While Romanian activity declined, from World War I on and its involvement in Albania, Italy made some efforts-not very successful-in converting pro-Romanian sympathies into pro-Italian ones.
The date of the Ottoman irade of 23 May 1905 has been adopted in recent times by Aromanians in Albania, Australia, Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia as the "National Day of the Aromanians", but notably not in Greece or among the Aromanians in the Greek diaspora.