While repelling the attacks, the Italian troops suffered from an outbreak of malaria and could not receive support as the Bersaglieri of Ancona refused to be sent to Albania, in the context of the Biennio Rosso agitations.

[6] Italian prime minister Giovanni Giolitti, considering the occupation of Vlorë pointless and unpopular, negotiated a treaty of compromise with the Albanians.

[9] Both the Albanian committee and the Italian foreign ministry claimed victory and expressed satisfaction with the agreements;[10][11] many authors do not treat these clashes as forming an actual conflict and the very concept of a "Vlora War" is rare in historiography.

[13] The conflict began on June 4 after Italian General Settimo Piacentini refused to cede control of the Vlora district to the Albanian government.

This force included the Banda e Vatrës, an Albanian military band formed in the United States that traveled by boat for 23 days to reach Durrës.

[17] The armistice, introducing a ceasefire on August 5th, contained these main points: The Treaty of Tirana was ratified by the League of Nations Conference of Ambassadors in November 1921.

Giovanni Giolitti, the Italian Prime Minister at the time, expressed his satisfaction with the treaty in these words: What really interests us is that Vallona cannot form a base of operations against us; and this aim was achieved with the occupation of the islet of Sasseno, which lies at the mouth of the bay itself... For these reasons, I decided to renounce the mandate conferred on us by the Paris Conference on Albania, which would have represented an enormous liability without any profit, and to limit our action to the diplomatic protection of Albania against the aims of other States, and to abandon Vallona, ensuring however recognition of the possession of SassenoHowever, Benito Mussolini referred to Vlora as the "Albanian Caporetto.".