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Although Bulgaria, in alliance with Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottomans, won military victories against Serbia and Romania, occupying much of Macedonia (taking Skopje in October), advancing into Greek Macedonia, and taking Dobruja from the Romanians in September 1916, the war soon became unpopular with the majority of Bulgarian people ...
The History of Bulgaria (The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations) (2011) excerpt and text search; complete text Archived 2020-02-15 at the Wayback Machine; Crampton, R.J. Bulgaria (Oxford History of Modern Europe) (1990) excerpt and text search; also complete text online. Crampton, R.J. A Concise History of Bulgaria (2005) excerpt and ...
Bulgaria gains Strumica, Western Thrace, and a section of the Aegean Littoral. Romania first gains from Bulgaria the port of Silistra with the Protocol of St. Petersburg of 1913 and then the region of Southern Dobruja following the Second Balkan War. With these losses, the Ottoman Empire is almost completely cut off from Europe.
1945 — End of the War — With the total defeat of Germany, the war is finally over. All territorial changes made by the Axis Powers are fully reverted, with the notable exception of Bulgaria keeping Southern Dobruja. Post-war border changes in Central Europe and creation of the Communist Eastern Bloc
Ethnic and religious makeup of Southern Dobruja as of 1930. The Treaty of Craiova finally crystallized in a return to the 1912 borders. The southern part of the Dobruja, which had been conquered by Romania during the Second Balkan War, [2] was returned to Bulgaria and assumed for Romania the loss of a territory with an area of 7,142 km 2 (2,758 sq mi) and a population of which ethnic Romanians ...
Lion holding a shield with a map of Greater Bulgaria (National Museum of Military History, Sofia.)Bulgarian irredentism is a term to identify the territory associated with a historical national state and a modern Bulgarian irredentist nationalist movement in the 19th and 20th centuries, which would include most of Macedonia, Thrace and Moesia.
The status of the Vlachs in Bulgarian territories was settled on 4 August, in Greek territories on 5 August and in Serbian territories between 5 and 7 August. The 1913 Treaty of Bucharest itself was signed on 10 August. [10] One notable aspect of this treaty was the lack of any real involvement from the European Great Powers.
Territorial expansion during the reign of Krum. During the reign of Krum (r. 803–814) Bulgaria doubled in size and expanded to the south, west and north, occupying the vast lands along the middle Danube and Transylvania, becoming European medieval great power [11] during the 9th and 10th century along with the Byzantine and Frankish Empires.