The Royal Serbian Army captured city of Durazzo (Albanian: Durrës) on 29 November 1912 without facing opposition.

[3] The Kingdom of Serbia established district offices and appointed the governor of the county, mayor of the city, and commander of the military garrison.

[8] When the army of Kingdom of Serbia occupied Albania in 1912, Dragutin Anastasijević was engaged as a translator for the Greek language and, after a while, he was appointed as governor of Drač County[9] instead of Ivan Ivanić.

[15] Other atrocities took place outside of Drač, including areas in Kosovo and Macedonia, which saw greater violence.

[12] The army of the Kingdom of Serbia retreated from Durrës in April 1913 under pressure of the naval fleet of Great Powers, but it remained in other parts of Albania for the next two months.