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  2. Bulgarian rule of Macedonia, Morava Valley and Western Thrace ...

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    Bulgarian troops welcomed in the Western Outlands in April 1941. On April 6, Germany launched an offensive in Greece, which was defeated and occupied by April 30. On April 13, Adolf Hitler issued Directive No. 27, which provided for the future occupation of Greece.

  3. The Holocaust in Bulgarian-occupied Greece - Wikipedia

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    In April 1941, the German invasion of Greece resulted in the occupation of all of the country. [5] Some Jews tried to flee via Turkey, but most were turned back at the border. [6] In mid-1941, Greece was partitioned into different occupation zones by Germany, Italy, and Bulgaria.

  4. 22 July 1943 Athens protest - Wikipedia

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    The remaining Greek territories were in Italian hands. Bulgaria officially annexed the occupied territories, which had long been a target of Bulgarian irredentism, on 14 May 1941. [2] A massive campaign of Bulgarisation was launched, which saw all Greek officials (mayors, school-teachers, judges, lawyers, priests, gendarmes) deported. A ban was ...

  5. Axis occupation of Greece - Wikipedia

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    Throughout the Bulgarian occupation zone, Bulgaria had a policy of extermination, expulsion and ethnic cleansing, [56] [57] aiming to forcibly Bulgarize, expel or kill ethnic Greeks. [58] This Bulgarization campaign deported all Greek mayors, landowners, industrialists, school teachers, judges, lawyers, priests and Hellenic Gendarmerie officers.

  6. Bulgaria during World War II - Wikipedia

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    After the failure of the Italian invasion of Greece, Nazi Germany demanded that Bulgaria join the Tripartite Pact and permit German forces to pass through Bulgaria to attack Greece in order to help Italy. The Bulgarian prime minister signed the pact on 1 March 1941; German forces crossed the Danube into Bulgaria the same day.

  7. Incident at Petrich - Wikipedia

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    The Incident at Petrich (Greek: Επεισόδιο του Πετριτσίου; Bulgarian: Петрички инцидент), or the War of the Stray Dog (Greek: Πόλεμος του αδέσποτου σκύλου), [1] was a GreekBulgarian crisis in 1925 that resulted in a brief invasion of Bulgaria by Greece near the border town of Petrich after the killing of a Greek captain and a ...

  8. Romania, Bulgaria, Greece sign deal to boost military mobility

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    Romania, Bulgaria and Greece signed a deal on Thursday to enable swift cross-border movement of troops and weapons to NATO’s eastern flank, Romania's defence ministry said. Russia's 2022 ...

  9. Balkans campaign (World War II) - Wikipedia

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    The Balkans campaign of World War II began with the Italian invasion of Greece on 28 October 1940. In the early months of 1941, Italy's offensive had stalled and a Greek counter-offensive pushed into Albania. Germany sought to aid Italy by deploying troops to Romania and Bulgaria and attacking Greece from the east.