But the POD only has to be after 1871. All a POD would have to do is get the fascists out of the army, and have an organized defence bogging down the Italians, with Britain, perhaps, smelling weakness and intervening with a blockade.
The problem is of course, that a POD in the latter quarter of the 19th century would have so many unseen butterfly effects that it could conceivably affect World War I and thus the circumstances that led to the rise of Mussolini's Fascists and their subsequent invasion of Albania. Realistically your POD needs to be in the 1920's in order to have even a chance of having a rough analog of Italy's invasion of Albania occur in TTL.
Furthermore, I think there is a misconception out there (or at least I personally was under the false impression for many years) that the Italian invasion of Albania "came out of the blue" as it were and was done as a kneejerk reaction to Hitler's occupation of the remainder of Czechoslovakia in March of 1939. Though there is some measure of truth to this point of view, it is a small one and a great deal was going on behind the scenes. Italy had been trying to get it's hands on Albania (or at least a portion of it) since prior to WWI. Throughout the 1920's and 1930's they had been using a form of economic colonization to bring the Albanian state further and further into their sphere of influence, paving the way for future incorporation into their empire. The Italians were aided in this by the Albanian people's (nobles and peasants) recalcitrance to reform, the unwillingness of foreign powers to intervene, and the Zogu government's insistence on maintaining government expenditures far in excess of what the tiny Balkan country could afford. This led to consistent deficit spending financed solely by the Italians under increasingly more restrictive loan arrangements as the 1920's and 30's progressed. Furthermore Italy began to exert more and more control over how this money was spent and as a good deal of it was spent on the gendarme/military correspondingly this as well. Had Mussolini been willing to pursue a more gradual route, Albania could have been peacefully incorporated into the Italian empire sometime in the 1940's but instead he chose to invade. The invasion of Albania was far from unforeseen, rather it was merely an acceleration of trends that had existed in some form since Albanian independence.
If only the British government had let the Albanians have a British gentleman as their king, as one Albanian faction actually requested IOTL shortly after WW1...
Two British Gentlemen were approached to become King of Albania, one far more suited than the other. Charles B. Fry the famous cricketeer is perhaps the most famous but also the least suited to the job. Though some doubt the veracity of the offer, upon examining primary documents, I do believe some kind of informal offer was made during the Paris peace treaty.
The other British gentleman, Sir Aubrey Herbert, famed traveler and constant advocate for Albania in the House of Commons is the more capable choice. Yet I fear that even he would find the task of creating an Albanian nation daunting. For even though he held fairly conservative views as an Englishman, those same views would put him on the fringe of Albanian society. Though surely he would have a base of support in the more civilized Southern and coastal communities, he would've been an anathema to the vast majority of Albanians living under the rule of tribal chieftans and traditional law.
Yet if Herbert could against all odds survive the numerous assassination attempts that would certainly follow his ascension to the Albanian throne, and somehow manage to enact enough reforms to build a stable nation out of Albania during the 1920's and 30's, would Fascist Italy still invade in 1939? I'm not so sure...