Draft:Resistance in the Balkans (1939-1945)

Balkan Resistance
Part of Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II
Location Albania, Yugoslavia, Greek mainland and the Greek islands Result Allied victory Creation of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the People's Socialist Republic of Albania Start of the Greek Civil War Territorial changes Axis powers expelled from the Balkans by the end of the war in 1945
Belligerents
Germany Kingdom of Italy Tsardom of Bulgaria Hungary Government of National Salvation[1] *** Pećanac Chetniks Montenegro[2] Slovene Home Guard Balli Kombëtar (from 1943) Hellenic State	Chetniks[3] Yugoslav Partisans* LANÇ Balli Kombëtar (until 1943) {flagicon|Greece|old}} EAM-ELAS EDES Bulgaria Support: Soviet Union Yugoslav government-in-exile United Kingdom United States
Commanders and leaders
Franz Böhme {{nowrap| Günther Altenburg Wilhelm List Walter Kuntze Hermann Neubacher Alexander Löhr Pellegrino Ghigi Carlo Geloso Carlo Vecchiarelli Inigo Campioni * Mehdi Frashëri Rexhep Mitrovica Milan Nedić † Velibor Jonić	Josip Broz Tito Aleksandar Ranković Miloš Minić Koča Popović Peko Dapčević Draža Mihailović Dragoslav Račić Dragutin Keserović Veselin Misita † * Enver Hoxha Spiro Moisiu Mehmet Shehu Aris Velouchiotis Stefanos Sarafis Andreas Tzimas Evripidis Bakirtzis
Strength
1,10,5000 Italy361,000	93,000 (1943) 100,000 (1943) 800,000 (1945) ~40,000 (1944) 45,000 men of ELAS (1944) 10,000 men of EDES (1944)

Greece Yugoslavia Albania Bulgaria

Albania * Hungary * Bulgaria * Independent State of Croatia^a }}