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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]
"Историческите решения в Блед" (transl. The historical decisions in Bled), Sofia, 1947 [1]. The Bled agreement (also referred to as the "Tito–Dimitrov treaty") was signed on 1 August 1947 by Georgi Dimitrov and Josip Broz Tito in Bled, PR Slovenia, FPR Yugoslavia and paved the way for a future unification of Bulgaria and Yugoslavia in a new Balkan Federation.
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 troops in the interior of Serbia.
The Serbian government was unwilling to officially confirm this offer and Bulgaria eventually joined the Central Powers. However, by the end of the war, many Bulgarian politicians became interested in joining the newly formed Yugoslav state alongside extant Bulgarian supporters of a united South Slavic state such as Aleksandar Stamboliyski .
The Salonika Agreement (also called the Thessaloniki Accord) was a treaty signed on 31 July 1938 between Bulgaria and the Balkan Entente (Greece, Romania, Turkey and Yugoslavia). The signatories were, for the former, Prime Minister Georgi Kyoseivanov and, for the latter, in his capacity as President of the Council of the Balkan Entente, Ioannis ...
Romania and Bulgaria have become full members of the European Union’s border-free Schengen area after scrapping land border controls in the bloc. Romania and Bulgaria fully join Europe’s ...
Bulgaria joined the Axis powers on 1 March 1941, but remained passive during the invasion of Yugoslavia and most of the invasion of Greece. Yugoslavia surrendered on 17 April and Greece on 30 April. On 20 April, the Bulgarian army entered Greece and Yugoslavia with the aim of gaining access to the Aegean Sea in Thrace and eastern Macedonia.