Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine

Bulgaria Territories ceded to Greece under the Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine Territories ceded to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ("Yugoslavia")



The Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine , signed on November 27, 1919, is one of the Parisian suburban treaties that formally ended the First World War . It was concluded between the Kingdom of Bulgaria on the one hand and the United States of America , Great Britain , France , Italy and Japan and other states allied with these main powers on the other.

Content of the contract

According to the provisions of the treaty, Bulgaria had to cede the following territory:

• Western Thrace came under the administration of the Entente , with it the important port city of Dedeagatsch (today: Alexandroupoli ). Bulgaria thus lost access to the Aegean Sea to Greece .
• Zaribrod (today Dimitrovgrad ), a few villages along the Timok River and Strumiza (so-called Bulgarian West Territories ) came to the newly founded Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (SHS), which Bulgaria also had to recognize.
• The Romanian-Bulgarian border established in the Treaty of Bucharest in 1913 was restored; Romania got back the southern Dobruja , which was annexed in 1913 and ceded in May 1918 (it was then returned to Bulgaria in the Treaty of Craiova in 1940).

In addition, reparations of $ 400 million had to be paid and the army was limited to 20,000 men.

Part of this treaty was a regulation on the exchange of people between Greece and Bulgaria. Bulgaria and Greece signed a convention on mutual and voluntary emigration , which, however, did not provide for the right of return. 53,000 Bulgarians left Greece and 39,000 Greeks from Bulgaria (after the First World War, a total of 46,000 Greeks emigrated from Bulgaria).

literature

• Erik Goldstein: The First World War Peace Settlements, 1919–1925. Longman, London et al. 2002, ISBN 0-582-31145-4 .
• Björn Opfer-Klinger: The peace treaty with Bulgaria in Neuilly-sur-Seine on November 27, 1919 . In: History in Science and Education, Vol. 70, 2019, Issue 5–6, pp. 291–307.

See also

• Treaty of Sèvres with Greece on Western Thrace
• Mollow-Kaphantaris Agreement

Web links

Commons : Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Translated text of the Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine
• Original text in full version (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://fall.fsulawrc.com/collection/LimitsinSeas/IBS056.pdf (PDF; 296 kB). US State Department, 1965, p. 9.