Balkan Pact

The Balkan Entente ( sometimes referred to as Balkan Pact or First Balkan Pact) was on February 9, 1934 closed for seven years military alliance between several Balkan countries. Parties were Turkey, Greece, Romania and Yugoslavia. The Balkan countries of Albania, Bulgaria and the northerly Hungary remained the Alliance away.

The Balkan Entente was designed as a defensive alliance. The parties mutually guaranteed the security of their borders. In particular, it was directed against the Bulgarian revisionism. But granted only against attacks from other Balkan countries protection, in case of attacks by other powers such as Italy, the Allies were not obliged to counsel.

To coordinate the cooperation of the Balkan Entente received a Permanent Council, consisting of the foreign ministers of the signatory. The Balkan Entente lost in the years 1938-1940 in importance, as the predominantly German annexation policy revised the boundaries of the Versailles system of states. On July 31, 1938, Bulgaria signed in Thessaloniki a non-aggression treaty with the States of the Balkan Entente, for which his was repealed by the Treaty of Neuilly -sur -Seine from 1919 fixed arms limitations and allowed him in return, in the previously demilitarized zone on the Greek- Bulgarian border engage. In the military clauses of this contract Bulgaria was the introduction of conscription was prohibited, limited the size of his army to 20,000 men and banned the introduction of war material. Bulgaria but did not join the Balkan Entente, it still demanded access to the Aegean Sea. The Balkan Entente met for the last time 2 to 4 February 1940 in Belgrade.