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Bulgaria–Yugoslavia relations [a] were historical foreign relations between Bulgaria [b] and Yugoslavia. [ c ] Despite some substantial unification proposals in the aftermath of the World War II , Bulgarians were the only South Slavic nation which did not join the Yugoslav federation.
Yugoslav irredentism was a political idea advocating merging of South Slav-populated territories within Yugoslavia with several adjacent territories, including Bulgaria, Western Thrace and Greek Macedonia. The government of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia sought the union with Bulgaria or its incorporation into Yugoslavia. [1]
Through the agreement, Bulgaria was imposed a number of power restrictions in the annexed lands. The annexation of Vardar Macedonia, the Aegean Sea and Morava Valley to Bulgaria was not sanctioned by a special act of the Bulgarian Parliament. On May 14, 1941, the National Assembly convened a session, at which, in the conspicuous absence of the ...
The government of the Kingdom of Bulgaria under Prime Minister Georgi Kyoseivanov declared a position of neutrality upon the outbreak of World War II. Bulgaria was determined to observe it until the end of the war; but it hoped for bloodless territorial gains in order to recover the territories lost in the Second Balkan War and World War I, as well as gain other lands with a significant ...
Bulgarian troops reentering Yugoslavia in October 1944. In September 1944 the Soviet Union declared war on Bulgaria and occupied part of the country. A coup d'état on 9 September led to Bulgaria joining the Soviets. [86] [87] A day earlier Bulgaria had declared war on Nazi Germany. This turn of events put Bulgarian divisions stationed in ...
In 1940 and early 1941, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria all agreed to adhere to the Tripartite Pact and thus join the Axis. Hitler then pressured Yugoslavia to join as well. [ 16 ] The Regent, Prince Paul , yielded to this pressure, and declared Yugoslavia's accession to the Pact on 25 March 1941. [ 17 ]
Yugoslavia's rejection of the need to move the Summit from Havana over the fear of divisiveness of such a move decisively calmed down those voices. [15] Nevertheless, President of Yugoslavia Tito, who was the sole surviving founder of NAM at the time, launched a diplomatic campaign to keep the movement independent of both blocs. [16]
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.