Timeline of Albanian history to 1993 cooperation signed with Yugoslavia; Yugoslav advisers and grain begin pouring into Albania. October<br> 26 October: Two British ships destroyed by mines off Albania's coast in the Straits of Corfu, see Corfu Channel Incident, . November<br> Albania breaks diplomatic relations with the United States after the latter withdraws its informal mission. 1947 April May<br> A United Nations commission concludes that Albania, together with Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, supported communist guerrillas in the Greek Civil War; Yugoslav leaders launch verbal offensive against anti-Yugoslav Albanian communists, including Hoxha; pro-Yugoslav faction begins to wield power. July<br> Albania refuses participation in the Marshall Plan of the
Albanian language "hekur" (iron). Some among these putative pre-IE words are thought to be related to putative pre-IE substrate words in neighboring Indo-European languages, such as "lule" (flower), which has been tentatively linked to Latin "lilia" and Greek "leirion" Lexical distance of Albanian in a lexicostatistical analysis of the Ukrainian linguist Tyshchenko(the lower figure - the higher similarity): 49% Slovenian, 53% Romanian, 56% Greek, 82% French, 86% Macedonian, 86% Bulgarian. There are some 30 Ancient Greek loanwords in Albanian. Many of these reflect a dialect which voiced its aspirants, as did the Macedonian dialect. Other loanwords are Doric; these words mainly refer