Sazan island is located in the centre of the Bay of Vlora and is the largest in all Albania. Here several dominations have taken place over the centuries. The Greeks and Romans, the Byzantines and the Angevins of Naples passed first. From 1300 the island entered the possessions of some Albanian noble families, before being conquered by the Ottomans and the Venetians. In the early 1800s Sazan, together with other Ionian Albania island, became an English protectorate, to be fought over in the following years between the Greeks and the Turks. In 1914 the Kingdom of Italy placed a military command on Saseno and in 1920 the island passed to the Italians, who built a lighthouse and some fortifications there, bringing some families of Apulian fishermen to live here. Only in 1947 did the island return definitively to Albania.