, one can find material regarding the last period of the Greek-Albanian rapprochement program. Part one sheds some light on the secret agreement of January 22, 1907 between Ismail Kemal Bej Vlora and the Greek Government of Giorgos Theotokis. In part two, I have included the secret negotiations between Faik Bej Konitza, and Lysimachos Kavtanzoglou the Greek charge d'Affaires at Washington, from 1911 to 1912. Kemal and Konitza were "frenemies" with very different views on the rapprochement with Greece: Konitza favored the old concept of the Greco-Albanian dualistic state, while Kemal always envisioned an independent Albania.

In Addendum II, there is a new article regarding the origin of the demilitarized status of the Aegean Islands, which is closely linked with chapter 7. The article is based on a selection of documents from the London PRO dating from 1912 to 1913, which the author could not include in 1976 due to the technological limitations of that time.

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