THE REGULATION OF THE DOBRUDZHA QUESTION IN THE RELATIONS BETWEEN BULGARIA AND ROMANIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR (Uregulowanie kwestii dobrudzanskiej w stosunkach Bulgarii z Rumunia w okresie II wojny swiatowej)

• Authors: Znamierowska-Rakk Elzbieta
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Southern Dobrudzha, situated in north-eastern Bulgaria next to the frontier with Romania, and recognised as the perpetual land of the Bulgarians and the cradle of Bulgarian statehood, comprised one of the very important territories lost by the Bulgarians after the First World War. In contrast to the Western Borderlands (encompassing the districts of Caribrod and Bosilegrad) and the region of Strumica (Pirin Macedonia) as well as Western Thrace, which had been permanently cut off from the Bulgarian state and incorporated into Yugoslavia and Greece, respectively, the Bulgarians managed to regain Southern Dobrudzha thanks to a conducive international situation as well as the determination and skills of their diplomats. This indubitable success of Sofia's foreign policy deserves a more in-depth analysis since it constitutes a sui generis extraordinary event in international relations in Europe during the initial stage of the Second World War. The reason for its exceptional nature lies in the fact that in 1940 Bulgarian-Romanian negotiations made it possible to attain one of the chief targets of Bulgarian revisionism in conditions when the European Continent was in the throes of a war and the West was submitting to demands made by the Third Reich.

Keywords

EN

BULGARIA AND ROMANIA RELATION; DOBRUDZHA QUESTION; PIRIN MACEDONIA; WORLD WAR II

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN w Warszawie
• Journal: Studia z Dziejów Rosji i Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 43
• Pages: 117-130
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Znamierowska-Rakk Elzbieta

• Elzbieta Znamierowska-Rakk, Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN, Rynek Starego Miasta 29/31, 00-272 Warszawa, Poland

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CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA100320