1911-1912 (Treaty of Lausanne, October 18, 1912).  The secret treaty of   
London, April 26, 1915, promised Italy full sovereignty over the   
islands.  Italian sovereignty was recognized in the treaty of Sevres,   
August 10, 1920 (Article 122) and in the reaty of Lausanne, July 24,   
                     1923 (Article 15).                     
 
                                                            
 
 
The total area of the Dodecanses Isalnds is 1,035 square miles.  The   
total population (1936) is 140,848, eighty to eighty-five percent of   
which is Greek. Without great economic significance, the islands are of   
strategic importance as stepping stones to the Asiatic mainland,   
particularly Rhodes and Leros.  For this reason their dispostion is a   
matter of interest to Turkey.  Greece claims the entire group on ethnic   
                          grounds.                          
 
                                                            
 
 
21. NORTHERN EPIRUS (SOUTHERN ALBANIA).-- This area was claimed  by   
Greece at the peace conference in 1919.  The Conference of Ambassadors,   
however, decided on November 9, 1921 to confirm the Albanian boundries   
as fixed by the Conference of Ambassadors of the six European  powers in   
London in 1913, subject to certain specified modifications to be carried   
out by a  Boundary Commission.  The boundary was definitely fixed by the  
Confernce of Ambassadors in Paris on July 30, 1926.  This area, together   
with the rest of Albania, was annexed to the Crown of Italy from April   
1939 to September 1943, when it was occupied by Germany, which   
    proclaimed the restoration of Albanian independence.    
 
                                                            
 
 
Northern Epirus has an area of approximately 2,800 square miles and has   
a population of approximately 300,000 persons, predominantly Albanian.    
Since there is an Albanian minority in some of the districts situated on   
the Greek side  of the 1926 Frontier, possible adjustments in Albanian's   
favor might be considered at he same time that the disposition of   
               Northern Epirus is considered.               
 
                                                            
 
 
22. ISLAND OF SASENO.--Saseno is a small and virtually unihabited rocky   
island situated at he entrance to the Bay of Valona.  It was assigned to   
Albania by the European Powers on 1913, and ceded by Albania to Italy in   
1920.  Its primary importance is strategic; it served Italy as a naval   
ng point on the eastern side of the entrance to the Adriatic
 
                                                            
 
 
23. REGION OF KOSOVO.-- Certain Yugoslav territories were awarded to   
         Albania (under Italian sovereignty) after          
 
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