I stand corrected. So, prior to the Balkan Wars Buglaria controlled its "heart" as much as Serbia controlled its "heart." Barkley Rosser -----Original Message----- From: jmage at panix.com <jmage at panix.com> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Date: Monday, April 26, 1999 7:19 PM Subject: Re: Jane's Defense Weekly on Balkans
>Barkley Rosser wrote
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>> The Bulgarians held parts of Macedonia after 1878
>>until the Balkan Wars of 1912-13 when Serbia got control
>>of it.
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>Actually not, Barkley. The territory that is today's Macedonia was Ottoman
>from 1878 (indeed from the 14-15th centuries) until 1912-3. Bulgaria held
>most of it only from between the first and second Balkan Wars (that is,
>from the winter of 1912/the spring of 1913 to the summer of 1913), pursuant
>to a secret Bulgarian-Serb treaty of 1912 that the Serbs repudiated in
1913.
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>john mage
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