In 1931, he was nearly assassinated by two gunmen as he left a performance of I Pagliacci at the Vienna Opera House.  
In 1931, he was nearly assassinated by two gunmen as he left a performance of I Pagliacci at the Vienna Opera House.  In 1938, he married Geraldine Apponyi, a postcard saleswoman at the Budapest National Museum.  He went into exile after Italy overran his country in 1939, abandoning the republican government he had formed in 1922.  After World War II, he officially abdicated after the takeover of his kingdom by Communists under Enver Hoxha.  Giving himself a royal name meaning "bird," FTP, name this Albanian leader who declared himself king in 1928.
In 1931, he was nearly assassinated by two gunmen as he left a performance of I Pagliacci at the Vienna Opera House.  
King Zog I (accept Ahmed Bey Zogu)