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Bulgarian campaigns during World War I, borders including occupied territories A German postcard commemorating the entry of Bulgaria into the war.. The Kingdom of Bulgaria participated in World War I on the side of the Central Powers from 14 October 1915, when the country declared war on Serbia, until 30 September 1918, when the Armistice of Salonica came into effect.
In the 1912–1913 Balkan Wars, Bulgaria initially formed an alliance with Greece, Serbia and Montenegro against the Ottoman Empire, and together they conquered a great deal of Ottoman territory. Bulgaria, however, unhappy with the resulting division of territory, soon went to war against its former allies Serbia and Greece and lost territory ...
1941 June 30 — Bulgaria fully incorporates its occupied territories in Yugoslavia. [28] As the war continues, Germany allows Bulgarian troops to occupy more territory to free up forces for the Eastern Front. 1941 August 16 — The Yugoslav territories occupied by Hungary are put under civilian administration and fully integrated four months ...
As a result, the Treaty of Berlin (1878), under the supervision of Otto von Bismarck of Germany and Benjamin Disraeli of Britain, revised the earlier treaty, and scaled back the proposed Bulgarian state. The new territory of Bulgaria was limited between the Danube and the Stara Planina range, with its seat at the old Bulgarian capital of Veliko ...
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 Bulgarian occupation of Albania was an occupation of the eastern parts of Albania by the Kingdom of Bulgaria's army during World War I.It lasted from December 10, 1915, when the Bulgarian army after had occupied then Eastern Serbia, crossed the Drin river and entered Albania, [1] until September 9, 1917, when French troops captured Pogradec from the Bulgarian army.
Bulgarian troops welcomed in Strumica, April 1941. Bulgarian troops entered Yugoslavia on April 19, annexing the Western Outlands and Morava Valley on the western border with Serbia under the San Stefano Peace Treaty. In addition to the directly annexed to Bulgaria regions of Pirot and Vransko, the Germans later demanded that Bulgaria deploy ...
European diplomatic alignments shortly before the war. The Ottomans joined the Central Powers shortly after the war started, with Bulgaria joining the following year. Italy remained neutral in 1914 and joined the Allies in 1915. Map of the world with the participants in World War I c. 1917. Allied Powers in blue, Central Powers in orange, and ...