Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine

The Treaty of Neuilly -sur -Seine, completed on November 27, 1919 is one of the Paris suburb of treaties that ended the First World War formally. He was signed between the Kingdom of Bulgaria on the one hand and the United States of America, the British Empire, France, Italy, Japan and other Allied Powers with these countries on the other side.

Content of the contract

Bulgaria had to pay the following cessions of territory under the provisions of the contract:

• Western Thrace came under the administration of the Entente, with him also the major port city Dedeağaç (today Alexandroupolis ). Thus, Bulgaria lost access to the Aegean Sea to Greece.
• Caribrod (now Dimitrovgrad (Serbia ) ), a few villages along the Timok River and Strumiza ( Bulgarian western regions ) came to the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (SHS ), which Bulgaria had to acknowledge.
• The limit for the Peace of Bucharest Romanian-Bulgarian frontier of 1913 was restored; Romania received the assigned in May 1918 Southern Dobruja back.

Furthermore, reparations in the amount of $ 400 million were paid to, and the army was limited to 20,000 men.

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