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Incident at Petrich
The Incident at Petrich (Greek: Επεισόδιο του Πετριτσίου; Bulgarian: Петрички инцидент), or the War of the Stray Dog (Greek: Πόλεμος του αδέσποτου σκύλου), was a Greek–Bulgarian 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 sentry by Bulgarian soldiers. The incident ended after a decision by the League of Nations.
Relations between Greece and Bulgaria had been strained since the early 20th century by their rivalry over the possession of Macedonia and later Western Thrace, which led to years of guerrilla warfare between various pro-Bulgarian Macedonian paramilitaries and the pro-Greek HMC in the Macedonian Struggle (c. 1904 - 1908). Open conflict broke out between Greece and Bulgaria during the Second Balkan War (1913) and the First World War (1916–1918). The outcome of these conflicts was that Aegean Macedonia and Western Thrace came under Greek rule.
Due to the significant Bulgarian populations in both regions, they became targets of Bulgarian irredentism throughout the interwar period. Two organisations, the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation (IMRO) and the Internal Thracian Revolutionary Organisation (ITRO), based in Bulgaria, launched raids and terrorist attacks into Greek and Yugoslav territory.
Petrich was the administrative centre of the Bulgarian-held Pirin Macedonia in which, during the early interwar years, the IMRO ran as a "state within a state".
In 1923, Bulgarian Prime Minister Aleksandar Stamboliyski was murdered by IMRO following his deposition in a coup d'état. This was due to his policies of rapprochement, which were deeply unpopular with IMRO and nationalist factions in Bulgaria.
There are two versions of how the incident started.
In the first version, the incident was started on October 18, 1925, by a Greek soldier running after his dog, which had strayed across the border from Greece at the pass Demir Kapia, 3 km west of Radomir on Belasitsa (Belles). It is thus sometimes referred to as the War of the Stray Dog. The border was guarded by Bulgarian sentries, one of whom shot the Greek soldier.
In the second version, according to Greek claims, the incident was caused on October 18 by Bulgarian soldiers, who crossed the Greek border, attacked a Greek outpost at Belasitsa and killed a Greek captain and a sentry.
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Incident at Petrich
The Incident at Petrich (Greek: Επεισόδιο του Πετριτσίου; Bulgarian: Петрички инцидент), or the War of the Stray Dog (Greek: Πόλεμος του αδέσποτου σκύλου), was a Greek–Bulgarian 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 sentry by Bulgarian soldiers. The incident ended after a decision by the League of Nations.
Relations between Greece and Bulgaria had been strained since the early 20th century by their rivalry over the possession of Macedonia and later Western Thrace, which led to years of guerrilla warfare between various pro-Bulgarian Macedonian paramilitaries and the pro-Greek HMC in the Macedonian Struggle (c. 1904 - 1908). Open conflict broke out between Greece and Bulgaria during the Second Balkan War (1913) and the First World War (1916–1918). The outcome of these conflicts was that Aegean Macedonia and Western Thrace came under Greek rule.
Due to the significant Bulgarian populations in both regions, they became targets of Bulgarian irredentism throughout the interwar period. Two organisations, the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation (IMRO) and the Internal Thracian Revolutionary Organisation (ITRO), based in Bulgaria, launched raids and terrorist attacks into Greek and Yugoslav territory.
Petrich was the administrative centre of the Bulgarian-held Pirin Macedonia in which, during the early interwar years, the IMRO ran as a "state within a state".
In 1923, Bulgarian Prime Minister Aleksandar Stamboliyski was murdered by IMRO following his deposition in a coup d'état. This was due to his policies of rapprochement, which were deeply unpopular with IMRO and nationalist factions in Bulgaria.
There are two versions of how the incident started.
In the first version, the incident was started on October 18, 1925, by a Greek soldier running after his dog, which had strayed across the border from Greece at the pass Demir Kapia, 3 km west of Radomir on Belasitsa (Belles). It is thus sometimes referred to as the War of the Stray Dog. The border was guarded by Bulgarian sentries, one of whom shot the Greek soldier.
In the second version, according to Greek claims, the incident was caused on October 18 by Bulgarian soldiers, who crossed the Greek border, attacked a Greek outpost at Belasitsa and killed a Greek captain and a sentry.
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