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With the unilaterally annexed territories, Bulgaria acquired 39,756.6 km 2 as follows: Western Outlands – 2,968 km 2, Macedonia – 23,807 km 2, Western Thrace – 12,363 km 2, the island of Thasos – 443 km 2 and the island of Samothrace – 184 km 2, and the total area of the state became 150,668.1 km 2. [1] [2] [3]
The Governments of Bulgaria and North Macedonia signed a friendship treaty to bolster the relations between the two Balkan states on 1 August, 2017. [29] The so-called Treaty of Friendship, Good-Neighbourliness and Cooperation was ratified by the Parliaments of the Republic of North Macedonia and Bulgaria on 15 and 18 January 2018, respectively. [30]
Macedonia (/ ˌ m æ s ɪ ˈ d oʊ n i ə / ⓘ MASS-ih-DOH-nee-ə) is a geographical and historical region of the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe.Its boundaries have changed considerably over time; however, it came to be defined as the modern geographical region by the mid-19th century.
The Serbs in particular did not agree and refused to vacate any of the territory they had seized in northern Macedonia (that is, the territory roughly corresponding to the modern Republic of North Macedonia), saying that the Bulgarian army had failed to accomplish its pre-war goals at Adrianople (to capture it without Serbian help) and that the ...
North Macedonia (/ ˌ m æ s ɪ ˈ d oʊ n i ə / MASS-ih-DOH-nee-ə), [c] officially the Republic of North Macedonia, [d] is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe.It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo [e] to the northwest and Serbia to the north. [8]
Lion holding a shield with a map of Greater Bulgaria (National Museum of Military History, Sofia.)Bulgarian irredentism is a term to identify the territory associated with a historical national state and a modern Bulgarian irredentist nationalist movement in the 19th and 20th centuries, which would include most of Macedonia, Thrace and Moesia.
Pirin Macedonia on the map of Bulgaria. Pirin Macedonia or Bulgarian Macedonia [Note 1] (Bulgarian: Пиринска Македония; Българска Македония) (Pirinska Makedoniya or Bulgarska Makedoniya) is the third-biggest part of the geographical region of Macedonia, today in southwestern Bulgaria.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, stated in June 2012 that names like "Northern Macedonia" would be completely unacceptable, since this geographical term would include Bulgarian territories, and more specifically the region of Blagoevgrad, giving rise to irredentist territorial claims by nationalist ethnic Macedonians against Bulgaria.