ПРИСАЈЕДИЊЕЊЕ ЦАРИБРОДА И БОСИЉГРАДА КРАЉЕВИНИ СХС 1920.
The Annexation of the Caribrod and Bosilegrad Districts to the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1920

Summary/Abstract: The victory of Serbia in the First World War and the creation of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was to be crowned by the fulfi llment of the stipulations of the peace treaties with the defeated powers. Under the stipulations of the Treaty of Neuilly Bulgaria had to renounce part of its territory, reduce its military effectives, abolish general military service and pay reparations. Apart from having to leave Vardar part of Macedonia under Serbian, i.e., Yugoslav rule, Sofi a was additionally encumbered with the obligation to hand over to the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes the towns of Strumica, Caribrod (today Dimitrovgrad) and Bosilegrad with environs. The particular feature of the latter two towns and their surroundings was that they had been predominantly Bulgarian-inhabited. After Strumica, it was Caribrod’s and Bosilegrad’s turn in 1920. The Command of the Third Army District was saddled with the task of preparing and executing the plan of annexation. Spring and summer were spent in observing the situation on the ground, reacting to news from across the border, and in making and changing plans. The electoral victory of Bulgarian agriculturalists and the change in Bulgaria’s foreign policy aimed at observation of the peace treaty stipulations, contributed to peaceful and orderly annexation of the Caribrod and Bosilegrad in autumn of that year. A little later unsatisfi ed Bulgarians of those parts founded an organization striving to return the Caribrod and Bosilegrad districts into the borders of the Bulgarian state.

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