Mollow-Kaphantaris Agreement

Bulgarian refugees from Western Thrace in 1923 at Svilengrad train station

The Mollow-Kaphantaris Agreement (also Mollov-Kafandaris transcribed, Bulgarian Спогодба Моллов-Кафандарис Spogodba Mollow-Kafandaris ) was an agreement concluded on December 9, 1927 between Bulgaria and Greece . The agreement was confirmed as legally binding by the League of Nations on January 12, 1928.

The agreement bears the name of the two finance ministers Vladimir Mollow (Bulgaria) and Georgios Kaphantaris (Greece) and regulates the financial side of the property and other assets of the displaced Bulgarians (→ Thracian Bulgarians and Macedonian Bulgarians ) in Greece and the Greeks in Bulgaria the First world war and the population exchange convention between the two countries of the 1919th

The agreement proved to be necessary because the population exchange convention, in particular its provisions on compensation and reparation payments, set out in the Neuilly-sur-Seine Treaty , was not implemented. It was only with the Mollow-Kaphantaris Agreement that the greater part of the Bulgarian population of Greece was "resettled" and in their place Greeks from Bulgaria, Asia Minor (such as Pontus Greeks ), the Crimea and the Caucasus were "settled".

According to the agreement, a commission should determine ownership on both sides. As a result of the Mollow-Kaphantaris Agreement, Greece undertook to pay 1,050,000 leva to the Bulgarian displaced persons. In order to speed up payments to the refugees, Bulgaria, overcrowded with refugees from the wars ( Balkan Wars and World War) , took out a loan of 2.4 million pounds and 4.5 million US dollars through the agency of the League of Nations.

The refugees and displaced persons were to be compensated until 1956.

Individual evidence

↑ Petŭr Boev: The racial types of the Balkan Peninsula and the East Aegean archipelago and their significance for the origin of their population. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Publishing House, Sofia 1972, p. 241.

literature

Stefan Troebst: Mussolini, Macedonia and the Powers. Verlag Böhlau, 1987, ISBN 3-41201-786-8 , p. 46.

Web links

The Mollow-Kaphantaris Agreement (Bulgarian) in the legal journal Praven Swjat .

[1] Petŭr Boev: The racial types of the Balkan Peninsula and the East Aegean archipelago and their significance for the origin of their population. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Publishing House, Sofia 1972, p. 241.