[3][4] In Italy, he was received with honor since both Italian and Austrian representatives played roles in intrigues that surrounded the revolt.

The rebels managed to lay siege on Durrës, imprison Wied's supporters, to call for Muslim prince and to establish the Senate for Central Albania.

[7] First he travelled to Niš, Kingdom of Serbia, where he and Serbian prime minister Nikola Pašić signed the secret treaty of Serbian-Albanian alliance on 17 September 1914.

The treaty envisaged a rail-road to Durrës, the financial and military support of the Kingdom of Serbia to Essad Pasha's position as Albanian ruler and it recorded the demarcation by a Serbo-Albanian commission.

With Italian and Serbian financial backing he established armed forces in Dibër and captured the interior of Albania and Durrës.