 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Kubvira muna 1930, chikamu ichi chaive nemutoro wega wekudzivirira chikamu cheEpirus chemuganhu weGreco-Albanian. Nemhaka yokushaya simba kwechiuto kweAlbania, chikamu chacho chaiva chinyararire uye chakanga chisina kukosha zvikuru kupfuura muganhu neBulgaria. Izvi zvakachinja muna April 1939, apo Italy yechiFascist yakapinda muAlbania ndokugara imomo. Ichitungamirirwa nomukuru wayo, Maj Gen Charalambos Katsimitros, boka racho rakaita basa guru rokuvaka masvingo uye kugadzira zvirongwa zvokuzvidzivirira. Nekupinda kweItaly kwakanga kuchipinda kubva muna Nyamavhuvhu 1940 zvichienda mberi, kuunganidzwa kwakaganhurirwa kwakaitwa, uko kwakaunza divi kumusoro kusimba uye kwakatobvumidza kugadziriswazve kwe24th Regiment sechinhu chakasiyana. Ichi chokwadi, chakabatanidzwa nesarudzo yaKatsimitros yekusimbirira pakudzivirira kumberi, zvaizoratidza kuve zvinhu zvine mutsindo mukudzivirira nekukurumidza kwekutanga kweItaly huru yekupinza muEpirus. Chikamu ichi chakaiswa munzvimbo yekudzivirira yakatambanuka kubva mumusha weElaya Kalpaki kuenda kumutsetse werwizi rweKalamas, uye kwemazuva matanhatu, kubva munaNovember 2 kusvika munaNovember 8, vakabudirira kudzosera kurwisa kwakateedzana kweItaly Ciamura Army Corps. Panguva iyoyo, kuunganidzwa kwevarwi vechiGiriki kwakanga kwapera, uye pamwe chete nokukunda kwechiGiriki muHondo yePindus, kukunda kwechikamu muHondo yeElaiaKalamas kwakaratidza kukundikana kwekurwiswa kweItaly. 