site.btaNovember 6, 1920: Serbia Occupies Western Outlands as per Treaty of Neuilly

After the end of the First World War (1914-1918), the victorious Entente coalition imposed on the Central Powers a system of treaties known as the "Versailles Treaty System". Five peace treaties were drafted and concluded. The one concerning Bulgaria was concluded at Neuilly on November 27, 1919. According to the Treaty of Neuilly, the Western outlands with an area of 1,555 sq. km. and a population of 64,509 people, of whom 54,750 were Bulgarians, 8,637 - Vlachs, 549 - others and only 127 - Serbs, were cut off from Bulgaria. The claims of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (since 1929 the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) were for the towns of Vidin, Kula, Belogradchik, Breznik, Tran, Radomir, Kyustendil, Petrich, Tsaribrod (now Dimitrovgrad) and Bosilegrad with their adjacent lands. The Serbian state also claimed the territory around the town of Strumica.