THE COLONIZATION OF THE CADRILATER, 1913-1940
THE COLONIZATION OF THE CADRILATER, 1913-1940

Author(s): Florian BICHIR
Subject(s): History, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: Southern Dobruja (the Cadrilater); 1940; the Treaty of Craiova; Bulgarian revisionism.
Summary/Abstract: Colonization of the Cadrilater is not an isolated phenomenon in the Balkan area; rather, it must be linked with the major population exchanges that took place both between the Ottoman Empire and the new states that emerged from it, and among those successor states themselves. The aim was to create a unified ethnic majority – an idea subordinate to that of the nation-state – but also to counter external influences of the Great Powers: on one side, those of the Ottomans, whose way of life and administrative system had left a profound mark on the occupied peoples; and on the other side, those of the Western powers and of Russia, all directly interested in exerting influence in the Balkans. The population exchanges, especially between the new Turkish Republic and Greece, following the Convention of Lausanne, of 30 January 1923, did nothing more than formalize a demographic movement whose origins should be sought during the Balkan revolutions.

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